Tana Toraja is the mainstay of tourism in South Sulawesi

Tongkonan - Tanah Toraja

Just like komodo island, Indonesia Also have one ofe the famous tourism Mainstay It is Tanah Toraja. Tanah Toraja is 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.

Because so attached, Tanah Toraja by, the building houses these ancestral lands, 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 negari sakura. Now in Japan, there have been two Tongkonan 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.

Rambusulo- Tanah Toraja

There are many other attraction of Tanah Toraja in addition to traditional ceremonies "rambusolo" (funeral), which is famous for this. Call it baby graves in the trees Tarra, in Kampung Kambira, Sangalla District, about 20 kilometers from Rante Pao, who prepared for the body of a baby aged 0-7 years.

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. On top of fruit trees like breadfruit are commonly used as a vegetable by the local population with a circle around 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. 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 like a newborn child.

grave stone - tana toraja

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 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 laid to the west.

To reach this amazing Tanah Toraja there domestic airlines Makassar - Toraja Land is now only once a week and wear a small aircraft with a payload of 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 3 meters and a height of 10 meters and tongkonan 600-year-old in Londa, RantePao.