Two (para) medics ready to climb a "Bendi" , the traditional local transport, Tomohon, Sulawesi, Indonesia.
Wikipedia: Tomohon is a city in North Sulawesi Province (Sulawesi Utara), in central Indonesia. It covers an area of km2, and had a population of 91,553 at the 2010 Census; the latest official estimate (as at 1 July 2019) is 107, was formerly a part of the Minahasa Regency in North Sulawesi, but it officially became a city separated from the Regency, inaugurated on August 4, 2003. Tomohon is known for flower planting at people's homes. Nearby is the volcano Gunung Lokon or Mount Lokon and Mount Empung. Tomohon is also known for wooden-house production, palm-sugar (aren ) production, vegetable agriculture, as a center of Christian Ministry, and as a student town. Tomohon has been written of in several historical records. One of them was found in the ethnographic works of Reverend Nicolaas Graafland, written on Queen Elizabeth Ships on January 14, 1864. He described a heart-capturing country on the Minahasa highland in Northern Celebes (Sulawesi) called Tomohon that he had visited in 1850. The development of civilization and the dynamics of development and social implementation from year to year made Tomohon one of the capital districts in the Minahasa regency. In the beginning, Tomohon was a district of the Toumbulu people located in northwestern Minahasa, which consists of Talete, Kamasi, Paslaten, Kolongan, and Matani. In 1880, the Sarongsong district were united into Tomohon, and Kakaskasen district combined in 1908. In 1927, Tomohon was integrated into Manado as a subdistrct, and in 1935, Tombariri district combined with Tomohon subdistrict under the Manado district. In 1945, Tomohon was separated from Manado and again became the Tomohon district with two subdistrict: Tomohon and Tombariri. During the Permesta between March 1956 and October 1961, some of the Tombariri combined to Tomohon. In 1974–2003, Tomohon was a district under the Minahasa Regency In the early decades of the 2000s, people in some parts of the Minahasa regency
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Location: Tomohon, North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Photo credit: © Bert de Ruiter / Alamy / Afripics
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