After meeting at the airport, directly 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 by Pare-pare to enjoy lunch at a beautiful sea-food restaurant located up on a hill with sea view. In the 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.
Morning after breakfast, exploring Toraja: the Land Full of Surprises. First visit Lemo, a cliff burial site with effigies up 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 ancient to the present time. After lunch en route, visit the Ke’te’ kesu’ traditional village with rows of traditional Tongkonan houses and granaries and hanging graves. Finally, after tour for the day back to the hotel in the afternoon.
Morning after breakfast, We have another fullday 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. After 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.
Morning after breakfast, 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.
Morning after breakfast. Go to look how to make silk weaving and continue to Bira with some picture-stops on the way and main stop is lunch enroute. 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.
This day is free program , possible diving or snorkling or just swim. Other possibility visit Liukang Island for local people life and fisherman. Afternoon back to Bira.
Morning after breakfast, 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 continue drive to Makassar, Check in at Hotel.
After breakfast at hotel. A short city tour in Makassar city, visiting fort Rotterdam, sailing harbour in Paotere and Somba Opu where you can see many Traditional houses standing there and this is the old Fort also in Sulawesi by the Gowa Kingdom, lunch at sea-food restaurant. On time transfer to Airport for your next destination (noon flight).
