These waterfalls 42km from Makassar are set amid lushly vegetated limestone cliffs. It's a highly scenic spot, but beware the absurdly overpriced entrance fee for foreigners.
Looking up, it’s straight out of Jurassic Park, but then you scan the ground level and it’s a classic objek wisata (tourist object), crowded with day trippers on weekends, and peppered with litter and creative concrete. Upstream from the main waterfall there’s another smaller waterfall and a pretty, but treacherous, pool (take a torch to make it through the cave en route).
Bantimurung is also famous for its beautiful butterflies; however, numbers are plummeting, as locals trap them to sell to visitors.
Catch a Damri bus or pete-pete (10,000Rp, one hour) to Maros from Makassar Mall in Makassar, and a pete-pete to Bantimurung (7000Rp, 30 minutes).
