LA GALIGO MUSEUM INSIDE FORT ROTTERDAM

13th OCTOBER 2017 ~ This is the museum that is located inside Fort Rotterdam. The entrance fee was only 5 000 Rupiahs. It was a double-storey building which housed some interesting displays of Makasar in the past.

congkak - another shared traditional games among Malaysia, Indonesia
and even the Philippines.

I was there quite late and the lights were not bright enough for me to observe all the exhibits. I could not stay there long as I had to chase the sunset at Losari Beach right after that.

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FORT ROTTERDAM - MY FIRST HISTORY LESSON OF MAKASSAR

13th OCTOBER 2017 ~ My first real life history lesson of Makassar started at Fort Roterdam - a fortress originally built by Makassar rulers to defend the land from the Dutch East India Company back in 1634.

The buildings here looked well-kept and the paint was quite new. All the buildings here were erected by the Dutch except the single story one was built by Japanese during their occupation.

I even hired a tour guide called Yasin, a student from one of the universities here who is studying English as his major. He insisted to speak English as he felt I could understand him better than using Indonesian language. I paid him 100 000 Rupiah for the tour in the fort.

The fort was the shape of a turtle - with the head of the turtle facing the sea.

a chimney

a real secret tunnel

with Yasin, the tour guide

The architecture made me feel as if I was in the Netherlands. There was also a museum here which I decided to visit to complement my short stay in the fort.

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