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Tomando el bus nocturno desde Makassar llego, a las 6 de la manana, a Rantepao, la ciudad mas importante de la comarca llamada Tana Toraja. Antes de llegar, cuando solo quedaban unops kilometros, me sono el movil. Era Arru, el amigo de Baso, el que me habia encontrado en el Fort Roterdam en Makassar. Le habia enviado un mensaje la noche anterior...

Salut a tous, a present, notre voyage continue au sud de l ile. on a pas fait long a Makassar et on est direct arrive dans la region des Toraja, une civilisation qui concentre toute son energie autour d ue seule activite, enterrer ses morts. Ca a l air un peu macabre et en fait c est plutot joyeux, ce sont de grandes kermesses ou tout le monde s...

Today is market day. Markets here have a six-day cycle, moving through six different locations, but the Rantepao one is the biggest, where people come from all over the surrounding hills to sell their prodiuce and buy and sell chickens, pigs and, most importantly, buffalo. We walked along the river to Bolu, a few kilometres out of town, stopping...

It was a very lazy day today. We did an early morning walk on the outskirts of town along the river - just as beautiful as anywhere else around here. It's all so photogenic that we are regretting not bringing a camera, but we would probably have spent a fortune on film if we did. The internet café, which has been out of order since our arrival h...

Yoong woke me up at 6.30 a.m. We should have started earlier as walking is best in the early morning. We had a simple street-food breakfast of sticky rice with sambal and coconut, then walked two kilometres to Bulo, where the bemo terminal is. We intended to get a bemo to Sa'dan, but first we wanted to walk to a couple of big hotels another kilo...