Travel to Southern Sulawesi

Southern Sulawesi consists of the provinces of South Sulawesi and West Sulawesi in Indonesia.

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Map of Southern Sulawesi

Makassar Metropolitan Area
(Gowa Regency, Maros Regency, Takalar Regency, and Makassar City)

Bantaeng Regency

Bulukumba Regency

Central South Sulawesi
(Barru Regency, Enrekang Regency, Pangkajene and Islands Regency, Pinrang Regency, and Sidenreng Rappang Regency, and Pare-Pare City)

Jeneponto Regency

Tana Luwu Region
including Palopo City, and Luwu Regency (North, East, and "central")

Tana Toraja Region
highlands famed for coffee and spectacularly gruesome burial rites, including Toraja Utara Regency

Tellumpoccoe Region
an area where three Bugis kingdom alliance used to be exist. Now, it has become Wajo, Bone (including its off-spring, Sinjai Regency), and Soppeng regency respectively.

West Sulawesi

Cities edit

-5.16186119.4361641 Makassar (Ujung Pandang) - the largest city in Sulawesi
-5.246667119.8619442 Malino - a hill station famous for its tropical flowers
-3.11306119.3833 Mamasa
-2.678611118.8933334 Mamuju
-3120.25 Palopo
-4.016667119.6236116 Pare-Pare

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-4.9119.751 Bantimurung-Bulusaraung National Park
-5.620556120.4722222 Tanjung Bira - a popular beach community on the south-eastern tip

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Tampa Padang Airport (MJU^IATA), Bua Airport (LLO^IATA)

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To get into the upper regions of Western Sulawesi you can take a mini-bus from Makasar to the small, inviting city of Mamasa. The ride is rough after you leave the coastal region, taking about 10 hours in total, give or take the whim of the driver.

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There are many luxury buses and mostly run at night from Makassar to Mamuju, Rantepao and even Soroako.

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Makassar is one of the culinary centers of Indonesia. Home of some Bugis and Makassar delicacies such as Coto (it is a soup with seasoning broth made from starch mixed with innards such as intestine, liver, lungs, heart, tripe, or cow brain), Konro (this soup is made with ribs or beef as main ingredient), Pallubasa (made from offal of cattle or buffalo) and Mie Kering (a type of dried noodle served with thick gravy and sliced chicken, shrimp, mushrooms, liver, and squid). As a big fish market center, Makassar is also famous for its seafood. Sop Sodara from Pangkep and Kapurung from Palopo are also famous dishes of South Sulawesi.

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To south via boat, Nusa Tenggara islands.

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