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Tanah Toraja, a famous tourism with cultural property. District that is located approximately 350 km to the North Makassar is very popular with home building adatnya. Custom house is called Tongkonan. Roof made of bamboo, and be prepared to roll up, but at this time that many also use zinc. It also has Tongkonan strata according to the degree kebangsawanan society strata, such as gold, bronze, iron and brass.
Tongkonan - custom house Toraja people
Saking so melekatnya image Tanah Toraja adatnya with building this house, as a form of tourism promotion and to menggaet Japanese tourists to this area, the custom house was built in the country "sunrise" is. The building is done by people themselves and diboyong Toraja tourism operators to negari sakura. Now in Japan, already have two Tongkonan which is very similar to the original Tongkonan. Attendance Tongkonan always amazed people make the country because of the unique. The difference with those in Tanah Toraja is located on the roof of the bamboo.

More attraction of Tanah Toraja in addition to custom signs for solo ceremony (funeral), which is famous for this. Grave of an infant on the tree in the village of Tarra Kambira, Sangalla District, about 20 kilometers from Padang, the corpse is prepared for a baby aged 0 - 7 years.

grave tree in Tanah Toraja
Although bury the baby on the tree Tarra was not carried out again since tens of years, but the tree "bury" the baby's corpse was still upright, and many tourists visit. Tarra on the tree like a fruit breadfruit which is used as vegetables by the local population with the circle around the tree trunk 3.5 meters, saved tens of clay babies.

Before the hearse entered into trees, the tree first and then dilubangi corpses to be placed in the baby and then covered with coconut palm fiber black. After tens of years, it remains a baby akan integrates with the tree. This is an attraction for the traveler and to Tanah Toraja people still consider the place sacred, such as a new born child.

The placement of the baby remains in the tree is also tailored to the social strata. The higher degree of social and family that the higher the place the baby buried in the trees is Tarra. In fact, infants who die are placed according to the direction where the family lived sorrow. If the house is in the western part of the tree, the child's corpse will be placed in the west.

grave stone londa in Tanah Toraja
Grave stone, a form of grave Toraja People

To go to Tanah Toraja attention this path there is a domestic flight Makassar - Toraja Land is currently only once a week and use a small plane with eight people, which takes 45 minutes from Hasanuddin Airport Makassar. If the land, which is quite tiring journey this takes seven to ten hours.

Interesting event in the area of this tour is the ritual burial remains (signs for solo) and signs tuka (syukuran party) which is fixed in each calendar year. In addition to the event, visitors can see close objects of cultural interest tours such as storage corpse's corpse in the form of "container" with the giant size of 3 meters wide and 10 meters high and Tongkonan which have aged 600 years in Londa, Rantepao.

parking signs for solo 'in Tanah Toraja

parking signs for solo 'Toraja people

Parking signs for Solo 'or feast / ritual burial ceremony

This is a small part of the charm of the many tours offered by Tana Toraja as a tourist destination south sulawesi mainstay. How? Interested to see this unique cultural tourism?
source:kapanlagi.com