1 The sacred lakes
Sometime around 1.5 million years ago, the Tondano super-volcano blasted itself into oblivion, creating the beautiful 11-kilometre-long Lake Tondano – spiritual heartland to the Minahasa people. The lake provides sustenance for countless Minahasan communities that live from rice-planting, fish-farming and duck-ranching (and even from diving for eels).
What the sulphurous waters of
