0 Indonesia Travel South Sulawesi - Tanah Toraja

Because of that image sticking Tanah Toraja with its custom home building, as a form of promotion of tourism and to attract Japanese tourists to this area, then the custom house was built in the country "sunrise" it. The building is done by the people themselves and the Toraja tourism entrepreneurs brought to negari sakura. Now in Japan, there are two Tongkonan Tongkonan very similar to the original. Tongkonan presence always made the country's admiration because of its unique. The difference with those in Tanah Toraja is located in the roof just use bamboo. 

There are many other attraction of Tanah Toraja in addition to solo ceremonial sign (funeral) which is famous for this. Name the baby graves in the trees in the village Kambira Tarra, Sangalla District, about 20 kilometers from Rantepao, prepared for the baby's body aged 0-7 years.

Toraja Land, is a tourist attraction known for its cultural richness. District which is located approximately 350 km north of Makassar is very famous for its custom home building form. The traditional house is named Tongkonan. The roof is made of split bamboo and are prepared to pile up, but now many are using zinc. Tongkonan also has appropriate degrees of nobility strata strata of society such as gold, bronze, iron and brass.

Although burying the baby in the tree Tarra was not implemented since the last decades, but the tree where "bury" dead baby was still upright and visited by many tourists. On top of a tree whose fruit Tarra like breadfruit commonly used as a vegetable by the locals with a circle around the tree trunk 3.5 meters, saved dozens of baby's body.

Before the body is inserted into the trunk of the tree, the first tree was hollowed out and then placed into a dead baby and then covered with black palm tree fibers. After decades, the baby's body will blend with the tree. It is an attraction for the traveler and for the Tanah Toraja still considers sacred place like a newborn child.

The placement of the baby's body on the tree is well adapted to the social strata of society. The higher the degree of social family then the higher the place the baby was buried in the Tarra tree. In fact, infants who died placed in the direction of the bereaved family residence. If the house is in the western part of the tree, then the child's body will be placed in the west.

Grave Stone, one of the graves form the Toraja people

 

To reach this amazing Tanah Toraja are domestic airlines Makassar - Toraja are now only once a week and put on a small plane berpenumpang eight people, which took 45 minutes from the airport Hasanuddin Makassar. If by land, which is quite tiring journey takes seven to ten hours.

Event of interest in this tourist area that is the burial ceremony (signs solo) and signs tuka (thanksgiving feast) which is a fixed calendar each year. In addition to the event, visitors can see up close the other interesting cultural attractions such as the storage of dead bodies in the shelter shaped "container" giant size with a width of 3 meters and a height of 10 meters and tongkonan 600 years old in Londa, Rantepao.

Party Signs Solo 'or feast / ritual funeral

 

 

This is a small part of the many tours offered by the charm Toraja tana as a tourist destination south sulawesi mainstay.
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