8 Tourist Attractions in Sinjai that are Interesting for You to Visit

Many tourist attractions in Sinjai that you can visit. Sinjai is one of the regencies in the South Sulawesi region bordering Bone Regency. The distance to Makassar City is around ± 220 km, with a travel time of around 4 hours from Makassar City using public transportation in the form of small cars.

If you have a plan to travel to the South Sulawesi area, then Sinjai City is one of the tourist attractions that you need to visit. Here are 8 tourist attractions in Sinjai that you must visit.

List of Attractions in Sinjai

1. Batu Barae Waterfall

Location: Batu Belerang, Sinjai Borong

A tourist asset that is quite unique and one of them is a tourist destination that is much in demand by domestic and foreign tourists. The location is not too far away to be enjoyed. Enough with four-wheeled vehicles or two wheels with a distance of about 35 km from the city center.

Locations that are quite pleasant in nature with low temperatures, motivate us to adventure, explore the panoramic beauty of the Barambang.

When the cold began to wrap, adventure was even more enthusiastic with the pride of the cliff in exploring the coast of Batu Barae.

The local community named it in the Makassar language with an animal cage made of stone in this case historically in the form of a giant buffalo cage.

The location of Batu Barae's Twin Waterfall with its supportive nature is located in Barambang Village, Sinjai Borong District.

2. Gojeng Batupake Archaeological Park

Location: Biringere, Sinjai Utara

Batupake Gojeng Archaeological Park is located in Sinjai Utara Village, 2 kilometers from the city center. This area is also one of the tourist attractions in Sinjai which is crowded with tourists during holidays.

In the era of Japanese rule, this location was used as the Japanese defense headquarters and scouts of ships that crossed the Gulf of Bone and allied aircraft.

At this time, this hill has been built on the hill, where there are sandalwood, pine and palm trees, and some small diameter wells. On top of these hills, the natural scenery of the Sinjai City is complete, as well as the territory of Pulau Sembilan in Bone Bay.

3. Pulau Sembilan

Sembilan Island is one of the tourist attractions in Sinjai that you should not miss when traveling to this city. The island is called Pulau Sembilan because it consists of nine large and small islands.

If you want to go to Pulau Sembilan, you can rent motorized vehicles in Lappa Port at a rate of Rp.500,000 per person.

With this rate you can visit all the islands on Pulau Sembilan. The distance to the Lappa port from the city center is only about 15 minutes. While the distance from Lappa Port to Pulau Sembilan is around 4 hours.

The interesting thing that you can see on Sembilan Island is a group of islands with very clear sea water.

When you dive into the sea that is on a group of islands that are there, you will be treated to a very beautiful underwater scenery in the form of colorful coral reefs and various types of fish swimming freely here and there.

4. Niagara ago Lembang

Location: Jl. Lembang Saukang, Tellu Limpoe

Walking around and visiting all the natural beauty of the panoramic view of Sinjai, take your time to visit the Saukang Lembang Waterfall which is located about 45 Km from the city center by land transportation.

This waterfall is called a seven-level waterfall because it has a unique seven levels with a large flow of rhythmic water falling down seven times.

Agro tourism in this area is very easy to find, durian ottong and rambutan longan are a choice.

Along the way to Lembang Saukang Waterfall is lined with clove, chocolate, vanilla and even pepper gardens that look beautiful and the smell that is typical of cloves overlooks the nose like enjoying the cigarette of choice.

This natural order of clove and cacao plantations makes the environment around many other wild plants found as main foods such as petai, kedondong and cashew nuts.

3. Ujung Kupang Beach

Location: Sinjai Timur

This beach is located about 15 km from the city center. The interesting thing that you can see on Kupang Beach is the view of clear sea water with a stretch of unique rock on the edge.

Right in front of the beach you can watch the island of Sembilan from a distance. When the morning, you can see the beauty of the sunrise that you may have never witnessed.

6. Ancient Karampuang Settlements

One of the tourist attractions in Sinjai that you should not miss. Karampuang is a traditional area located in the traditional village of Karampuang. Tompo Bulu Village, Bulupoddo District, is approximately 40 km from the city center.

Inside the customary area, you can find two traditional traditional houses hundreds of years old, Cucukan Cave which contains stones inscribed (inscriptions), dolmen graves from the past and a large ancient well.

7. Mangrove Tongke-Tongke

Location: Tongke-Tongke, East Sinjai

Enjoying the panoramic nature of Sinjai, it does not seem like if we travel northwards.

In the northeastern part of Sinjai, on the coast of the sea of ​​Tongke-Tongke hidden lined up and lush mangrove forests that are arranged naturally show the beauty of the natural panorama.

Visiting Tongke-Tongke mangrove forest attractions located in East Sinjai District, you can use land transportation, and about 5 minutes by sea transportation.

8. Balangnipa Oval Fortress

Location: Balangnipa, Sinjai Utara

This classic European style Dutch fortress is located in Balangnipa Village, approximately 1 km from the city center. At first the Balangnipa Fortress was founded at the beginning of the XV century (approximately 1857) by the Kingdom of Tellulimpoe.

The basic material is from mountain rock tied with mud from the Tangka River. The walls are as thick as siwali reppa (Half Depa) and consist of 4 pieces of Bastion (defense) which form an oval rectangle.

The Dutch then captured Balangnipa Fortress in 1859 after winning the Mangngarabombang War. In 1864 - 1898, the Netherlands renovated Balangnipa Fortress using European architecture as it is today.

Such is the list of tourist attractions in Sinjai that readers can visit when visiting this city. Hopefully it can help in determining the attractions that will be visited later.