Flower Tour in Minahasa Highland

The highland of Minahasa is a highly recommended destination for tourists who want to see tropical flowers that grow in Indonesia. Minahasa land provides favorable climate for various species of tropical flowers to grow. If we travel across the villages of the region, we could see such flowers as impatiens, bamboo orchid, canna lily, heliconia, and a lot more that grow along the roadside, farmland, and forest edges. 

Flower tour in Minahasa highland

Minahasan villagers like to grow flowers as decorative plants which they put around their house yards. They also sell colourful flower plants in big pots which they put along the roadside. Bougainvillea, anthurium or laceleaf, chrysanthemum, rose and peacock flowers are some of the many flower plants that are often purchased by buyers from Manado city, Bitung, Tondano and Tomohon towns. 

Bougainvillea flower along the roadside of Tincep village

This flower tour can be combined with other activities such as sightseeing visits to farmland, rice fields in Subdistrict Sonder, mountains, waterfalls and lakes as well as wildlife watching tour to tropical rainforest of Minahasa peninsula in Tangkoko Nature Reserve, and Mount Mahawu. On the average, the duration of this tour is 7 to 14 days. 

Bamboo Orchid in Subdistrict Sonder of Minahasa

Some butterflies that we could see when doing flower tour in Minahasa highland

When we go to see flowers, we will also see butterflies that come to collect nectar. In the above photograph, they are Great Eggfly, Sacred Tabby, Gigon Swallowtail, the Clipper, and Lime Swallowtail butterflies. 

If you are interested in spending your holiday in Minahasa to see flowers, beautiful landscape, beaches, volcano, waterfall and lakes, as well as traditional villages, please, contact me (Charles Roring) by whatsapp to: +6281332245180 or by email to: peace4wp@gmail.com.