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- Apr 1, 2024, 10:21am
- ☁️ 29 °C
- Altitude: 9 m
- Indonesia South Sulawesi Lantang -4.9328, 119.5972224°55’58” S 119°35’50” E
Day 18
Boat trip going back in time
April 1 in Indonesia ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
Budi and Fikri (the project organiser) hired a car to take us up to Rammang Rammang, a region in the Bantimurung- Bulusaraung National Park.
This area can only be accessed by small boats. This keeps tourist numbers down and reduces the impact on the region. It felt like going back in time to when river travel was the only way to get places. There are still villages within the park with houses dotted along the river bank.Read more
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- Apr 1, 2024, 10:54am
- ☁️ 29 °C
- Altitude: 8 m
- Indonesia South Sulawesi Tangngaparang Bulu Mabaleang -4.916008, 119.6114974°54’58” S 119°36’41” E
Day 18
Karst mountains
April 1 in Indonesia ⋅ ☁️ 29 °C
What's so special about Rammang Rammang is that it is the 2nd largest Karst region in the world. So there are these amazing mountains surrounding the village. It was originally a lake at the base of the mountains but alluvial rocks filled it in so it became excellent rice paddies.Read more
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- Apr 1, 2024, 2:21pm
- ☁️ 31 °C
- Altitude: 12 m
- Indonesia South Sulawesi Tamalading Salo Sinruala -5.138231, 119.4504645°8’18” S 119°27’2” E
Day 18
One extreme to another
April 1 in Indonesia ⋅ ☁️ 31 °C
After going back in time at Rammang Rammang, what should you do?
Go to a super mall of course.
This one is more environmental, open to the air, with green walls and waterfalls.
This uses less aircon and less energy. It was full of all the super expensive shops.
I had a great Nasi Lemak by myself because it wasn't sunset yet.Read more
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- Apr 2, 2024, 6:45pm
- ☁️ 28 °C
- Altitude: 10 m
- Indonesia South Sulawesi Baru Tanjung Pandan -5.139294, 119.4060645°8’21” S 119°24’22” E
Day 19
Iftar meal, Ramadan at night
April 2 in Indonesia ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
Iftar is the meal Muslims can have after sunset during Ramadan. And what a sunset tonight. Very spectacular. Should have done a timelapse video but I didn't expect it.
Vendors set up chairs and tables along the waterfront ready for the meal. I had a great Cap Cay (vegetable stew).
Then I had the local specialty dessert, Pisang Epe (Fried banana in a sea of treacle) while being entertained by local troubadours.Read more
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- Apr 3, 2024, 8:48am
- ☁️ 28 °C
- Altitude: 15 m
- Indonesia South Sulawesi Cinranae -5.063231, 119.5265615°3’48” S 119°31’36” E
Day 20
Habibie Love
April 3 in Indonesia ⋅ ☁️ 28 °C
I found Ikhsan, a driver and tour guide to take me out of Makassar, along the coast and up the mountains to Tana Toraja (land of the Toraja people).
First stop was the port of Pare-Pare, the birthplace of ex President B J Habibie. They love him and his wife Ainun.
Habibie is particularly celebrated as the only President who didn't come from Java. He was not elected but was vice president when Suharto was forced to resign.
After the loss of East Timor he pushed through decentralisation of power to reduce the possibility of other regions wanting independence.
In Pare-Pare there is also s memorial to the 40,000 killed during the War of Independence.Read more
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- Apr 3, 2024, 2:34pm
- 🌩️ 29 °C
- Altitude: 194 m
- Indonesia South Sulawesi Kabupaten Enrekang Kulinjang Buttu Maladewe -3.534928, 119.7723393°32’6” S 119°46’20” E
Day 20
The Erotic Mountain
April 3 in Indonesia ⋅ 🌩️ 29 °C
Next stop is Gunung Nona, The Erotic Mountain.
I'm surprised at such a conservative culture celebrating women's private parts. Anyway the views are amazing in all directions as we go up into the mountains.Read more
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- Apr 3, 2024, 4:25pm
- ☁️ 26 °C
- Altitude: 833 m
- Indonesia South Sulawesi Rura Salu Barani -3.280983, 119.8489063°16’52” S 119°50’56” E
Day 20
Tojara Tongkanon houses
April 3 in Indonesia ⋅ ☁️ 26 °C
The first thing you notice in Tana Tojara are the amazing traditional tongkanons (chieftain's houses) with their upturned roofs. The tradition tells the story of how their ancestors paddled up the river and then built houses with their boats as roofs.
Water buffalo horns and jaws adorn the front and sides of the buildings to show the wealth of the owner. The more and larger the horns the more wealth.
The Toraja also build rice barns in the same style. The more barns also showing more wealth and status.Read more
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- Apr 4, 2024, 9:10am
- ⛅ 25 °C
- Altitude: 814 m
- Indonesia South Sulawesi Gorang Salu Bulubulu -3.041353, 119.8774423°2’29” S 119°52’39” E
Day 21
The Living Dead
April 4 in Indonesia ⋅ ⛅ 25 °C
The Tojara have very different funeral rites. They bury their dead in caves or tombs that are chiselled out of rock faces. Or in coffins hanging on the rock face.
Then the wealthy make Tau-Taus (models of the dead person) to put in front of the grave. The even wealthier build miniature tongkanons to display the body before it is buried.
But if a child dies before it gets any teeth then a hole is cut into a sacred tree and the body placed inside the hole and it is sewn back up.Read more
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- Apr 4, 2024, 10:15am
- ☀️ 26 °C
- Altitude: 1,002 m
- Indonesia South Sulawesi Tana Toraja Regency Burake Buntu Burake -3.095161, 119.8663363°5’43” S 119°51’59” E
Day 21
Jesus Christ, Almighty!
April 4 in Indonesia ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
In Indonesia everyone needs to identify which of the 6 major religions they belong to. Animism or atheism are not options. Most Toraja chose Christianity as a reaction against possibly being forced to be Muslim by the Indonesian Islamic Army rebellion in Sulawesi in the 1950s. But their actual beliefs are more animist. This has now been officially recognized as Aluk To Dolo (Way of the ancestors) as a sect of Christianity.
Anyway, there's a giant Jesus on the hill overlooking Toraja, with great views and many churches around Toraja.Read more
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- Apr 5, 2024, 4:40pm
- ☁️ 32 °C
- Altitude: 8 m
- Indonesia South Sulawesi Kabupaten Soppeng Toddasalo Lake Tempe -4.118567, 119.9673084°7’7” S 119°58’2” E
Day 22
Floating fishing village
April 5 in Indonesia ⋅ ☁️ 32 °C
In Cambodia I went to a floating fishing village on Tonle Sap (lake) which had lots of houses and its own school and shops. This village on Lake Tempe was not anywhere near that. There were only 5 houses. Apparently there used to be about 100 houses here but the lake has been overfished and many people have left to find a better way of living. The lake has also been clogged up with water hyacinth weeds which can double nearly every day so the floating village can get overwhelmed by them. A new route has to be found nearly every day.
But the boat trip out along the river and onto the lake was great. And lots of birds: terns, herons, egrets, swamphens.
So it was all worth it.Read more
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Provinsi Sulawesi Selatan, Sulawesi Selatan, South Sulawesi, سولاوسي الجنوبية, Etelä-Sulawesi, Sulawesi du Sud, Sulawesi Meridionale, 南スラウェシ, Zuid-Celebes, Celebes Południowy

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