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Welcome My Blog. My name is inda idris. i'm a 3rd semester travel student,makassar Tourism Polytechnic. I would like to share a story about my experince while doing a nature field trip in northern toraja district. On 14,15,16 october 2019 me my classmate department of travel study program travel businness tour conducted nature field trip activities in the north toraja regency. We travel for 3D2N. And before we do our nature trip activities we do a meeting first with our toue leader.
Day 1
We left the campus
at 08.00 and headed to Barru district for lunch. During the trip, each student
is assigned to be a tour guide. From Makassar city to Barru Regency, it takes
about 3 hours.
We arrived at kupa beach restaurant, barru
district. There we were welcomed by the owner of a welcome drink restaurant.
Like the color of milk but not the taste of milk. Like the taste of coconut
milk, but delicious and fresh to drink. After that we had lunch together, pray,
rest and then continue the journey to Bambapuang, Enrekang Regency. From Barru
Regency to Bambapuang, it takes around 3-4 hours.
In Bambapuang, Enrekang District, we did a
coffee break and enjoyed the beauty of "Mount Miss". Miss Nona is
also one of the tourist attractions in Enrekang Regency. Besides being able to
do coffee breaks in Bambapuang, you can also buy ole ole typical of Enrekang
district because there are so many different types of food that can be used as
ole ole. After traveling from Bambapuang we continued our journey to Toraja
Regency, it was great to be able to set foot again in Tana Toraja.
The place is so beautiful with the
characteristics of the Tongkonannya house and is one of the places I wanted to
go to when I was in high school. We arrived at the senses hotel to check in,
and our tour leader gave directions to get ready to do dinner at the penyet ria
chicken. And our last activity was closed overnight.Our first day trip was
spent on the road because from Makassar city to Toraja district it was very far
and took around 8-11 hours.
Day 02
Our activity on the
second day was started with breakfast at the senses hotel and continued with a
trip to Timenbayo. At Timenbayo we enjoy the beautiful views of northern
Toraja. After timenbayo we continued our journey to Lokomata. Along the road to
our locomata we were amazed by the beauty of very thick dew.
Arriving at the
locomata, we observed the stone grave. And while the observation was taking
place we met a tourist from America along with a local guide. These tourists
and guides taught us a lot. Tourists tell us how the tracking experience he
did. And Gudie tour explained to us about the history of the tongkonan, tedong
and stone grave houses in Toraja. After that we continued our activities on
foot to the restaurant mentiro tiko.
Along the way we
saw a number of Toraja communities doing mutual cooperation activities. The
activity aims to replace stones from the tongkonan house as well as to tighten
the ties of the Toraja community itself. The men work pushing stones using
ropes and pick-up cars while women are in charge of preparing food for those
who work. In addition, along the way we also saw many new stone graves were
dug. And the scenery that we found was very beautiful.
We arrived at the
restaurant, we had lunch, rest for a while while performing prayers. After
about 1 hour we were ordered to take the bus and go to the next tourist spot,
namely to the starting point of the Bangko.
We also did
tracking from the Lempo to Bori. During the trip, we were accompanied by views
of a vast expanse of rice fields with cool breeze that has not been polluted by
pollution. Morning or evening is the right time to visit.We also visited baby
grave. Baby grave is a stone grave made by Toraja people to bury babies under
the age of six months. They were buried in a tree called 'Tara'. And it is said
that the tare tree has a lot of latex which is believed to give breast milk to
the baby in the tomb. Also when visiting baby grave we accidentally met with
tourists from France. He taught us many things including teaching us the
language.
After baby grave we
proceed to the next tourist attraction, Bori ’Kalimbuang. This tourism object
is one of UNESCO's world heritages which is located on the Poros Barana road,
Pangli, Bori Village, Sesean District, North Toraja Regency. These rocks are
not through natural processes, but are formed in advance and planted in the ground.
The formation and planting of stones cannot be done by just anyone. This Menhir is a
neat fusion with the Toraja traditional house, Tongkonan.
We rested for a
moment and sat on the edge of the rice fields while enjoying the beautiful view
of Tana Toraja. When we were resting, we saw many tourists passing by and many
people in Toraja were wearing black clothes, which they said would do solo
signs. We really want to see it but time and schedule do not allow us. So we
continued our journey.And the last place we visited was todi. Todi is a place
that sells typical Ole Ole Toraja. In addition, there we can see firsthand the
weaving process carried out directly by the Toraja community itself.
A very
nice place to visit to buy Ole Ole in North Toraja. After from todi we returned
to the hotel, dinner and over night.
Our third day
starts with checking out the hotel and having breakfast.
After breakfast we
went shopping at Ole Ole at the Toraja traditional market. In the traditional
Toraja market, there are many Toraja tribal souvenirs and toraja special foods.
But we were only
given 1 hour to shop and the next trip was to continue to lakipada. Lakipadada
is a descendant of Puang Tamboro Langi, who also was the first king with the
nickname Puang Tomatasak I in tana toraja.
After from
lakipadada we continued our journey home to return to Makassar. We do lunch in
the town of Parepare right terrace restaurant empang and dinner at the
restaurant of the dream city of Maros. After that we arrived at the campus safely.
THANK YOU 😊😊😊
