Category: Yard & Access

Tana Beru adalah kampung di pesisir Kecamatan Bonto Bahari, Kabupaten Bulukumba, Sulawesi Selatan, tempat kapal kayu besar dikerjakan langsung di atas pasir pantai — tanpa hanggar dan tanpa gambar rencana. Tidak ada loket, tidak ada tiket, dan tidak ada jam…

Two windows work at Tana Beru: the first two hours after sunrise, and the last hour before sunset. Morning gives you texture and activity; evening gives you shape and silhouette. A wide and a short telephoto cover almost everything. And…

Nobody sells admission to Tana Beru. Travel write-ups translate that into “free entry”, which is technically true and practically misleading. There is no ticket booth because the question of admission was never formalised — this is a village shoreline where…

Base yourself at Tanjung Bira, visit Tana Beru in the morning, and go to Ara only if the craft itself is your reason for travelling. Bira has the beach, the hotels and the ferry. Tana Beru has the largest concentration…

Three hours from around 07:30 is enough to walk the working shoreline at Tana Beru properly. Start at the western end, walk east with the sun behind you, and you will pass hulls at every stage of construction in roughly…

Tanjung Bira to Tana Beru is around 12 km and takes roughly 20 minutes by road. There is one main route, it is sealed the whole way, and you cannot really miss the destination — the hulls appear on the…