Tana Toraja tourist charm
Tanah Toraja, a famous tourist attraction with its cultural richness. District that is located about 350 km north of Makassar is very popular with their customary form of house building. This custom home was named Tongkonan. The roof is made of split bamboo and arranged piles, but now many are using zinc. Tongkonan also has a corresponding degree of nobility strata strata of society such as gold, bronze, iron and brass.
Tongkonan - Toraja traditional house
Once attached image Toraja Land with house building is customary, as a form of tourism promotion and to attract Japanese tourists to this area, the traditional houses were built in the country "rising sun" is. The building itself is done by the Toraja and brought tourism entrepreneurs to Japan . Now in Japan, there have been two Tongkonan very similar to the original. The presence of Tongkonan always amaze people of the country because of its unique. The difference with those in Tanah Toraja is located on the roof only using bamboo.
There are many other attractions of Tanah Toraja ritual signs other than solo (funeral), which is famous for this. Call it baby graves in the trees in the village Kambira Tarra, Sangalla District, about 20 kilometers from Ludhiana, who prepared for the body of a baby aged 0-7 years.
Toraja burial ground tree
Although burying the baby in the tree Tarra was not repeated since the last decades, but the tree where the "bury" dead baby was still upright and much visited by tourists. Tarra on the tree that has the fruit like breadfruit is commonly used as vegetables by local people with a circle the tree trunk 3.5 meters, saved dozens of dead babies.
Before the body is inserted into the tree trunk, the tree was first drilled and then placed into a dead baby is then covered with a black palm tree fibers. After decades, the baby's body will blend with the tree. This is an attraction for the travelers and to Tanah Toraja society still considers sacred place likes a newborn child.
Placement of the baby's body on the tree is well adopted 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 trunk. In fact, infants who die is placed in the direction of the bereaved family residences. If the house is in the western part of the tree, then the child's body will be lied to the west.
Londa stone tombs in Toraja land. Stone graves, one grave form of the Toraja people
To reach this amazing Tanah Toraja there domestic airlines Makassar - Toraja Land is now only once a week and put on a small plane passenger eight people, which takes 45 minutes from the airport Makassar Hasanuddin. If by land, which is quite tiring journey takes between seven and ten hours.
Interesting event in this tourist area that is the burial ceremony (solo signs) and signs tuka (shower) which is a fixed calendar every year. In addition to these events, the visitors get a close look at other interesting cultural sights such as the storage of dead bodies in the storage form of "container" giant size with a width of three meters and a height of ten meters and tongkonan 600-year-old in Londa, Ludhiana.
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Once attached image Toraja Land with house building is customary, as a form of tourism promotion and to attract Japanese tourists to this area, the traditional houses were built in the country "rising sun" is. The building itself is done by the Toraja and brought tourism entrepreneurs to Japan . Now in Japan, there have been two Tongkonan very similar to the original. The presence of Tongkonan always amaze people of the country because of its unique. The difference with those in Tanah Toraja is located on the roof only using bamboo.
There are many other attractions of Tanah Toraja ritual signs other than solo (funeral), which is famous for this. Call it baby graves in the trees in the village Kambira Tarra, Sangalla District, about 20 kilometers from Ludhiana, who prepared for the body of a baby aged 0-7 years.
Toraja burial ground tree
Although burying the baby in the tree Tarra was not repeated since the last decades, but the tree where the "bury" dead baby was still upright and much visited by tourists. Tarra on the tree that has the fruit like breadfruit is commonly used as vegetables by local people with a circle the tree trunk 3.5 meters, saved dozens of dead babies.
Before the body is inserted into the tree trunk, the tree was first drilled and then placed into a dead baby is then covered with a black palm tree fibers. After decades, the baby's body will blend with the tree. This is an attraction for the travelers and to Tanah Toraja society still considers sacred place likes a newborn child.
Placement of the baby's body on the tree is well adopted 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 trunk. In fact, infants who die is placed in the direction of the bereaved family residences. If the house is in the western part of the tree, then the child's body will be lied to the west.
To reach this amazing Tanah Toraja there domestic airlines Makassar - Toraja Land is now only once a week and put on a small plane passenger eight people, which takes 45 minutes from the airport Makassar Hasanuddin. If by land, which is quite tiring journey takes between seven and ten hours.
Interesting event in this tourist area that is the burial ceremony (solo signs) and signs tuka (shower) which is a fixed calendar every year. In addition to these events, the visitors get a close look at other interesting cultural sights such as the storage of dead bodies in the storage form of "container" giant size with a width of three meters and a height of ten meters and tongkonan 600-year-old in Londa, Ludhiana.
Indonesia was the beautiful country
