SOUTH SULAWESI TOURS
Tour Code : JO - 07- SS
Tour area : Makassar - Toraja - Sengkang - Bira- Makassar
Attraction : TORAJA, BUGIS CULTURAL & WHITE WATER RAFTING
Duration : 09 Days - 08 Nights
Start - End : Makassar
DAY 1 : MAKASSAR AIRPORT - PARE PARE- TORAJA ( L.D )
- Meeting service upon arrival at the airport.
- Take an 08-hours drive up to Tana Toraja passing through Bugis villages with a few stop on the way including visiting the interior of the bugis houses which built on stilt.
- Stop at Pare-pare to have lunch.
- Afternoon, refreshment stop at Bambapuang to see the erotic mountain of Buntu Kabobong and enjoy some local cakes with traditional coffee or tea.
- Late in the afternoon arriving in Toraja land, directly check-in at the hotel for your overnight stay and dinner.
DAY 2 : FULLDAY TORAJA TOUR ( B.L.D )
- Breakfast at hotel.
- Exploring Toraja: the Land Full of Surprises. First to Lemo, a cliffside burial site with effigies up on balconies.
- Visit Sangalla’ to see baby graves in a big tree.
- Visit Suaya, the royal burial site of Puang Sangalla’ where you can see all kinds of graves existing in Tana Toraja from the ancient to the present time.
- Lunch en route, visit the Ke’te’ kesu’ traditional village with rows of traditional tongkonan houses and granaries and hanging graves. Back to the hotel in the afternoon.
- Dinner and stay overnight at hotel.
DAY 3 : FULLDAY TORAJA TOUR ( B.L.D )
- Breakfast at hotel.
- Full day exploring Tana Toraja; the Indonesia’s Mountain Eden.
- Visit Sadan village, the Toraja weaving center.
- Visit Pallawa, a spectacular traditional village with rows of tongkonan houses and traditional granaries.
- Visit Bori, a burial place with megaliths which are the remains of the Torajan ancient stone cultures.
- Lunch en route, visit Nanggala, a traditional village with thousands of bats up on the bamboo trees, and a traditional tongkonan house with a human skull on top of it.
- Afternoon, back hotel and stay overnight.
Note : A traditional funeral ceremony which can be reached by foot will be included within two days Toraja tour. A typical torajan local fruits & live stuff market can also be visited during your two days tour in Toraja Land.
Day 4: RANTEPAO - RAFTING ( B.L.D )
- Drive to the starting point of Rafting.
- Trek alongside the river, passing remote Torajan villages.
- Camp riverside while your Guide prepares the lunch.
- Enter the river again above Class IV rapids for a day of world class whitewater rafting.
- Mountains tower 2,000 feet above.
- More than 20 sets of rapids end in a narrow gorge.
- Overnight at the local houses.
Day 5: RAFTING TORAJA( B.L.D )
- A day packed with Class III and IV whitewater action, sweeping wave trains, swift technical rapids, challenging flush through and a few relaxing floats.
- Back to Rantepao for your overnight stay and dinner.
DAY 6: TORAJA - SENGKANG - LAKE " TEMPE"( B.L.D )
- Breakfast at hotel.
- Take a four-hour drive to the silk city of Sengkang.
- Stop by Bambapuang for a refreshment to see the erotic mountain of Buntu Kabobong once again.
- Early afternoon, check-in at the hotel.
- After lunch, enjoy boat ride on the lake Tempe to the floating villages.
- Witness the the locals doing their daily activities on the lake.
- Evening, enjoy dinner in a traditional-bugis-nobel style where we are served by boys and girls in traditional dresses.
DAY 7 : SENGKANG - BIRA ( WHITE SANDY BEACH ) ( B.L.D )
- Breakfast at hotel.
- Proceed to Bira with some picture stops on the way and main stop is lunch en-route.
- After passing through some typical villages of bugis-makassar. You will be arriving at the edge of south sulawesi island which is very famous for the local people who build the traditional wooden-sailing-boats at Tana Beru.
- Afternoon arrive at Tanjung Bira and Check-in directly at the hotel.
- Free at leisure while witnessing the beautiful sunset from the Bira beach.
- Dinner and stay overnight at hotel.
DAY 8 : BIRA - MAKASSAR ( B.L.D )
- Breakfast at resort.
- Drive back to Makassar with a stop at Tana Beru boat-building center to watch the boat masters building huge traditional Pinisi boats in traditional way.
- After lunch en-route, we proceed to Makassar city.
- Evening, enjoy seafood dinner at the famous sea-food restaurant in Makassar city.
- Stay overnight at hotel.
DAY 09 : MAKASSAR - AIRPORT - OUT ( B )
- Breakfast at hotel.
- A short city tour in Makassar city , visiting the sea-shell collection & orchid garden, fortress, sailing harbour and lunch at sea-food restaurant.
- On time transfer to Airport for your next destination ( noon flight )