Central Sulawesi,”The Land that Time Forgotten”
It’s like a scene from one of the Indiana Jones movies. Trekking through the dense jungle, the guide ahead wielding his machete left an right, hacks a narrow path trough the undergrowth. Ascending the last few metres up a steep rise we arrive at a small clearing. There, in the dappled sunlight filtering through the forest canopy, stands a carved megalithic statue - a human figure,perhaps thousands of years old, its impenetrable gaze staring out across the valley and across the centuries. It’s not a movie though, we’re in the Besoa Valley of Central Sulawesi inside the Lore Lindu National Park. And this kind of adventure travel is typical of the myriad of exciting destinations just waiting to be discovered in Indonesia - the world’s largest archipelago.
