NATURE FIELD TRIP REPORT, TORAJA
Hay, back with me again, Indah Puspitasari the best ever. I
know you missing me right? Haha…
In this opportunity I’ll tell you my story when I went to
Toraja view days ago, at 21-23 Oct 2019, NATURE FIELD TRIP, TORAJA, 3D2N. over
there we do tracking and hiking. Honestly, this is the secccond time to go to
Toraja after Widya Wisata (you can check my Instagram @indahpsptsr___).
Toraja is a place full of beautifulness. Doesn’t only known
by the culture, history and heritage, but also by the nature. And doesn’t only
known by local people, but also one of most famous and interesting destination
that tourist want to visit. Toraja is a place that you will never get in
another place. Toraja have so many unique and interesting thing that makes
people fall in love with. The culture in Toraja, still keeped by the people.
That’s a good thing to know and people or tourist also interested to come to
visik aand knowing more about Toraja.
Okey, now I will tell you about my story of nature fiel
trip. Natcaaaahh…..
Okey. Day one, at 21 Oct, I have to gathered at campus,
before 7.30 in the morning. After that wee doin photo banner and then we start
our trip at 8.00.
The route is Makassar – Maros – Pangkep – Barru – Pare-pare –
Sidrap – Entrekang – Toraja. And then we
take a rest and have lunch at Kupa beach restaurant. We got welcome drink. And
that is so delicious. A drink it about three cups. Haha…
After that, we enter
the bus again to continue our trip, and then we got a twisted road at Enrekang
regency. That is extrimaly fun, hehe…. And we also have a coffee break time at
Bambapuang and we can see beautiful view of Gunung nona, Enrekang regency.
After that, we continue our trip, and late afternoon we arrived at Toraja
especially at Indra Toraja Hotel. After that, we changed our chlothes to white
and dark jeans, and after that we go to dinner at Ayam Penyet Ria. After that,
we have an free program and take a rest for preparing our stamina to tracking
and hiking in the next day.
And then, yeah. Day two. The day, the most waited day is
come. Our time description is 5,6,7. 5.00 we woke up, 6.00 we breakfast, 7.00
we start our activities. And after breakfats we start to tracking. It almost
one day full we doing tracking and hiking. And we visiting so may tourist
attraction ofer there. Like, the first is, we found a place, a field rice, but
over there so many big rocks. My leture said “this rocks, believed as volcanic
rocks, and that’s right. As you can see the rocks it self. But, according to
history, there is no volcanic active mountain ever ceming out that rocks. So
that very interesting”. After that, we tracking just a little bit and we are
already found the other tourist attraction. The name is Tongkonan Berurung.
Tongkonan is a traditional house from Toraja. And in tongkonan, every inch in
it is meaning something. That’s make me so amaized about Toraja especially
Tongkonan. My lecture said, tongkonan dividet to two tipes, there are tongkonan
and alang. If the tongkonan have so many buffalo horn in front of it, that’s
mean it’s from a goo, or rich family. Alang is a place to place the food after harvest,
like rice and the other. And toraja’;s carving and painting is so beautiful and
meaningfull. Every carving meaning something. Like chicken, sun, and the other.
We take some photo over there, and then we move to the other place. Along the
street it’s easy to find coffee tree. Toraja also known by the coffee. We also
seen local people, some kind of animals like, buffalo, pig and dog. We also
visited a house that they are preparing a ceremony called Rambu Solo for
December ahead. After that we continuing to tracking but I choose to hiking
also, because I want the more extreme ways. So I choose the hiking one to can
rach the restaurant. It almost 30 minutes hiking, crossing field rice. But when
I arrived at the restaurant, I can see the beautifull view of Toraja. I can see
field rice, local people houses and mountains. The name of the restaurant is
Guest House and Coffee Shop Mentirotiku Batutumonga.
After some hours over
there, we continuing the tracking. We crossing forest, and then we also find a
tongkonan that stil on procces, painting procces especially, and then we visit
the last tourist attraction, the name is Erong Lombok. Erong Lombok is a tomb
in a cave. Over there is so many bones and skull. But theirs is also a reminder
for the tourist to don’t touch the bones and skull.
After that, we visit Todi,
to buy some souvenir. After that, we go back to the hotel, changed chlothes to
batik, and then we dinner at New Aras caffe. After that we have a free time or
brak time to take a rest.
The last day at toraja. Day three. After we finished our
breakfast, we check out from the hotel, and we visited one of the café at
Toraja, the name is KAA café. We learn so many thing over there because the
owner tell us so many things. That make us doesn’t only taste the coffee but
also we back home with some knowledge of coffee. After that we go to Lakipadada
statue, after that we continuing our trip.
We have a coffee break again at
Enrekang regency, at the same place. And then we continue again, and we have
our lunch at Teras Empang. And we also visit local house and meet local people
around here, and we can see the procces of making salty fish. After that we
still continuing and have dinner at Maros, at rumah makan suka-suka, at grand
mall Maros. After that, late of evening wearrived at Makassar especially at
campus, Tourism Pholythecnic of Makassar.
Yeah… I think that’s all the story of the nature field trip.
Little bit tired but so much fun. I think that’s all. I’m sorry if here so many
minus things on this blog, because im just a beginner, and I also want to say
sorry about the writing, if there so many typo. I think that’s all, don’t
forget to visit my other social media, all in bio/description. Thank you so
much, see you on the next blog and byee……
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