TORAJA – CULTURAL & SHORT TREKKING 4 DAYS

4 Days
Toraja, located in the mountainous region of South Sulawesi, Indonesia, offers a fascinating blend of natural beauty, unique cultural traditions, and ancient rituals.
  • Location: Toraja is situated in the central highlands of South Sulawesi, approximately 300 kilometers north of the provincial capital, Makassar.
  • Cultural Heritage: The Torajan people are renowned for their rich cultural traditions, particularly their elaborate funeral ceremonies known as Rambu Solo. These ceremonies can last for several days and involve intricate rituals, traditional music (known as "Ma'randing"), and buffalo sacrifices, which are believed to escort the deceased into the afterlife.
  • Traditional Architecture: Torajan traditional houses, known as Tongkonan, are distinctive with their boat-shaped roofs and intricate wood carvings. These houses not only serve as residences but also hold significant cultural and spiritual meaning for the community.
  • Natural Beauty: The landscape of Toraja is characterized by lush green valleys, terraced rice paddies, and mist-covered mountains. It offers breathtaking scenery, particularly around the towns of Rantepao and Makale, which are popular bases for exploring the region.
  • Bus,City Car (E.x Toyota Inova)
  • Heritage/Misiliana Toraja

Itinerary

morning flight
Upon Arrival at Hasanuddin Airport Makassar to welcome you, meet your guide , then drive directly to TORAJA along distance 308km of fascinating dsites take about 8 hours. Your stop along the way will include a view of Buginese traditional houses. Lunch will be serve at local restaurant and refreshment at puncak lakawan hill to see a beautifully panoramic from the mountains the local people called BUTTU KABOBONG, and enjoy you’re a hot tea or coffee. Late in the afternoon arriving in Toraja check –in at hotel Heritage over night,dinner by own.

Pick up at Hotel, a full day exploring Tana Toraja. First you will visit Lemo to see rows of Tau Tau statues and the hanging graves. Onwards to Londa with its ancient tombs in which the deceased was not buried, but placed among the rocks. Lunch break in a local restaurant in Rantepao. Onwards to Kete Kesu with a stop in Karuaya to enjoy the beautiful and typical Toraja panorama, From here we will continue with a short walk to Kete Kesu, one of the oldest Toraja villages. Here you still find two rows of the original village houses, the traditional ancestral houses of the Toraja people, Tongkonan, as well as traditional rice barns with colorful wood carvings. Overnight at hotel

Pick up at Hotel, we will bring you to visit Pallawa & Sa’dan To’baranna, local Torajan villages known as the weaving center of Rantepao. Afterwards drive up and stop over in Tinimbayo where we can enjoy the spectacular view of the megalith stones spread over the extensive rice fields. Then to a burial cave of Lokomata. From Lokomata, transfer to local restaurant for having lunch with rice field view. After lunch continuing our trip to Batutumonga where we will a have short trekking down around 2-3 hours to Lempo village, enjoy the beautiful panorama and experience a moment of the unique Torajan life style (interaction with local life, see coffee plantation, bamboo forest and rice terrace). Then we will visit Bori village to see the stone menhir before back to the hotel for overnight

After breakfast, chek out hotel transfer to Toraja Airport / Palopo Airport to catch flight to Makassar. Or you can back to makassar by land