Bone Tourism

                                                 

Bone Tourism Travel Guide

Bone is one of the strongest and largest kingdom that once existed in South Sulawesi, call it Bone Kingdom. The capital city is Watampone. The graveyard of the king of the 17^th century B.C., located on Jalan Bukaka, a road leading to Sengkang regency is considered quite important to be visited. The type of the grave are similar to those of the King Gowa

Bone Regency located 147 km toward the eastern city of Makassar, it has a strategic position in the trade of goods and services at eastern Indonesia and the crossing to the South East Sulawesi and also knows as the place of the biggest rice production in South Sulawesi.

The boundaries area of Bone Regency is :

• Wajo and Soppeng at Northern.
• Sinjai and Gowa at Southern.
• Pangkep, Barru and Maros at West.

Bone – Watampone tourism travel guide and tourist attractions popular destinations can be enumerated as below :

Bola Soba.

Bola Soba is the house of war commander called “Petta Punggawa” who lived a long time ago. The house is still preserved under serious care and control. Surrounding the house, we are able to see some of the old traditions that are still strongly practiced, such as “Pencak Massampe, Ma’pere, Serewa Sirau Sulo” and other traditional dances.

Museum of Saoraja Lapawawoi.

In this museum, a great amount of kingdom remnants are carefully preserved, structured, and strongly controlled; including the war weapon that were used by Arung Palakka. Some activities are frequently held in this museum like “Mattompang Arajang” (the purity of the kingdom remnant ceremony), followed by the activity called “Mattoana Arajang” which is Usually marked by Bissu Dance and such ritual in wich the people “present dishes to the holy spirits”.

Mampu Cave

This is one of the large caves in South Sulawesi, about 700 m wide. Located about 34 km from Watampone. Mampu cave is an attractive cave with natural decorations of dangling stalagtites and stalagmites that resemble human figures. The caves is well decoration and let in enough sunlight, that it is not so dark and humid.

Source: http://www.sulawesi-experience.com/bone-tourism.html

Vocabularies

Words	Kinds of Part of Speech	Meaning
Existed	verb	telah ada
Graveyard	noun	pemakaman
Strategic	adjective	strategis
Trade	noun	Perdagangan
Cross	verb	Melintasi
Boundaries	noun	Berbatasan
Destination	noun	Tujuan
Attraction	noun	Daya tarik
Commander	noun	Pemimpin

 

Word Understanding

Ø  Sinonym              : persamaan kata

Ø  Antonym             : lawan kata

words	Synonim	antonym
Attractive
Commander
Cross
Strategic
Trade
Exist
Road
Great
Toward