TOGIAN ISLANDS AN UNKNOWN PARADISE

The name Togian ( or Togean ) islands sounded foreign to my ears. When hearing the name for the first time. I thought it was somewhere outside of Indonesia. After doing some research on Google, I found out that the Togian islands lie in the Gulf of Tomini, off coast of Central Sulawesi. The trip to Togian was not an easy one. From Jakarta we were to fly to Palu, the capital of Central Sulawesi. We then would take a 12-hour road trip to Ampana before taking a 5-hour boat trip to the Togian Islands. However, our expectation that our trip would be tiring was shattered when we arrived at Palu's Mutiara Airport: a majestic rainbow welcomed us. That rainbow was just the first of many rainbows we saw during our visit to Togian.