The Bantimurung waterfall and The Kingdom of Butterfly

A famous tourism attraction in South sulawesi, Indonesia, here it is the Bantimurung waterfall. Here, we can enjoy a freshening water and natural view around the waterfall, there are two cave, butterfly museum, and others. The waterfall of Bantimurung has amount 20 metres in width and 15 metres in high. The water is always clear and cool glide from the top of rock mountain to the bottom swiftly along year-round.

You can also take a bath under the waterfall because there are a bathing area had formed by foundation of hard limestone and covered with a layer of minerals due to the flow of water for hundreds of years. The depth of water in the bath area was between ankle to waist. Beside that, in left side of waterfall is concrete stairs about 10 metres in high which is the road to two caves that surround the waterfall, which is the Cave of Dreams and Batu Caves. Before the play of water, you can visit these two caves.

Besides having a stunning waterfall, Waterfall tourist area of Bantimurung also a habitat for many species of rare butterflies, so that the Dutch colonists once call this place as the "Kingdom of Butterfly." Even the British Naturalist, Alfred Rassel Wallace ever stay here for a year (1856-1857) to do a research for 150 of rare butterfly.

Until Nowadays, you still can see the beautifull butterfly with a various species flying around the bush that covered the Rock Mountain. But unfortunately these butterflies are not too much like as before.

The waterfall of Bantimurung is located not far from Hasanuddin airport, in Bantimurung sub-district, district Maros, it is about 45 kilometres from Makassar, in karst Maros area,South Sulawesi. It is about 20 kilometres, and 15 kilometres from Maros city, 50 kilometres from Makassar, the capital of South Sulawesi. From Makassar, it is about an hour to reach the destination. Exactly, from Hasanudin airport the trip can be taken by mikrolet (a public transport) or Tourism Bus about 30 minutes. Happy journey.

Plitvice Waterfall

Plitvice waterfall is part of the plitvice lake ( Croatian: Plitvička jezera, pronounced  [plitˈvitsɛ]) which recognized to be the national park of Croatia. It is located in 44.85' U 15.62' T, in the montainous region of Lika.It was in plitvice eponymous plateau, Croatia, in border with Bosnia and herzegovina.

Plitvice Lakes National Park lies in the Plitvice plateau which is surrounded by three mountains part of the Dinaric Alps: Plješevica mountain (Gornja Plješevica peak 1,640 m), Mala Kapela mountain (Seliški Vrh peak at 1,280 m), and Medveđak (884 m).
The national Park is underlain by karstic rock, mainly dolomite and limestone with associated lakes and caves, this has given rise to the most distinctive feature of the lakes.

There are 16 lakes which are interrelated, ( top clusters are 12 lakes, and buttom cluster are 4 lakes),the upper lake is Gornja lake,and the bottom lake is Donja lake. it is naturally structured tiered from heigh 636 meters to 593 meters. Waters which move out from the lakes is forming Korana river. These lake has been separated naturally by Travertine dam, which is deposite from algae, moss, and bacteria. The formers of Travertine dam is increase about 1 cm per year.This plitvice lake also popular with discolors water (water color changing), such as blue sky,
green, and blue or gray. The discolors water is depend on the amount of minerals or organisms in the water and sun elevation.

In 1979, the plitvice national park has been recognized by UNESCO as World Heritage Site with its status 'danger' on list of World Heritage Site in Danger. With a variety of considerations, the Croatian government set the status of de-mining Efforts. In December 1998 UNESCO issued a list of endangered sites. On this day, Plitvice Lakes are one of the largest tourist attractions in Croatia. In 2000, the park has been expanded by over 102 km ².