Travel Advisor Bantimurung National Park Makassar

About Bantimurung National Park
Another exotic tourism place that highly recommended by travel advisor when you visiting Makassar beside the Fort Rotterdam is the Bantimurung National Park. This park is a 480 km2 large nature reserve just 45 km north of Makassar / Ujung Pandang. The name Bantimurang is a combination of the words 'membanting kemurungan' which means 'getting rid of sadness'. The park is famous for its many butterflies. When Sir Alfred Wallace visited this area in 1856 he termed it the 'Kingdom of butterflies'. A name still used till today.

Unfortunately the number of species and amount of butterflies has dropped significantly in the last decades. In the first count there were 270 species, a count in 1997 stopped at 147 species.

Travel Advisor Fort Rotterdam Makassar

About Fort Rotterdam

What to do in Makassar? Here's one of the exotic tourist places around Makassar that highly recommended by travel advisor when you are visiting Makassar. That is Fort Rotterdam or so-called "Benteng Ujung Pandang".

The great Fort Rotterdam is an old colonial Dutch fort in Makassar, overlooking the harbor. This is one of the main attractions in Makassar. The fort was built by the Dutch in defending itself around in 1667 but the structure of the first fort built in 1545 by King Tunipalangga with a simple building an earthen wall. Admiral Cornelis Speelman agreed in 1667 and named the fort as the name of his hometown, Rotterdam.