Tanah Toraja

Tana Toraja is a famous tourist attraction with its cultural richness. District is located approximately 350 km north of Makassar was very famous with their customary form of house building. This custom home named Tongkonan.

The roof is made of Nipa or coconut leaves and can last up to 50 years. Tongkonan also have the appropriate degree of aristocratic strata of society, like the strata of gold, bronze, iron, and brass.

Because of Tana Toraja attach images with this custom home building, as a form of tourism promotion and to attract Japanese tourists to this region, then the custom house was built in the country's sunrise.

The building was done by his own Toraja people and carried off to the land of cherry tourism entrepreneurs. Now in Japan there have been two Tongkonan very similar to the original Tongkonan. The presence Tongkonan always amaze people of the country because of its unique. The difference with the existing in Tana Toraja is located on the roof only using leaf sago (sago palm).

There are many other attraction besides Tana Toraja ritual signs solo (funeral) that has been notorious for this. Call it baby graves in the tree in Kampung Kambira Tarra, Sangalla District, about 20 km from Rantepao, prepared for the body of a baby aged 0-7 years.

Although burying the baby in the tree Tarra was not implemented since the last decades, the tree where the "save" the baby's body was still upright and much visited by tourists.

Above the tree Tarra - whose fruits resemble breadfruit - a circle of trees about 3.5 meters, saved dozens of dead babies.

Before the body is inserted into the tree trunk, in advance hollowed tree trunk. Placed into a dead baby, then covered with black palm tree fibers. After decades, the baby's body will blend with the tree.

This is an attraction for travelers and for the people of Tana Toraja still consider this place sacred as a newborn child.

Placement of the baby's body on the tree, adapted to the social strata of society. The higher the degree of family social position that the higher the infant who was buried in the trunk Tarra.

In addition, infants who die are 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.

In the meantime, to get this amazing Tana Toraja existing domestic airlines Makassar-Tana Toraja. The flight was only once a week and wear a small plane air passengers  eight people. However, it takes quite short, only 45 minutes from Airport Hasanuddin Makassar. And if by land, which is quite tiring journey takes seven hours.

Events of interest in this tourist area is a burial ceremony (sign solo) and shower (Tuka signs) which is a fixed calendar each year.

In addition to these events, visitors can see up close the other interesting cultural attractions, such as storage bodies in the shape of the container body holding a giant size with a width of 3 meters and a height of 10 meters and tongkonan 600 years old in Londa, Rantepao.