Odd tourist village in Indonesia "TORAJA"

 storage of corpses

 tradisional house

Tanah Toraja , a famous tourist attraction with its cultural wealth . District which is located approximately 350 km north of Makassar, sulawesi Selatan (INDONESIA) is very famous with their customary form of house building . This custom home is named Tongkonan . The roof is made of split bamboo and arranged piles , but now many are using zinc . Tongkonan also have appropriate degrees of nobility strata strata of society such as gold , bronze , iron and brass .

Tongkonan - traditional house Toraja
So once the embedding image by Tanah Toraja houses is customary , 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 itself is done by the Toraja people and carried off to negari cherry tourism entrepreneurs . Now in Japan , there are two Tongkonan very similar to the original Tongkonan . The presence Tongkonan always make people amazed the country because of its unique shape . The difference with those in Tanah Toraja is located in the roof just using bamboo .

There are many charms of Tanah Toraja in addition to traditional ceremonies signs solo ( funeral ) which has been famous for this . Call the baby graves in the trees at Kampung Kambira Tarra , District Sangalla , about 20 kilometers from Rantepao , prepared for the bodies of infants aged 0-7 years .

Cemetery tree in Toraja land
Although burying the baby in the tree Tarra it had not done since the last decades , but the tree where " bury " dead baby was still upright and visited by many tourists . At the top of the tree that has fruit similar Tarra breadfruit commonly used as a vegetable by the locals with a circle around the tree trunk 3.5 meters , saved dozens of bodies of babies .

Before the body was put into the trunk , the tree was hollowed first dead baby then placed into the fiber and then covered with black palm tree . After decades , the baby 's body will blend with the tree . It is an attraction for travelers and for people Toraja is still considered a 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 degree of social family that then the higher the place the baby was buried in the tree trunk Tarra . 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 .

To reach this amazing Toraja Land lines are domestic flights Makassar - Toraja Land is currently only once a week and put on a small passenger plane eight people , which takes 45 minutes from Hasanuddin Airport Makassar . If by land , this rather tedious journey takes seven to ten hours .

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

The traditional ceremony

death ceremony

graves in tree trunk

folk event