Nestled on a Sulawesi mountainside overlooking rice terraces and tropical forest, this simple little hotel started life as a holiday home and still offers a warm family-style welcome.
The facilities are understated but comfortable and well equipped. Interiors are decorated in a cheery local style with colourful textiles and natural materials. Apart from two bungalows that sit next door to each other, each building is very secluded.
Enjoy beautiful views from the terrace with breakfast and pop into the nearby town, just ten minutes away, for a delicious dinner. The surrounding countryside is ideal for trekking and mountain-biking, and you can learn to cook some of those fragrant local specialities with classes in a nearby village. The swimming pool is modelled after the rice terraces, its two tiers flanked by a multi-levelled terrace where you can sit and watch the landscape’s green ripples turn golden as the sun sets.
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Location & Highlights
- Picturesque rice terrace setting
- Infinity pool
- Breakfast terrace
- Trekking & mountain biking
Why we love it
“The drive here from Makassar took just a couple of hours, but we felt a world away.”
Switch off for a while…
Sometimes simplicity is just what we crave, especially when we’re amid the kind of natural beauty that surrounds the Rumah Tengah Sawah. There’s comfort here, and well-placed facilities, but nothing to distract from the purity of the landscape. It makes switching off from the noise of modern life feel that little bit more effortless.
Local life
We’re always looking for travel experiences that get us closer to the daily lives and rhythms of local communities. Although homestays are by far the most immediate way to do this, staying in this kind of bijou hotel feels like a step towards that experience, but with a few more leisure facilities.
What can you do at Rumah Tengah Sawah?
Relax at the hotel with views over the rice terraces, trek or mountain bike through the surrounding landscape, and take cookery classes in the local village.
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