Indonesia Travel: Other Islands
South Sulawesi
Any Indonesia vacation will be enriched by a visit to South Sulawesi. This remarkable area offers a picturesque and extensive coastline dotted with harbor towns and colorful fishing villages. You’ll discover spectacular natural features, including eerie limestone karst mountains, large caves, hot springs, thundering waterfalls, and huge lakes; distinctive flora and fauna; and diverse and exotic cultures including the Bugis (renowned as pirates in the not-too-distant past), the Makassar (builders of the fabulous Makassar schooners), and the Torajan (known for their incredible funeral ceremonies and cliff burials).
Tana Toraja (Torajaland)
Travel to Indonesia includes trekking, exposure to tribal cultures and elaborate rituals, birding, rainforest trekking, and cultural interactions in the Tana Toraja area.
North Sulawesi
Experience some of the world’s best scuba and snorkeling during your Indonesia travel. Visit national parks with dis-tinctive indigenous wildlife and dense tropical forest throughout North Sulawesi.
Flores & Sumba
Explore the “outer edges” of remote eastern Indonesia, where steaming volcanoes dominate the landscape in some areas, while in others there are infertile savannahs. The people are progressively more traditional as one travels east: discover their villages, animistic religious practices, and extraordinary ikat weavings. These are truly adventurous destinations, best accessed by our schooner the Adelaar.
Papua (formerly Irian Jaya)
Baliem Valley
Remaining one of the world’s most inaccessible places, Papua is the western half of the island of New Guinea. Its heart is the magnificent Baliem Valley, an expansive plain between two imposing mountain ranges, cut by the roaring Baliem River. Both the valley and the surrounding mountains are inhabited by the Dani tribe. These “Gentle Warriors of the Highlands” with their penis gourds and feathered headdresses are, to the visitor, among the most gentle and soft-spoken people you will ever encounter, yet reports of tribal wars endure, conducted to settle a blood feud or a marriage gone bad. Mummifying and smoking the remains is the Dani’s traditional way of showing respect to their powerful ancestors. It may be possible to join in the festivities of a traditional Dani pig feast, an incredible experience, unchanged over the millennia. Explore traditional salt mines at Jiwika, where tribal women soak trunks from banana plants in a brine pool to collect the precious salt. This is a destination for the flexible adventurer, willing to sacrifice creature comforts and predictability for a glimpse into the lives of some of Earth’s most primitive people. While in villages, lodging and food will be simple. Portions of some walks may be strenuous even for strong walkers. >>Indonesia Travel Considerations
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