To Kendari

(on pict : city of Kendari  and Kendari bay )

City of Kendari, the capital of Southeast Sulawesi province is one of the city that is quite old. It's  began when  the arrival of  Bajo and Buginese  traders at Kendari bay. They came and settled due to less favorable politics social conditions that occurred between the kingdom Luwu and the kingdom of Bone  at that time. Early history can be traced from the written scripts from a Dutch writer, Vosmaer (1839) who visited the  Kendari bay for the first time on 9 May 1831.  Vosmaer mentioned at his scripts, that the city of Kendari  at that time functioning as a trading city, port city and seat of the kingdom. In 1832, Vosmaer founded  the house of King Laiwoi named Tebau, and displaced the  Laiwoi royal palace  around the Kendari bay. During the Dutch colonial administration, the city became the capital of Kendari district Laiwoi with an area 31,402 km2.

The original inhabitants of  Southeast Sulawesi province is divided into five ethnic groups: Tolaki, Morunene, Buton, Muna / Wuna and Bajo. Most of the land area of natural forest still covered. friendliness of the people in the regions, local flora and fauna are still preserved and untouched beaches is the uniqueness of Southeast Sulawesi province.
As a trading and port  city, Kendari has several coastal tourism such as :
- nambo beach
- Karang purirano beach
- mayaria beach
- Bungkutoko isl.
- Kendari bay beach
furthermore there is also the center of handicrafts such as silver crafts, gembol crafts, and art of traditional weaving. Other sites that contained no less attractive in the city of Kendari the cultural heritage of King Sao-Sao Tomb and Japanese Tunnel which is a historical tourist sites.

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