ENGLISH naturalist, Alfred Wallace, decided to stay in Bantimurung mountainous area in 1856 until 1857. He interested in the colors of butterfly. He was more interested when he knew some of butterflies are rare species. Now, the place called The Butterfly Kingdom.

Location of Objects
Object located in the same region with Bantimurung Waterfall Tourism Object, at Bantimurung District, Maros Regency, Province of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. It's about 15 kilometers east of Maros Regency Capital or 45 km north of the of Makassar centre city. Butterfly Kingdom located in the range of rocky mountain of Maros-Pangkep.

Overview
The location is spectacular as it considered in the valley of steep limestone hills with lush tropical vegetation. That is a perfect requirement environment to be a habitat for many kinds of rare butterfly. There are also rare birds. According to Wallace, so many little places like this in the world.

One type of butterfly lives in that location is papillo androcoles. This is biggest and very rare butterfly. It tile like bird tile. At this time, you can still watching the beautiful colorful butterfly. Fly every which way between the flowers and bushes that meet the rocky-stone mountain.

In recent years, the population of butterfly there now is much reduced because of uncontrollable arrest by people. Resident catches and makes it to be gifts. Luckily, Butterfly Breeding Center, an organization formed specifically to conduct rescue the endangered species from extinction, has been carrying out protection.

Access
To reach the Kingdom of butterfly, you can use several ways. Can use private cars or rent a car or through reservation of Sultan Hasanuddin International Airport. There is also public transportation. Trip to tourism object takes about two hours.

With private cars or rent car, you can through to Reformasi highway or Port highway, and then follow the entrance to Sutami highway, next to Maros. From Maros take the direction to Bantimurung. Also can through Perintis Kemerdekaan Road or without going to the highway.

With public transport, you can start the trip from Daya Regional Bus Station, take transportation to Maros. Get off at the Maros terminal and connect to Bantimurung.

Quoted from :http://orbit99tours.blogspot.com/2010/03/kingdom-of-butterfly.html

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