Toraja – Bugis – Bulukumba(7days/6nights)

Upon arrival in Makassar airport, we will meeting service, and we take an eight-hour drive up to Tana Toraja passing through Bugis villages with a few stops on the way including visiting the Rammang Rammang area where mountainous KARST, and on the way, there can take the Motorize Canoe to go and back to Rammang – Rammang with beautiful panorama and Mangrove plant after that can visit the interior of the Bugis houses which built on stilt. Stop by Pare-pare for lunch beside enjoy the Panorama to Pare pare city, at a beautiful seafood restaurant located up on a hill with a sea view. 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.

The morning after breakfast, explore Toraja: the Land Full of Surprises. First, we visited Lemo, a cliffside burial site with effigies perched on balconies. Then to 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 past to the present. After lunch en route, visit the Kete Kesu traditional village with rows of traditional Tongkonan houses and granaries and hanging graves, and we'll be back at the hotel in the afternoon. And We'll have dinner and spend the night at the hotel in the evening.

After breakfast, go to Bori to see the Megalithic Stones, a special place for the noble class to hold funeral ceremonies, and then to Pallawa, a traditional village with many Toraja houses with granaries and beautifully carved walls surrounding the house. Then back to the hotel in the afternoon.

N.B.: If there is a funeral ceremony during your 2 days trip that can be reached by car or foot, our guide will show you this kind of ceremony.

You'll depart early in the morning for Sengkang, stopping in Bambapuang, Sidrap, and the farmed rice fields of South Sulawesi. Once there, you'll embark on a tour of Buginese home industries along Tempe Lake to see demonstrations of traditional silk weaving. Arrive in Sengkang, check in at the hotel, then take a boat to the middle of the lake to see the floating houses built by local people and their lives, as well as many different birds. After that late noon, we will back to the hotel.

After breakfast, we will leave from Sengkang for Bira. On the way, we can see traditional houses of the Buginess people, and before we arrive in Bira, we will stop to see the local people make some New Traditional Boats in Tana Beru. Many people from Europe also come to order this Boat and make the Cruise to the island where the diving spot is, then continue to Bira and check in at the Bungalow Hotel.

After breakfast at the hotel, we will take a fishing boat to Liukang Island to enjoy the coral and various types of fish. After that, walking to see the fisherman village in that island which famous by traditional hand weaving. Before returning to Bira, take a moment to enjoy the white sand beach. 

After breakfast at the hotel, you will depart for Makassar to Hasanuddin Airport for a 5-hour drive, with stops in Bantaeng, Marina Beach, and Jeneponto, as well as a salted farm and some kind of fruit along the way, arriving in Makassar in the afternoon and being transferred to the airport.