Bantimurung National Park, The Kingdom of Butterflies

Bantimurung National Park is a national park with a range of Bukit Kapur Maros Pangkep which is the second largest Karst area in the world after the Southeast China. Bantimurung is located in Maros regency, South Sulawesi, about 45 kilometers north of Makassar

Bantimurung National Park is also famous for its waterfalls, caves, and butterflies. In 1856-1857 Alfred Russel Wallace spent most of his life in the bantimurung nature tour to examine the various types of butterflies. From the results of this research, Wallace dubbed Bantimurung as "The Kingdom of Butterfly" (Butterfly Work). Until now visitors can still see some species of Butterflies flying around the natural tourist area bantimurung.

.The beauty of Bantimurung National Park

In addition to the beauty of the butterfly, Bantimurung natural park has a waterfall with a height of 15 meters and 20 meters wide, clear and cool water so that become Bantimurung become one of the Tourism Object South Sulawesi is famous and visited by many tourists. Below the waterfall there is a bath made of limestone limestone covered with mineral water with depth from ankles to the waist of adults

Around the waterfall there are 2 caves that became one of the tourist destinations Bantimurung, the Dream Cave and Stone Cave. Throughout the reinforcement in the cave, you will be served with beautiful stalagmites and stalactites, rocks formed from droplets and hanging above the sky, looking beautiful as a collection of crystals.