Sulawesi
Sulawesi is the strangest-shaped major island on earth — four long peninsulas radiating from a mountainous centre, the product of two continental fragments colliding — and that geography has kept its regions distinct from one another. In the south, Tana Toraja holds funeral ceremonies that run for days, with buffalo sacrifice, cliff graves and carved effigies of the dead watching from the rock. Near Makassar, limestone caves hold figurative paintings dated to more than forty thousand years, among the oldest known anywhere. In the north, the Lembeh Strait is the acknowledged capital of muck diving and Bunaken has wall diving to match. And in between are endemic animals found nowhere else: babirusa, anoa, tarsiers and the maleo.
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14 in-depth guides to Sulawesi — food, nightlife, beaches, transport, money and the practical detail that is hard to find.