Before heading to the southern region of Sulawesi we decided to take a short pit stop in Tomohon which is about 45 minutes from Manado in the mountains. Our taxi driver took us to Happy Flower Homestay which was... well a bed and it sort of did have hot water. We wanted to hike one of the volcanoes near there called Gunung Lokon. The owner of the homestay said he would be happy to guide us up if we wished to go.
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| Danau Linaw |
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| Security at pertamina site |
We made arrangements to hike Gunung Lokon early the next morning and then went to Danau Linow which is a multi-coloured lake due to all the geothermal activity around the area. We wanted to walk from this lake to Danau Tondano which is about 3 hours. When we got to Danau Linow it was raining pretty hard so we ate some pisang goreng and had a cup of tea to wait the weather out. At about 3pm we started our walk through some beautiful little villages and a geothermal plant owned by pertamina but guarded by cow... hahahaha.
