Southeast Sulawesi, Buton island. South buton is an exciting place with lots of history and lots to do, offering you unforgettable adventures with many kinds of destination you must experience. Now I am going to tell you about some places in south buton.
1. BAHARI
The local people there are very friendly, as shown by their huge smiles and dimples, you can enjoy the white Sandy beaches, hike wakamouse mountain, go snorkelling and enjoy seeing the colorful corals, you will always get nice dimple from local and much perfect stay there for a day or some. Enjoy white sand, hike wakamouse mountain, snorkeling and enjoy colorful corals. But The most amazing part is when sun starts go down, you can sit on traditional boat to enjoy sunset vibe against the stunningly beautiful backdrop of islets like Umbrellas. It’s perfect place to stay for a day or more.
If you come in november, you will be able to experience the riapa ceremony which last for five days where local performance the traditional dance of baruga. locals love to serve the traditional food during the ceremony to the locals and tourist alike who come to bahari during the event.
2. RONGI
It has some of the most staggering scenery that you will ever see. I remember when first time I visited this beautiful village three year ago, during that time an old Man passed away and people there were crying while some people played drum/gendang, they kindly offered us a cup of coffee and tobacco to smoke. I feel a different atmospher at the house.
This village is very clean and has tidy traditional house in old fortress area. One fascinating fact is that they have a lot of philosophical rules when they want to build a house, for example the Wood must be keep upright, like when they take it from the jungle and when they start making one part of house it Must have chicken or goats blood. They treat homes with great respect, almost like human.
This village also has three waterfalls in the jungle with sound of birds are very beatiful. lamando hill that looks like isle of skye is the best place for camping.
3. WAWOANGI
This village has old fortress in the hill and has nice view of ocean. They prepared the place for visitors on the top of big tree to see very well the blue of ocean. One kilometer from the fortress you will see the first mosque in buton island, first see this building looks like an old and uninhabited house but who would have thought, the building is the oldest mosque on the island of buton. The mosque was founded by syeh abdul wahid 1527 in the form a small house which was believed to be the first mosque propagation on buton island, the mosque located in the mountain of wawoangi village, sampolawa district, south buton regency, according to the story of establisment of this mosque began when syeh abdul wahid saw a bright light up into the sky that radiates from the mountain above. This mosque has its own uniqueness compare to other mosque, the uniqueness of this mosque is that until right now the building are made of wood originally. In front of the mosque there are sandalwood trees and there are tombs which are the tombs of father of Sultan buton VII sultan saparigau. This village has also new spot called lapoili.
4. MOLONA
Molona located in siompu island, to reach this beautiful island, you will need to take a boat from Topa and takes about 30 to 40 minutes, typical rates range from around 15.000 rupiah and 35.000 rupiah if you go with motorbike. siompu island has a lot of beautiful beaches, to cover these beaches in detail, you should start at east part of the island and work your way west. ujung pasir and napasangia beach is the longest and beautiful beaches in siompu island and very calm.
I spent two weeks in this island and created great experience with some fisherman there, such as see the activity of fisherman that use bubu (fish trap from bamboo), spare fish and make trap for octopus. The fish there is very cheap.
5. BURANGASI
There’ra two options to reach lakadao beach, you need to take a rent boat and take 30 to 40 minutes in trekking. There’s bungalow in the beach, the best place to see great sunset and this village also has traditional festival every year.
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