DAY 1: MAKASSAR – RAMMANG RAMMANG – RANTEPAO
Included: car, driver, fuel, parking fees, boat with boatman in Rammang Rammang, short trek in Rammang Rammang
Excluded: accommodation in Rantepao, meals
After pick-up at your hotel (or airport), 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 Rantepao, where you will be dropped off at your hotel.
DAY 2: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE SOUTH
RANTEPAO >> LEMO – KAMBIRA – TAMPANG ALLO – LAMPIO – BEBO & KARUAYA – KETE’ KESU >> RANTEPAO
Included: guide, car, driver, fuel, parking fees
Excluded: accommodation in Rantepao, entrance fees to sites, meals
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 3: Trekking to Salu Village (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 4: HIGHLIGHTS OF THE NORTH (B)
RANTEPAO >> LOMBOK PARINDING – BORI – PALAWA – TINIMBAYO – BATUTUMONGA – LOKOMATA – KATA – KAYURAME >> RANTEPAO
Included: guide, car, driver, fuel, parking fees, short trek (Loko Mata – Kata – Kayurame), breakfast Excluded: accommodation in Rantepao, entrance fees to sites, meals
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 5: RANTEPAO – LAKE TEMPE – SENGKANG
Included: car, driver, fuel, parking fees, boat with boatman
Excluded: accommodation in Sengkang, meals
Pick-up in the morning, and transfer to Sengkang. We make a stop at Bambapuang for a refreshment and to see the erotic mountain of Buntu Kabobong.
You check-in at your hotel in Sengkang and after lunch you visit Lake Tempe. Here, you take a guided boat cruise through the lake to see the floating houses. Then, we return to your hotel in Sengkang.
DAY 6: SENGKANG – BUGIS VILLAGES – BIRA
Included: car, driver, fuel, parking fees
Excluded: accommodation in Bira, meals
Pick-up in the morning, and transfer via the Bugis Villages and through a scenic landscape to Tanjung Bira.
You check-in at your hotel, and have a free program to enjoy the beach or the sunset.
DAY 7: BIRA – TANA BERU – MAKASSAR
Included: car, driver, fuel, parking fees
Excluded: accommodation in Makassar, meals
Free program in the morning, and then we start our return. We stop at Tana Beru. Here we will visit the boat-building center to see how the big, traditional Pinisi boats are built. After lunch enroute, we proceed to your hotel in Makassar. End of program.
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.
