Our booking office will be closed on Wednesday 25th April. Enquiries will be answered on Thursday. Most people are struck first by the baroque geography of Sulawesi, created by the primal forces of colliding continental plates. The drama of the geography continues into the topology. Rugged, mist-covered mountains tower over emerald green rice fields.
Dense forests surround clear, still, highland lakes.
Land meets azure sea in endless stretches of white, sandy beach, at stark limestone cliffs, or in the coastal wetland's gentle blending of soil, water and teeming life. The human geography is equally complex and fascinating a melange of peoples with superficial differences and deep similarities. The brave and fiercely independent Bugis seafarers ranged as far as China and Australia, providing the backbone of regional commerce. The highland Toraja climb sheer cliff faces, unaided, to carve deep cryots into solid rock. The Bajau spend their entire lives on the sea, able to dive for so long, that they are reputed to possess gills.