CULTURE OBSEVATION BULUKUMBA-SINJAI

  

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Hello everyone !

My name is nayu handayani. I am student from the makassar tourism poytechnic, a study program of tour & travel business management study program Diploma 4, Second semester.

I will share my tour experiences which take place from the 19th to the 21st of February 2020.

Wednesday, February 19 2020 we traveled with an initial meeting, at the Makassar Poltekpar campus, to several areas in the city of Makassar such as historic sites and to some places with quite beautiful natural beauty.

First day

At 07.30 we started traveling from Poltepar Makassar, and rested at Agri restaurant for lunch at 12.25 with the menu below.

 

After lunch we continue our trip to Karampuang, Karampuang is one of the villages in Bulukumba that still upholds culture and tradition, for example, before we enter the village we put a small stone covered with leaves which is placed on a large top first This is believed to be a tribute to the men in the Karampang village.

For the pillars in this karampuang traditional house has 5 poles facing from east to west which indicate the number of pillars of Islam and and poles that face from south to north which indicate the number of pillars of Islam, after observing karampuang we continued our journey to the hotel, we arrived at the hotel Grand Rofia Sinjai at 17:30 and immediately check in and then get ready to present the results of our observations today, finish observations at 23:00 and go straight back to the room to rest and prepare for the trip tomorrow.

Second Day

On the second day our activities began with morning exercise then continued with breakfast and then we continued our journey to Batu Pake Gojeng. We arrived at Batu Pake Gojeng at 08.15 and made observations. Gojeng used the name of stone because stone used means chisel stone and gojeng which is the place of discovery of chisel stone, chisel stone which is stone carved by the ancients so as to form an object or tool that can help them to carry out their lives such as, wells of stone, tempt spice from stone Stone, mortar from stone, seat and rock bottom. Gojeng use is one of the attractions in the regency of Sinjai, the stone using gojeng is a tourist spot located in the mountains so that in stone using gojeng we can see the beauty of the Sinjai area from above. After observing the stone using gojeng.

                        

After making observations on the stone using gojeng we continued our observation at the Balang Nipa fort, Balang Nipa fort has meaning, Nalang means mud and nipa means a tree that is a kind of palm tree, Balang Nipa fort was founded by the king of the kingdom of Bulo - Bulo and Lamatti in 1557, then the fort was renovated by the netherlands from 1864-1868 and then used by the netherlands as a defensive fortress, on top of the Balang Nipa building there are three antennas that function as lighting rods, and now this fort is used as a museum which stores historic items such as cannons, Sulawesi traditional house schemes, tools for making sarong weaving, drinking water containers, places for spices and irons in ancient times, traditional and traditional community clothing and aristocracy as well as traditional fishing gear.

After observing at the Balang Nipa Museum, we continued our journey to observe the Kajang tribe. The Kajang tribe consists of two namely the inner and outer kajang, the outer kajang is the kajang tribe which is influenced by the modern world and the inner kajang is the kajang tribe who have not worn modern tools or upheld the traditions of their ancestors. The tradition of ancestors that are still carried out in daily life by the Kajang community in that is to enter the area of ​​the Kajang in the prohibited use of footwear both visitors and the original Kajang native community, not intended to use brightly colored clothes in other words visitors or the Kajang community in those who have returned (adults) can only wear dark colored clothing. After making observations at Kajang we continued our trip to the same resort hotel, arrived at the same resort hotel at 15.45 and got ready for the presentation and dinner from 17.00 - 18.45 then the presentation and dinner from 18.45 - 23.00 finished the presentation and dinner we got ready to make a trip tomorrow.

Third day / Last day

We woke up at 04.45 and got ready to take part in morning exercise, finished our morning exercise breakfast at 06.15 - 07.00, then we took pictures and swam at 07.00 - 07.30,

then we checked out the hotel, then we observed the hotel at the same resort hotel, finished observing the hotel at the same resort hotel, we called for a trip to the making of the phinisi ship, the phinisi ship is one of the traditional Indonesian times when originating from the Bugis tribe of the province of South Sulawesi, one of the areas producing phinis ships is Kab. Bulukumba is sold at a price for the smallest vessels worth 500,000,000 and the biggest ones with production costs worth 32 million. 

After making observations at the phinisi shipbuilding we continued our trip to the balla lompoa museum, arrived at the balla lompoa museum at 10.15, at the balla lompoa museum there were historical items such as the spear of the cave king, pictures of important events at the glory of the king of gowa, seat of the king of gowa, and food tools used during the kingdom of gowa.

After making observations at the Ballalompoa Museum we continued our journey to Kampong Toa restaurant, where we rested for a while to eat, finished eating we continued our journey to see the process of making salt, but due to the unfavorable weather we could not see the manufacturing process, but for salt so having a shelter right next to the manufacture of goods, we finished observing at 16:10 then we continued our trip to campus and arrived at 17.55.

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