A good sense of direction, an eye which can catch all the alien road signs and the knowledge to decode the alien road signs....and ofcourse an SUV....is all what u need to venture out on the roads of Makassar on a rainy night!!!


Makassar is the provincial capital of South Sulawesi....for all practical reasons it can be called the capital of Sulawesi island...

Well coming back to hitting the roads on a rainy night....all the above mentioned do not help!! its the parking guy, becak guy (indonesia rickshaw) and anak jalan (16 yr old kid with a guitar playing assorted kind of music) who helps you!!

So far my experience has been very pleasant given that i get to sit inside an SUV and not inside a pete-pete....Pete-petes are a kind of indonesian public transportation which are roughly equal to Indian share autos...they roughly follow brownian motion and what goes on a pete pete driver's mind can only be guessed by a scientist working on random variables and probability distribution....it is highly improbable that a pete pete on any given day doesnt knock off one of the anak culia (college kid) of his motor bike.....

Another form of famed indonesian road public transportation is Ojek....Ojek's are two wheeled taxis....these two wheelers look like our scooty in india.... these are the most comfortable and the most dangerous kind of transportation available in Indonesia....can take to any nook and corner of your desired destination and are very easy to find as well.....they dont even follow brownian motion....they most probably assume that they live in a world of 4 dimensions or maybe even a n dimensional world...where n is greater than 6...

And yes ofcourse air transportation and water transportation are other forms of favorite transportations here.... what with flights to villages located atop a hill...where the only other available mode of transportation are ponies!!

so much for the transportation systems!!!