Writing is like a therapy for me. I can observe, assess and share my feelings, thoughts, memories and anything what I have been through. Because one day, yes, one day, all of them will be precious things to remember.
Satu daerah paling tersohor di Sulawesi Selatan dan bahkan di dunia hanya Toraja. Toraja atau Tana Toraja atau dari kata To Riaja yang berari Orang yang bermukim di daerah atas. Dalam hal ini berarti daerah pegunungan.
Jika berjalan-jalan kesini, 1000 persen budaya dan adat istiadat setempat masih sangat kental. Setelah beberapa kali mengunjungi daerah ini, ada saja hal yang memanjakan mata saya dengan hal yang baru. Semua mungkin sudah sangat familiar dengan acara upacara kematian, atau panorama gunung di Sesean, makam batu di tebing-tebing. Tapi kali ini saya akan menunjukkan satu lagi sisi unik dari Toraja dengan pemandangan batunya. Saya dan keluarga menuju satu tempat yang bernama Bori. Bori atau dikenal dengan Rante Kalimbuang Bori masih terletak di kota Toraja Utara. Ditempat inilah menjadi salah satu situs warisan dunia UNESCO yaitu adanya batu Simbuang. Batu yang menyerupai menhir. Bisa dubilang punya kemiripan dengan stonehengenya Inggris, atau kalau yang ada di Indonesia ada di kebumen.
Menhir dan Tongkonan
Nah,Batu-batu ini ditanam diambil dari gunung- gunung yang ada di Toraja. Untuk membangun situs megalith ini, masyarakat setempat harus mengadakan satu ritual khusus yang bernama “Rapasan Sapurandanan”. Bukan hanya itu, kalau di Toraja nggak korbanin kerbau nggak afdal rasanya. Untuk ritual tersebut jumlah kerbau yang dikorbankan minimal 24 ekor. Menurut kepercayaan adat setempat, semakin tinggi menhir yang didirikan, semakin tinggi pula derajat kebangsawanan seseorang. Untuk menanam batu ini, diperlukan beratus-ratus lelaki. Caranya yaitu dengan ditarik dengan menggunakan batang pohon dan tali temali dari bambu. Kurang lebih sepertiga dari batu ini ditanam dalam tanah.
3M.. Menhir, Me, Marvelous !
tercatat ada 102 batu yang tertanam di kawasan ini dengan beraneka macam ukuran. Untuk para wisatawan, mereka tidak akan dimanjakan dengan batu-batuan itu saja. Akan tetapi, juga bisa melihat beberapa makam yang ada di batu, kuburan bayi dan rumah tongkonan pastinya.
Oval Stone and some bodies in itSkulls and skeletons
“Climb mountains not so the world can see you, but so you can see the world”
The very first place I found my self got a punk’d Trip !
My friends and I went to Tanralili lake on Saturday afternoon , Sept 26 2015. We started from Makassar around 6pm by scooter. None of us knew that place. We’re totally blind about that. My friends laughed at me because I wore a kinda “princess shoes”. Then Dede (one of my friends , took me to his house to lend me his shoes). They told me that we were about to HIKE !
well, okay ! HIKE ! ( not really interested in this tbh)
In the middle of the trip ( around 90 minutes), something went wrong with the scooter. It had a flat tire. Luckily, there was a workshop around us. It’s getting dark, while we repaired the scooter, we met a group of teenagers in that place. Ahmad adressed them , said Hello and asked them where they would going and they said ” Tanralili Lake”. GOOD then. We were really excited to join with them. They are civil engineering students from Makassar State of University. A few minutes later, we continued our trip.
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I gazed at my watch, it’s already 11 pm. Before getting this lake, we should registered all of the stuff we bring and our personal data. It’s quite tight now, because a few months ago, there was a man drowned in the lake.
While my friend wrote down our group’s name , I asked some people how long it gonna takes to reach the lake.Some of them said” it takes 50 minutes”, “we need 2 hours”, even one of them said it takes 7-8 hours”
O Crap. !
I took a deep breath. Frankly, I am not kind of a mount climber, I prefer beach to mountain. I thought that the place was easy enough to reach- – Park scooter, walk for a minute and VOILA – get the place. I was getting a little obsessive-compulsive.Seriously,I was terribly WORRIED. I calmed my self to hike. No choice. I wore jeans, no jacket at all.
12 am – 3:30 am -hiked Tanralili trails, up and down hills,walked through the rocky mountains in the middle of the darkness. It’s really remote place,no signals,yes of course No WI-FI !
Briefly, We reached the lake at 3:30 am, we set up our tents. I woke up in the morning and zipped my tent and looked at the beautiful scenery around me. It’s totally made my day. It’s extremely out of what I thought before , WOWWIWOW I made it.
(Hit mountains is not in my bucket list. I drawn myself if somebody asked me to hike.)*whispering *
Good morning Hikers, cheers for a good day !Travel Mates
Tanralili lake is like Ranu Kumbolo in Java, Indonesia. Tanralili is located in “Desa Lengkese, Gowa regency, South Sulawesi”, foothill of Bawakaraeng Mt.,meanwhile Ranu Kumbolo is in foothill of Semeru Mt. The view is so stunning, adorable, really magical with fresh air, fresh water, feel the excitement of trekking through the outdoors.
Saturdate, Saturnite, Saturawesome ! I’ve been fortunate, partly thanks to my travel mates. I’m sure that everyone on the trail goes home with an experience they never anticipated. I’m fucking feel that.
It’s been a while since I wrote a personal update, so I felt it was time for one of those.
My friends came to my hometown and stay for a couple days. It’s been years we have not met each other. Bone is my hometown’s name. Watampone is the capital of Bone regency. My friends are Ahmads ( three of Ahmad), they are Ahmad Adha, Ahmad Rayhan Agung and Ahmad Muhaemin. Ahmad Adha (Dede) sent me a message on LINE that they were heading to my place …around 6 am, January 30, 2014. I woke up and yeap.. surprised after read his message.I thought they were going to my place in the next day.
They finally got my place around 8 am, it’s little bit hard to find my place at that time,they asked me to wait for them in front of my home.
tteeddeeenngg——–
I saw them in a car and they yelled me loud while waved their hands. It was happy Friday morning ever. I prepared my room and let them put their stuff on it. They made this kind of short trip because luckily, Friday (January 31) was a public holiday and they were off on Saturday.
In the afternoon I took them to “TANJUNG PALETTE”. It is one of tourism objects in Bone and popular enough. It used to crowd and a lot of people spent their time in holiday or stay there. It is located around 17 kilometers from downtown. We passed some wide green rice fields, old houses and sugar palm trees. I personally have been visiting here at least once a month
We bought tickets IDR 16.000 and parked the car safely. We enjoyed our afternoon moments while waited for sunset. I was so glad take them there, seemed they were glad too. I love to explore new things even in the place where I live, it’s so uplifting!
And the night came !
Bought some snacks “GORENGAN” such as bakwan, tahu goreng and martabak.
Parked the car in the middle of “LAPANGAN MERDEKA”.
Ordered some drinks. A little bit funny when Ahmad Muhaemin ordered EXTRA JOSS , special one. I never taste that before. He said it’s good. I’m not so keen actually. Probably He lost of his energy then he ordered it. Extra Joss is one of energy drink which designed for an active style (advs).
Chitchat, made funny conversations, discussed about our next trip.
Back home.
Watched series. Dede introduced me an awesome plus hilarious series. That’s 2 BROKE GIRLS. I am in love with this series. Dede and I were so excited and sometimes we laughed loud and lost of attention to Muhe and Rayhan. (they called us PONGORO means crazy).
this series
The other morning, we made it out to Bulukumba.Started at 3 pm from Bone and heading to traditional market to buy “SUKUN”. After hours, We got Bulukumba around 8 pm and directly looked for an inn. A comfortable and cheap one. hihih
SUKUN oleh oleh BOne
And WE FOUND a place !!!
I forgot the name but the room was painted lame colors which I think was good enough. The beds were nice and firm, loads of pillows were supplied, nice clean towels, the toilets worked well and the room was clean and there was an air conditioning, TV, no Wi-Fi. All in all, this was a really decent budget choice in BIRA area.
The next day, Rayhan,Muhe and I went to Bara Beach. This is my first time in Bara, a couple times in Bira beach. Two totally different beaches. It is located in same area, but the sceneries are totally different. We made it !! Hope to see sunrise, apparently No Sunrise at all. We were late…late.. late.. 🙁
For our bestfriend, Fia
I took a short video once I touched the beach. So beautiful and peaceful. I damn LIKE it. White sands, it is not like sands, it is like flours. Yeah.. really soft.
I enjoyed my morning and played around with sands, crystal water, reefs and looked at some sexy coconut trees. I dare to say that this place is RECOMMENDED one.
We had our lunch in Bantaeng and we chosed BAKSO (meatball) for our lunch.
10K saja
I didn’t let myself to fall asleep during this trip. I have never been this town before. I wanted to see people around city, the landmarks etc. I was so blessed and so excited came to other places. It was like hmmmm I am an honor stranger-not-danger person.
We got Makassar around 8 pm and felt tired after miles, so far it was an incredible trip. I wanted to congratulate Rayhan, he drove along this trip, made his records. He said 700 kilometers in 3 days 2 nights. WOW
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SO… that’s our lovely weekends. I really thanks to my friends for took me and been a part of this trip.
