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Exotica Bats in Soppeng City

There is a unique landscape that welcomes you upon entering the heart of Soppeng District, South Sulawesi, which is located in District Watang Soppeng.

The noisy sound of thousands of bats, or also called fruit bats, with a distinctive pungent aroma you will feel easy when set foot there. This becomes an exotic sight in itself. Colonies of thousands of bats is then a landmark district Soppeng known as the City of Bats.

Exotica Bats in Soppeng City

It is not known exactly when exactly bats began nesting in the trees that line the streets of the city Watang Soppeng. However, the District believes the presence of bats Soppeng that resembled a rat has been since hundreds of years ago.

Besides regarded as the "keeper" of the city Watang Soppeng, if the bats are going for a long time, people believed a sign of coming disaster in the area.

Although located in the midst of hectic urban bat Soppeng still hanging in the trees without being disturbed. Soppeng landscape will look more exotic evening. Simultaneously, the colony of bats removing the grip of the trees and flying branches and covered the sky Soppeng.

Exotica bat to pull tourists to perpetuate or just stop by to see the activity of the colony of bats whose numbers continue to grow and is estimated to have reached thousands of individuals.


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