Krast Maros - World Heritage in The Land of Celebes - Indonesia

Rows cluster rock cliffs towering into the sky and stretching up to 43,750 hectares. Synergy with the blue sky contrasting with the green vegetation that is still natural and shaded by a thin mist, making the atmosphere was quiet, quiet, but romantic and mystical impressed. Yup! The impression that I felt when my first set foot in the Karst Maros areas (tower karst) or better known as the Stone Forest which was named the second largest and most beautiful in the world.

Stone Forest is a world heritage which is formed from the dissolution of limestone occurred thousands of years ago. Located on the road axis between the Makassar-Toraja tourists sites makes this a beautiful natural panorama of natural parks that are served to everyone who crossed the road trans-Sulawesi. However, world-class attraction is still not too in exposed so rarely visited by tourists. Though this saves a lot of uniqueness that can only be found in the region is world heritage.

It is Located in the village hamlets salengrang ramang-ramang, Maros regency, South Sulawesi. Karst Maros area can be reached by land transportation from the city of Makassar approximately 1.5 hours. Then to go into the forest of stone, we must use a local fishing boat to pass through the mangrove forest that blends with palm and pandanus trees that grow wild in the left-right path that we've been through. Occasionally we passed the rocky cliffs are home to Salalah habitat of one type of eagle. But what makes me more amazed again as it passes through a tunnel of huge chunks of rock that formed naturally. A ride on this boat takes approximately half an hour.

Uniqueness Karst Maros
When I first set foot in the forests of our stones are treated to harsh landscape of rocky cliffs that rose and green vegetation that is still meeting. But there are some interesting things can we meet this region. Including the following;

Goa-Goa, amounting to 268 and is the prehistoric site of the World.
Not only the beautiful stalactite and stalagmite caves served by existing Maros karst region, but the cave ornaments are formed from the leaching of carbonate rocks naturally makes it more beautiful caves to explore in deeper. Plus paintings on cave walls that are relics of prehistoric times, as well as some relics such as pottery and arrowheads that are serrated tools humans in prehistoric times. other than that here also discovered the longest cave in Indonesia, namely Salukkan Kallang cave, which extends for 27 km. as well as the deepest cave in Indonesia in the form of single wells, as deep as 260 meters in Leang Leaputte.
Rare biota danEndemik

In addition to the charming landscape and prehistoric relics are still preserved. Stone forest area is also saving rare and endemic biota, among which only one in the world. There are black monkey (Macaca Maura) and 125 species of rare butterflies. But there are some animals that tegolong very rare and has not been identified, such as the spider cave new species of palms of the hands of adults, blind cave fish are transparent, spider crab, branch-nosed bats, blind cave shrimp who was transparent, several types of crickets cave that has not been identified, and several other endemic animals.

Stone forest area is very wide. The wide to pass through several counties in southern Sulawesi, it is still an area with national park Bantimurung that in a claim by a British researcher Alfred Russel Wallace, as a natural butterfly palace largest and most comprehensive in the world. other than that this region still many other unique things, it's just a very broad area into two after the china has not been too in the explore by local government