Rammang Rammang

SOUTH SULAWESI

Rammang Rammang

KARST TOWERS & RIVER BOATS

Rammang Rammang

Rammang-Rammang is a karst landscape in Maros regency, 40 km from Makassar. Limestone towers 100 to 300 m high rise out of rice fields and river valleys. Travellers tour it by wooden boat.

Boats leave Salenrang village for a round trip of about 90 minutes among the towers. They stop at Telaga Bidadari, a lake in the karst. Some also stop at a cave with prehistoric paintings. In the early morning, mist gathers among the towers. The name means "cloud-like" in the Makassar language.

Leang-Leang Prehistoric Park is a short drive away. Its two open caves hold hand stencils and pig paintings. Both are in the Maros-Pangkep karst, a UNESCO Global Geopark since 2023. The karst holds some 300 painted caves and rock shelters.

Half a day covers the boat trip. A full day adds Leang-Leang and the butterflies and waterfalls of Bantimurung. A night in Maros town allows two morning visits. The boats run most reliably in the dry season, July to October.

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Rammang-Rammang, in the Maros karst near Makassar: a wooden boat ride up the Pute river between limestone towers to Berua, a village in the rice fields.

When to go and how to get there

Rain in Rammang Rammang, month by month, and the journey in from the nearest airport.

Driest months

Jul – Oct

August is the driest month, with 21 mm of rain on average. January is the wettest, with 556 mm.

  • Driest months
  • In between
  • Wettest months

January: 556 mm, February: 435 mm, March: 378 mm, April: 205 mm, May: 181 mm, June: 129 mm, July: 51 mm, August: 21 mm, September: 46 mm, October: 98 mm, November: 240 mm, December: 500 mm

Rain: CHIRPS v2.0, Climate Hazards Center, UC Santa Barbara, average of 1991-2020. See the weather in Sulawesi by month

Getting there

  1. 01 · Fly

    To Makassar (UPG)

    Daily flights from Jakarta, Bali and across Sulawesi.

  2. 02 · Drive

    Makassar → Salenrang

    40 km, about 90 min by car. The boats leave from the riverbank in Salenrang village.

  3. 03 · Boat

    Salenrang → Telaga Bidadari

    A wooden boat between the karst towers, about 90 min there and back. In the wet season the river can run high.

Rammang Rammang weather by month

The average rain, temperatures and sea of each month, measured over many years.

MonthRain (mm)High / low (°C)
January55629 / 25
February43530 / 25
March37831 / 25
April20532 / 25
May18131 / 25
June12931 / 24
July5131 / 24
August2132 / 23
September4633 / 24
October9833 / 25
November24033 / 26
December50031 / 25

Rain: CHIRPS, 1991-2020. Temperatures: NASA POWER, 2001-2025.

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