Madobak village, Ugai and Matotonan actually not designed for tourist destinations, but the traditional culture and their lives are very sustainable and unique, making this village attracted tourists.
Located at the headwaters of South Siberut. To reach this village of Muara Siberut start, you have to take the route Purou-Muntei-Rokdok-Madobak-Ugai-Butui-Matotonan. Each village has a unique culture, respectively.
Madobak, for example, is famous for its waterfalls Kulu Kubuk cold. This waterfall has two levels with a height of 70 meters. Each village is also famous for its traditional houses, locally known as Uma, and traditional ceremonies performed by Sikerei or Shaman.
This traditional ceremony is usually performed during the wedding and new home, aim to drive out evil spirits. Shaman in the three villages still loyal to wear shorts and a headband (Luat) made of beads colorful.
Some local residents still have a traditional Mentawai tattoo made from sugar cane and coconut charcoal coloring. Tattoos are made by using needles and nails and pieces of wood as the two bearings and a hammer. According to local residents, the process of tattooing is very painful.
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Visited three villages is an amazing experience. Natural life they can be seen from the wooden house Uma, sago processing into their staple food, motor boats on the river and their local cultural diversity.
In this country, people use wood for cooking. Seeing people take their buckets sago with an interesting activity to watch.
Besides visiting the waterfall in the village of Kulu Kubuk Madobak or border area Siberut National Park in the village Matotonan, visitors can interact with the daily life of local communities and participate in their traditional ceremonies.
Transportation
You can visit the countryside with the River Rereget. This river is upstream from the road to the beach in Muara Siberut. With about 3 hours to get to Madobak, 4 hours to Ugai and five or six hours to Mototona by boat motors.
During high season, the travel time will be a little short. You are advised to use a small motor boat known as pompong.
The distance between Muara Siberut and Matotonan, is the most remote village, about 40 km. Unfortunately, Rereget river winding and uphill. You can see the sago trees on both sides of the river.
To visit Muara Siberut from the arrival at Minangkabau International Airport, West Sumatra, visitors have to Muara Padang port by bus. From there, visitors use a boat to cross the Indian Ocean to the island of Siberut.
Schedule boat from Padang to Siberut only twice a week ie Sunday night (New Sustenance source vessel) and Thursday night (Simasin boat) trip around one day mean the boat back to Padang on Tuesday and Friday nights. Ticket price of Rp 105,000 to Rp 125,000.
In addition, there are additional ships operate on the first and second week of every month. Ambu Ambu-ship departed on Saturday evening from Muara Siberut Padang and back from the Padang on Sunday night.
If you take the road from Tuapejat, which is the capital of the Mentawai district from Minangkabau International Airport, you can rent a small plane such as Tiger Air or SMAC to Tuapejat Sipora Island. After that, you can rent a boat for a trip around 3 to 4 hours to Muara Siberut.
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