On arrival at Sultan Hasanuddin airport, you will be met by your English speaking driver for your private transfer to Rantepao, North Toraja. The trip from Makassar to Toraja will take around 9-10 hours with a stop for lunch and coffee break on the way. Arrive at the hotel.

During the first day, you will explore baby grave inside a living tree in Bori, cave tomb in Tampangallo, stone grave with effigies in Lemo, traditional village with incredible design of Tongkonan houses and rice barns that look like a boat, and we will also visit the Jesus statue that is taller than the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro. Here you can see the view of Makale town from above. If there’s any funeral ceremony happens today, you can come and witness one. The dead body usually kept for few years inside the house and still consider as a sick person and will be officially dead on the first day of the funeral ceremony, after they sacrifice at least one water buffalo.

In the north part of Toraja you will wander a market where local people selling their products and every 6th day, cattle are brought to the market. Then head out to Lokomata to see the boulder grave with a stop in Tinimbayo rice terrace. Before short trekking through paddy fields and bamboo forest with your local tour guide, you can have lunch in Batutumonga with the view of Rantepao from above. Our driver will meet you up at the end of trekking route and continue to see megalithic stones in Bori.

Depart Toraja today to Sengkang. Sengkang is inhabited by Bugis ethnic and is famous for Tempe lake and traditional silk weaving. Before going to the hotel, we will visit a sericulture or silk worm farming. After check-in and rest a bit then we will visit a fisherman community that lives on floating houses on Tempe lake.

Depart Sengkang to your hotel in Makassar or Sultan Hasanuddin airport but before that we will see the traditional weaving village in Sengkang.

• Meals & beverages
• Donation if there is a funeral ceremony
• Tipping
• Personal expenses