Manado Hotels - Indonesia

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> <h2 align="center">Manado Hotels</h2> <p>Find a hotel in Manado, Indonesia. Get the best discounts on <a href="http://www.hotels-travelnow.com/asia/indonesia/">Manado hotels</a> - up to 70% off the regular rate. Make reservations online. Indonesia travel information.</p> <p>Golden Tulip Paradise Beach Resort</p> <p>Capital of Sulawesi Utara, MANADO is chiefly of interest as the departure point for spectacular diving and snorkelling at nearby Bunaken Marine reserve. You can either base yourself in Manado and do day-trips to the reefs, base yourself just outside Manado at one of the dive resorts which offer all-inclusive packages or, the cheapest but least reliable option, base yourself on Pulau Bunaken itself . Day-trips from the mainland cost from US$65 for two dives, plus US$30 for full equipment. Blue Banter, Floor 2, Novotel, Jalan Piere Tandeau (tel 0431/862135), has good equipment, facilities and dive crew.</p> <p>Downtown Manado is a couple of blocks of markets, squares and roundabouts on the north side of the city immediately below a shallow, silted harbour , with other businesses south of here along the first kilometre of Jalan Sam Ratulangi, which runs parallel to seafront Jalan Piere Tandeau. There's actually little to see here, aside from the fish market at Pasar Bersahati on the north side of the harbour. Manado's microlets converge downtown at the top of Jalan Sam Ratulangi at Pasar 45 ("Pasar Empat Lima"), an area of back-lane stalls, supermarkets and ferry agents next to the dock.</p> <p>Minahasan cooking features dog ( rintek wuuk in Minahasan, usually shortened to rw, or "airway"), rat ( tikkus) and fruit bat ( paniki), generally unceremoniously stewed with blistering quantities of chillies. Try it at Tinoor Jaya, Jl Sam Ratulangi 169, or at the cheap warung around Pasar 45 and Jalan Sudirman. For more conventional fare, there's seafood at Ria Rio, Jl Sudirman 3 and Istana Kelapa, Jalan Pierre Tendean, which also serves imported beer. The Chinese-run Green Garden, Jl Sam Ratulangi 52, does good mid-priced soups, seafood and sayur lohan (monks' vegetables), while the News Café next door serves up the best burgers in the city. Padang Raya, across from Telkom on Jalan Sam Ratulangi, serves above-average Padang meals, some of them extremely hot. You can sit down to European-style pastries and coffee at Bakeri Batavia, on Jalan Sam Ratulangi.</p> </body>