{"id":46,"date":"2007-07-06T20:21:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T18:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southeastasia.fr\/blog-de-voyage\/2007\/07\/06\/les-%e2%80%9cmikrolets%e2%80%9d-de-manado\/"},"modified":"2018-11-05T04:53:51","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T03:53:51","slug":"sulawesi-mikrolets-manado","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/sulawesi-mikrolets-manado-20070706\/","title":{"rendered":"The "mikrolets" of Manado"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is with regret that I leave today my nice bungalow with a view from Divers Lodge<\/a>. At the same time, I am not angry to break with the isolation of the resort, to find \"real life and real people\". Back to Manado, so, for a one day stopover, the time to book my plane tickets for the Toraja country and to organize my trip to the Togian islands.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, I go to cool in the nearby mountains, Tomohon<\/strong>at the foot of the volcano Lokon<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"The — In Manado, everyone moves in "mikrolet".<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
I moved to the hotel Minahasa<\/strong>, on the big Sam Ratulangi Boulevard, trusting me Lonely Planet<\/em>. I was wrong... The \"standard\" rooms, which are still worth 135 000 Rp (a little more than 10\u20ac) without counting the 10% of government tax, are dilapidated, sad and noisy.<\/p>\n
The \"deluxe\" rooms, small bungalows located in a nice garden at the back, seem to be much more pleasant, but well, it's still going to cost 215 000 Rp (+ the famous 10%) and moreover, they are doing some works in their new building above. Not good.<\/p>\n
Too bad, for one night, I keep my rupees and I opt for the \"standard\". They kindly invite me to enjoy the brand new swimming pool, but I don't feel like swimming under the workers' eyes. And then I have much more urgent things to do: go to the travel agency **Star Express<\/strong><\/a>recommended by Christiane, for my plane tickets.<\/p>\n**
$\"View$ <\/a>
View of Manado from the Minahasa Hotel. At the bottom, the blue triangle of Manado Tua, the volcano island located just next to Bunaken.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
That's where it gets tricky. To get around Manado, as everywhere in Indonesia, there are the mikrolets <\/em>(also called bemos<\/em> in other corners). Light blue minibuses, which criss-cross the streets in an incessant ballet, which you stop where you want with a wave of the hand and from which you get off where you want.<\/p>\n
*The trick is to know which mikrolet to take, when you only have a very vague idea of the geography of the city...<\/p>\n*
The young lady at the hotel reception wrote down on a piece of paper the names of the directions I have to take, but I'm a bit lost. If I understood everything correctly, I have to get off at a crossroads, at the end of the boulevard, towards the north, to take another mikrolet to the terminal *Paal 2<\/em>... With that, you have to fend for yourself.<\/p>\n*
Fortunately, the passers-by are more than helpful and help me to stop a mikrolet going in the right direction. The driver calls out the window to one of his colleagues at a crossroads full of blue minibuses. He signals me to get off and get into the other one.<\/p>\n
Great! A few minutes later, this one drops me off right in front of my agency. It's great, the mikrolets! And cheap: 1 700 Rp the race in Manado... not even 15 cents of euros.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Back to Manado for a one-day stopover, time to book my plane tickets to Toraja country and organize my trip to the Togian Islands. I learn how to get around in a mikrolet, the blue minibuses that criss-cross the city...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tpgb_global_settings":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[26,42,49,106],"class_list":["post-46","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-voyage-sulawesi-indonesie-2007","tag-indonesie","tag-sulawesi","tag-ville","tag-hotel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mikrolets.jpg?wsr","tpgb_featured_images":{"full":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mikrolets.jpg?wsr",600,450,false],"tp-image-grid":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mikrolets-700x700.jpg?wsr",700,700,true],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mikrolets-250x250.jpg?wsr",250,250,true],"medium":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mikrolets-390x293.jpg?wsr",390,293,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mikrolets.jpg?wsr",600,450,false],"large":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/mikrolets.jpg?wsr",600,450,false],"default":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/plugins\/the-plus-addons-for-block-editor\/assets\/images\/tpgb-placeholder.jpg"},"tpgb_post_meta_info":{"get_date":"6 July 2007","get_modified_date":"5 November 2018","category_list":{"category":[{"term_id":54,"name":"Indon\u00e9sie : Sulawesi - juillet 2007","slug":"voyage-sulawesi-indonesie-2007","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":54,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Voyage d'un mois sur l'\u00eele de Sulawesi (C\u00e9l\u00e8bes) en Indon\u00e9sie. 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