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At the base of the northern peninsula and the mouth of the Palu Valley, PALU sits in one of the driest areas in Indonesia, surrounded by fields of bleached brown grass and prickly-pear cactus. There's little to do here save getting a connection to the beaches at nearby Donhhala. Palu's centre is a small area on the eastern bank of the river around the junction of Jalan Sudirman and Jalan Hasanuddin, which crosses west over the river into a commercial district along Jalan Gajah Mada and Jalan Bonjol. For an insight into the region, catch a microlet southwest of the centre to the Museum of Central Sulawesi (Tues-Sun mornings; Rp200) on Jalan Sapiri, whose front lawn has full-sized concrete copies of Lore Lindu's megaliths. Inside, you'll find ceramics, bark cloth, and some beautiful local silks. There are also wooden coffins and clay burial jars from the Poso Valley's Pamona population.
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