DAY 1: MAKASSAR – RAMMANG RAMMANG – SENGKANG
Included: car, driver, fuel, parking fees, boat with boatman and guide in Rammang Rammang, short trek in Rammang Rammang, accommodation in Sengkang
Excluded: meals
After pick-up at hotel, you will visit Rammang Rammang. Here you take a beautiful boat ride and make a short hike through the village, caves and limestone mountains.
Then we continue the drive to Sengkang, where you will be dropped off at your hotel.
DAY 2: SENGKANG – LAKE TEMPE – RANTEPAO (B)
Included: breakfast, car, driver, fuel, parking fees, boat with boatman and guide in Lake Tempe, accommodation in Rantepao
Pick-up after breakfast and cruise through Lake Tempe with a guide to see the floating houses.
Then, we return to the car and drive to Rantepao with a few stops in between to stretch legs (ask your driver to stop at interesting sites).
DAY 3: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SOUTH (B)
RANTEPAO >> LEMO – KAMBIRA – TAMPANG ALLO – LAMPIO – BEBO & KARUAYA – KETE’ KESU >> RANTEPAO
Included: breakfast, guide, car, driver, fuel, parking fees, entrance fees, accommodation in Rantepao
Visiting the Southern area will feel as if a cultural documentary has been brought to life. These are the must-sees of Tana Toraja.
Typically we will visit Lemo, Kambira, Tampang Allo, the weaving village Lampio, and the burial site in Kete’ Kesu. If there is time we could also visit the animistic villages Bebo and Karuaya.
Perhaps the best known and most crowded burial site in Toraja. The sheer rock face has a series of balconies with tau tau, wooden statues of the dead persons inside the graves.
The most famous baby grave site in Tana Toraja. Torajans from Kambira would carve a hole into the trunk of a Jackfruit tree and place the baby in it. Over time the living tree would grow around the hole sealing the baby into the trunk. Unfortunately, the trees have died by now. This somewhat dark site holds around 20 deceased infants.
Perhaps the least known of the fabulous must-sees in the Southern area: A beautiful, natural cave that has been used in the past as burial site, and where you find tau tau and some human bones.
Lampio is a traditional weaving village in Toraja. It is the authentic equivalent to the touristic and commercial Sa'dan village.
Bebo and Karuaya are traditional villages, where the villagers still have a traditional, animistic belief. The walk from Bebo to Karuaya takes around 45 minutes, in which you see both traditional Torajan houses and beautiful nature
Classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, this is perhaps the best known traditional Torajan village and very close to Rantepao. It is renowned for its traditional tongkanan houses, rice barns and its hanging graves. Also, there are a few scenic trekking options from here.Day 4: Trekking to Salu Village (B L D)
Rantepao >> Pana – Kata – Sumpiak – Lolai – Bela – Salu
Included: guide, car and driver for drop-off, long trek (Kata – Salu), overnight at Salu, meals as mentioned
After breakfast, you are picked up and dropped off at Panaa. We visit the old stone grave, and then start our scenic day trek. We pass Kata – located in the middle of rice fields – and then continue to Sumpiak .
After the mountain village Lolai we go through the bamboo forests, cacao and coffee plantations to eventually arrive at our final destination: the remote, traditional village Salu.
Here, we’ll meet the villagers, have diner, and spend the night in a local house.
DAY 5: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NORTH (B)
RANTEPAO >> LOMBOK PARINDING – BORI – PALAWA – TINIMBAYO – BATUTUMONGA – LOKOMATA – KATA – KAYURAME >> RANTEPAO
Included: breakfast, guide, car, driver, fuel, parking fees, short trek (Loko Mata – Kata – Kayurame), entrance fees, accommodation in Rantepao
After breakfast, we are picked up by car to explore the scenic Northern part of Toraja.
We visit the stone graves and rice burns in the village Lombok Parinding, the megalithic stones in Bori, and the traditional village Palawa and Tinimbayo.
Lunch will be served in Batutumonga, where you enjoy a beautiful panorama. After lunch, we drive to Lokomata to see the boulder grave.
At Loko Mata we start our scenic trek of 2-3 hours through rice fields, bamboo forests, cacao and coffee plantations, until we arrive at Kayurame village, from where we return by car to Rantepao.
DAY 6: RANTEPAO – EROTIC MOUNTAIN – PAREPARE – MAKASSAR (B)
Included: car, driver, fuel, parking fees
Excluded: accommodation in Makassar, meals
Pick-up at your hotel at an agreed time, and transfer to Makassar (8-9 hours) with a few short stops in between, such as at the Erotic Mountains and at Parepare.
Suaya. Seven royal families from Sangalla are buried at this famous and relatively quite burial site. The wooden effigies tau tau are in balconies that are cut in the large rock face.
