Karst Maros, Sulawesi, Indonesia

5KaniaRaras 5:00 PM Apr 16, 2014

A Natural Beauty in Dusun Berua
I've been to a similar place like this in Guilin, China, on 2006 and I've never thought that there's a place like that in Indonesia until I visited this place. Surrounded by karst, Dusun Berua is a unique village with only 15 family live in their "rumah panggung" (a traditional wooden house with vault on the underside). A lot of people know this place as Desa Rammang-Rammang, but one of the locals told me that it is actually Dusun Berua, Village of Salenrang. It is not hard to reach this village; take an hour drive from Makassar city toward Maros, until you find a sign for Pabrik Semen Bosowa on your right. You will need to take a u-turn to reach that street, then go straight until you find a bridge. Alternatively, you can also type "Salenrang" on your navigation using Google Maps. There is the wharf of Rammang-Rammang located. You can park your vehicle along the street, and yes, it is safe. You will need to take a boat (IDR150,000 return) from there to reach Dusun Berua for about 20 minutes with a beautiful scenery surround you. Once arrived in Dusun Berua, there are several objects to see: a spring water, an ancient cave, or you can just spending time in the villager's houses while enjoying such a beautiful nature with rice fields, a row of karst, and the local life ambience. Karst Maros is a very precious natural source and heritage of South Sulawesi, and I really hope that it won't be vanished by exploitation of cement companies nearby.

4faozanrizal 5:00 PM Oct 9, 2012

NIce Karst formation,great natural track
This place is actually 1 hour drive from Makassar city. Its just natural track with karst formation with very wide of paddy field landscape.If you took land transportation from Makassar to Toraja, maybe you can just drop by this place. Its worth visiting if you love natural track and photographing. The most important is that this place is not tourist main attraction so still very quiet and natural :) This place not only karst rock formation but you can also do tracking or just rent wooden boat from locals and explore the rock formation between the river and the jungle. you can choose the track with rice field and small village or just climbing some hilly karst, but Many small monkey is living in the karst, so please don't disturb them and be a naturalist tourist also :) not so much food to buy here so better you take it with you from Makassar and respect the villagers for sure :)