And There I Was Volume VI: A Backpacking Adventure In Sulawesi

Running the Gauntlet in Paradise

It was the year 2000 and the sixth of nine journeys in the And There I Was series was underway—Sulawesi—sandwiched by stays in Bali for R&R, one of only a few of Indonesia’s 14,000 islands not wracked by religious strife. More of mankind’s senseless bloodletting, there were few places left in the world where one could escape it. Bali was one. Sulawesi was not. Feel the unbearable heat and humidity of coastal Ujung Pandang, explore the culture of the Toraja pe...