Village Walks
Ancestral villages with living megalithic tombs.
Culture
Cultural Experience Packages
Pasola, ancestral villages and ikat weaving. Sumba keeps one of Indonesia's most intact indigenous cultures — Marapu traditions, megalithic tombs and clan villages you can still visit as a guest rather than a spectator.
- Pasola Festival
- Ikat Weaving
- Megalithic Villages
Living Culture
Indonesia's Living Cultural Treasure
The Sumbanese maintain ancient Marapu animist traditions alongside striking megalithic tomb architecture and clan-based villages. A cultural stay here offers experiences that exist nowhere else.
- Marapu animist traditions
- Megalithic tomb architecture
- Clan-based villages
- The Pasola festival
The Spectacle
Pasola: Sumba's Greatest Spectacle
An ancient ritual jousting festival held in West Sumba, usually February or March. Hundreds of horseback riders charge each other throwing spears — a ceremonial display of rivalry and harvest celebration, and one of the most dramatic traditional events in Indonesia.
- Held across Kodi, Lamboya, Gaura and Wanokaka
- Dates set by lunar calendar and nyale sea worms
What You Will Do
Cultural Experiences
Genuine community experiences, not staged performances.
Timing
Best Time for Cultural Travel
Some things run year-round; others are fixed to a season.
We build cultural itineraries around Sumba's finest resort stays.
Enquire About Dates
Cultural Bookings
Plan Your Cultural Experience
Tailored cultural itineraries integrated with Sumba's finest resorts. Tell us your dates and we will do the rest.
Enquire Now