Tana Toraja, South Sulawesi Tourism Mainstay

District is a district of Tana Toraja in South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. The capital of this district is Makale. Before the expansion, the district has an area of 1990 km ².

Toraja tribe who inhabit the mountain areas and maintain a distinctive lifestyle and still show the original Austronesian lifestyle and culture are similar to Nias. This area is one tourist attraction in South Sulawesi.

Tana Toraja, a tourist attraction known for its cultural wealth. The district is located about 350 km north of Makassar is very famous with their customary form of house building. The traditional house called Tongkonan. The roof is made of split bamboo and are prepared overlap, but now many are using zinc. Tongkonan also has a suitable degree of nobility strata strata of society such as gold, bronze, iron and brass.

tongkonan - Toraja traditional house peopleI was so so attach image with Tana Toraja house building is customary, as a form of promotion of tourism and to attract Japanese tourists to this region, then the custom house was built in the country "sunrise" is. The building itself is done by the Toraja people and tourism entrepreneurs trafficked into the country of cherry. Now in Japan, there have been two very similar Tongkonan Tongkonan original. Attendance Tongkonan always wowed the country community for its unique. The difference with those in Tana Toraja is located on the roof only using bamboo.

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

cemetery trees in Tana TorajaAlthough babies buried in a tree Tarra was not implemented since the last decades, but the tree where "bury" the baby's corpse was still upright and visited by many tourists. On top of the tree whose fruits resemble Tarra breadfruit commonly used as a vegetable by the local population with a circle of trees about 3.5 meters, saved dozens of dead babies.

Pallawa
Tongkonan Pallawa is one tongkonan or traditional house that very interesting and were among the bamboo trees on the hilltop. Tongkonan is decorated with a number of buffalo horn that is attached at the front of traditional house. Located about 12 km to the north of Rantepao.

                                                              Londa

Londa is the steep rocks on the side of a typical tomb Tana Toraja. One was located on high ground from the hill with a cave in which the corpse crates are set according to the family line, the other one left open hillside views overlooking the green expanse. Located about 5 km to the south of Rantepao.

Ke'te trouble

The object of this charming village of Tongkonan, rice barns and buildings in the surrounding megaliths. About 100 yards behind this village there is a cliff with the grave cemetery site dependent and tau-tau in a given building stone fence. Tau-tau shows the daily appearance of the owner. This village is also known as carving skills possessed by its inhabitants as well as a great place to shop for souvenirs. Located about 4 km from southeast Rantepao.

Stone Tumonga
In this area you can find about 56 stone menhirs in a loop with 4 trees in the middle. Most stone menhir has a height of about 2-3 meters. From here you can see the beauty of Rantepao and surrounding valleys. Located in Sesean area with an altitude of 1300 Meters above sea level.

Lemo
This place is often referred to as the home of the spirits. In the cemetery you can see the corpses Lemo yanng stored in the open air, amid the steep rocks. This cemetery is the combination of death, art and ritual. At certain times clothing from the bodies will be replaced with a ceremony Ma 'Nene.

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