While in Makassar, many of us would take the opportunity during those free afternoons to shop in shops near our hotel. There were many shops selling gold behind our hotel but if you take time to scrutinise, you'd find some interesting souvenir shops around, selling cheap artifacts but if that does not interest you, perhaps, you'd want to buy a batik shirt or two from a batik shop or perhaps, some jamus, too from where else but a jamu shop. Jamu or Djamu, is a traditional herbal medicine made from natural materials, such as the roots, leaves and bark of plants. Shopping apart, you'd have to take time off for food, too and in the case of my companions and I, we would always stopped at a coffeeshop a few doors away from our hotel where we would have some noodles and dessert. The lady who served us was a fair lady who looked very Chinese. She called herself Mary.Do you think these dishes are Chinese?
Traveling Tip: Shop, Eat and Drink!Sulawesi Surprise! is coming to an end!