Gorontalo: Gateway to North Sulawesi
Occupying prime rice growing real estate on a fertile, plain, the Gorontalo region boasts a rich local culture, historical remains and handicrafts, magnificent scenery, an extensive 600-kilometer-long coastline, rare endemic fauna and flora, panoramic mountains, forests and valleys and numerous other natural attractions.
April 25, 2017
Most travelers who visit North Sulawesi usually fly out without visiting Gorontalo, even though it is connected to the rest of the elongated horizontally-shaped northern Minahasan peninsula by road. No matter from which direction you arrive--from Ampana in the south or from Bunaken in the north--it is a welcome place to recover from the punishing overland journey.
Located on the province's south-central coast, Gorontalo city is the second largest
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