South Sulawesi Island Tours
November 8, 2007 - 5:51 am
South Sulawesi , covering an area of 82,768 square kilometers (approximately the size of England), is cultural and geographical diserve. South Sulawesi possesses a fertile lowland rice growing area, as well as spectacular mountains, an arid southern zone and a long coastal area home to many fishing villages, where thousands of boats and fish traps of rattans and bamboo canstill be found.
South Sulawesi has a population of approximately 6 million people. They belong to four major ethnic groups and several other minor ones. In the northern highland, a large expance of the southern peninsula, is the region inhabited by Toraja people, known as Torajanese.
In the extensive coastal areas and fertile lowlands live approximately 3 million Buginese. Whilst one and a half million Makasarese are concentrated in the southern part of the province and around the city of Ujung Pandang, the capital of the region. Along the peninsula's northwestern coastline live half million Mandarese. The Buginese, Makasarese, and Mandarese are renowned throughout Indonesia as seafares. In the case of Buginese, they are the colonisers of distance coast. The people of South Sulawesi gain their livehoods from the land as well as the sea. Rice is plentiful in the well - paddies of the lowland areas, while rolling hills yield important crops, such as maize, cassava, pepper, cloves, nutmeg, coffee, coconuts and bananas.
Additional cash income for many families in the region are provided by silk weaving, which is still carried out following traditional methods in the kampungs surrounding Sengkang; while lake fishing, can be found around Lake tempe. However, Sulawesi is probably best known for the small percentage of its population that continue to practice animist rituals. The best - known are the death rites of the Toraja people, which are undertaken to ensure the safe passage of the deceased into the next world. These are dramatic rituals when participants compete to bring the most splendid buffalo or to host the greatest number of guest.
Visitors are most welcome as 'guest' and are likely to be invited to share the feasts. Another dramatic site in the region is the traditional Torajan houses, topped with saddleshaped roof and decorated with buffalo horns and ornate paintings. We hope that the landscape of Southern Sulawesi will awe you with its diversity and splendor, and that the people will impress you with their ability to move into the modern world, whilst maintaining rituals which have been undertaken for thousands of years.
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