Makassar

In October 10, 2015^th I went to Makassar with my family. Makassar, also known as Ujung Padang, is a port city on eastern Indonesia’s Sulawesi island. It is the provincial capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. It is the largest city on Sulawesi Island in terms of population, and the fifth largest city in Indonesia after Jakarta, Surabaya, Bandung, and Medan.

 It was my first time going there and flying on a plane so it’s pretty exciting and such a memorable.

I went to Makassar to attend my cousin’s wedding. To go there it had made me skipping school for few days because it wasn’t on holidays season when I was going. I stayed there for 5 days at one of the hotel in Makassar called Sahid Hotel. 

The hotel was actually where the wedding party's going to be held. I think the hotel was quite nice and there was a mall right next to it. so I don't need to ride a "pete-pete" (it's what they call for the public transportation there)

The first day I was there, I didn’t go to anywhere, I just stayed at my hotel room and resting. 

On the second day, I went to Pangkep, it’s the bride’s house. It took us one hour from the hotel to get there. My cousin and I was chosen to be the bride’s maids. It’s such an honor for both of us because we had to wear one of it’s traditional bridal clothing, its also tiring cus we had to wear heels.

 On the third day, I went to the Losari Beach and it was really sunny that day I got few sunburn. When were at the we took lots of pictures together, it was really fun.

 After we went to the beach, we went to a restaurant to have lunch together with all the big family. We ate seafood for lunch because the restaurant was near at the beach. The food was delish! :9

It was actually the big day for the brides. It was the day where they held the wedding party. And OMG, the decoration was AMAZING. I loved every single of it.

 It was all red with some gold accent too, it was beautiful.

On the fourth day, I went to Bantimurung it’s basically a butterfly park and it has waterfall too! There were few caves too. 

I wanted to go inside the cave, but was too tired to walk and hike so my cousins and I only walked half way there to the cave 

and we took some cool pictures of ourselves (lol :p).

 I went there to see beautiful butterflies (obviously). But I went there in a wrong season so all the butterflies were hiding :c I was a bit upset but it was such a cool experience to visit Bantimurung. I bought a butterfly keychain with my name written on it and I also got a frame with 3 dried butterflies while I was there.

 In our way back to the hotel we stopped at the gift shop, to buy some gifts for my family who wasn’t available to come here and for my friends and also my teachers in school. 

As soon as I arrived at the hotel, I jumped in to the bed and resting for a while. When night comes, I packed all my stuff and my luggage because I have to leave in the tomorrow afternoon.

On the fifth day, it was the last day in Makassar it was kinda sad to leave this place, I pretty much enjoyed being here but I still have exams to take at school so I had to go back to Jakarta.

Types of tourism from my experience:

1. Geography: Regional Tourism 

Makassar is one of the cities in Indonesia. I originally live in Jakarta.

2. Time : Occasional 

There was an event, my cousins wedding party that I had to attend

3. Goals: Vacational 

Not only to attend the wedding party but I also went to visit some places in Makassar and stayed there for 5 days.

4. Object: Social 

I went to Makassar to attend my cousins wedding party