Minahasa Journal 3 - Last day panorama

The last entry of my journal now. On the morning of the last day, I insisted that we go to my dad's village, where he was born and where the last resting place of my grandparents is. I love going there cos the weather is cool and the scenery is just beautiful.

Despite disagreeing on my choice of destination...my cousin agreed to take us there. We just had time to drive through the village, past grandpa's -now empty-house...not stopping at all...my cousin forbade me to go out of the car , as people [read : family] would recognize me [I'm the only grand-daughter, there are six grandsons.....plus...I'm the spitting image of my grandma] . If they see us, we'd be detained and risk missing our flight.

Hmm...I was going to rebel [ I wanted to see just one 'aunty' if I could !! ]...but after remembering that almost three quarters of the village had the same last name as I before my marriage....I decided my cousin was right ^___^ Besides, I was afraid to miss the flight that afternoon.

So I consoled myself by taking pictures of the beautiful green paddy fields, lovely coconut trees and blue sky with lots of white clouds drifting....I saw this one lonesome coconut tree in the middle of the rice field below [ click pix to see larger image].

On our way back, we passed Tondano Lake...it was sooo lovely !
I took these three pix ...wishing I could go out and explore ...sob.

I like looking at this pix above....so peaceful...

Below are two pix of Minahasa traditional houses...

They built them high from the ground in those days....
maybe cos of dangerous animals .

A more modern house ^^ The bottom part is closed off
and has become a parlor , I think.

We passed Lokon Mountain [above] , an active volcano.
I remember watching Mt. Lokon coughing up smoke when I was a child..

Back in Manado.....

we grabbed a bite to eat in the restaurant you see above ^^

Err...you could see from the occupants of this tank,
what kindda food is served there :)

Very nice restaurant, even though I preferred the food we ate

at the first restaurant we visited in Manado.

Hmmm...too famished to snap any pix of food....The Giant Coconut Crab that hubby and I ate...was not as I expected, but the fruit salad was yummy! My cousin drove us to the hotel, we washed, changed, gathered our stuff, checked out and went to the airport...

We went through Manado Boulevard again otw to the airport^^

Thanks for reading my journal...
hope there's some interesting things in it for you.