Tana Toraja is a famous tourist attraction with its cultural richness. Regency is situated about 350 km north of Makassar was very popular with the customary form of house building. The traditional house called Tongkonan. The roof is made from nipa or palm leaves and survived 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 adherence images with this custom home building, as a form of tourism promotion and to hook the Japanese tourists to this region, then the custom house was built in the country's sunrise.
The building itself is done by the Toraja people and trafficked to the country of tourism entrepreneurs sakura. Now in Japan there were two Tongkonan Tongkonan very similar to the original. Attendance Tongkonan always impress people because of the country's unique shape. The difference with existing in Tana Toraja is located on the roof only using the leaves of sago (sago palm).
There are many other attractions in addition to Tana Toraja solo ceremonial sign (funeral) that has been notorious for this. Call your baby's grave in a tree in village Kambira Tarra(Kampung Kambira Tarra), Sangalla District, about 20 km from Rantepao, prepared for 0-7 year-old baby's body.
Although babies buried in the tree Tarra was no longer performed since the last decades, the tree where "save" the baby's corpse was still upright and visited by many tourists.Tarra on the tree - the fruit like breadfruit - a circle of trees around 3.5 meters, saved dozens of baby's body. Before the body is inserted into the trunks of trees, first hollowed tree trunk. Dead baby is placed inside, then covered with a black palm tree fiber. After decades, the baby's body will be united with the tree. This is an attraction for travelers and for people of Tana Toraja still considers sacred place like a newborn child. Placement of the baby's body in this tree, as quoted Kapanlagi, adapted to the social strata of society. The higher the social level, the higher the family's baby who lies buried in a tree trunk Tarra.
In addition, infants who died placed according to the direction of the grieving family dwelling. If her home is in the western part of the tree, then the child's body will be placed on the west.
Meanwhile, to arrive in Tana Toraja, this magnificent Makassar domestic flights there is a path-Tana Toraja. This flight is only once a week and wear a small plane berpenumpang eight people. However, it takes quite a short time, only 45 minutes away from Hasanuddin Airport in Makassar. And if by land, a tiring trip takes seven hours.
Interesting event in the tourism area is the body's funeral (signs solo) and shower (Tuka signs) which is a fixed calendar each year.
In addition to these events, visitors can see close objects other interesting cultural attractions, such as storage reservoirs dead bodies in the form of a giant container sizes with a width of 3 meters and 10 meters high and tongkonan 600-year-old in Londa, Rantepao. (Laksito Adi)
Because of Tana Toraja adherence images with this custom home building, as a form of tourism promotion and to hook the Japanese tourists to this region, then the custom house was built in the country's sunrise.
The building itself is done by the Toraja people and trafficked to the country of tourism entrepreneurs sakura. Now in Japan there were two Tongkonan Tongkonan very similar to the original. Attendance Tongkonan always impress people because of the country's unique shape. The difference with existing in Tana Toraja is located on the roof only using the leaves of sago (sago palm).
There are many other attractions in addition to Tana Toraja solo ceremonial sign (funeral) that has been notorious for this. Call your baby's grave in a tree in village Kambira Tarra(Kampung Kambira Tarra), Sangalla District, about 20 km from Rantepao, prepared for 0-7 year-old baby's body.
Although babies buried in the tree Tarra was no longer performed since the last decades, the tree where "save" the baby's corpse was still upright and visited by many tourists.Tarra on the tree - the fruit like breadfruit - a circle of trees around 3.5 meters, saved dozens of baby's body. Before the body is inserted into the trunks of trees, first hollowed tree trunk. Dead baby is placed inside, then covered with a black palm tree fiber. After decades, the baby's body will be united with the tree. This is an attraction for travelers and for people of Tana Toraja still considers sacred place like a newborn child. Placement of the baby's body in this tree, as quoted Kapanlagi, adapted to the social strata of society. The higher the social level, the higher the family's baby who lies buried in a tree trunk Tarra.
In addition, infants who died placed according to the direction of the grieving family dwelling. If her home is in the western part of the tree, then the child's body will be placed on the west.
Meanwhile, to arrive in Tana Toraja, this magnificent Makassar domestic flights there is a path-Tana Toraja. This flight is only once a week and wear a small plane berpenumpang eight people. However, it takes quite a short time, only 45 minutes away from Hasanuddin Airport in Makassar. And if by land, a tiring trip takes seven hours.
Interesting event in the tourism area is the body's funeral (signs solo) and shower (Tuka signs) which is a fixed calendar each year.
In addition to these events, visitors can see close objects other interesting cultural attractions, such as storage reservoirs dead bodies in the form of a giant container sizes with a width of 3 meters and 10 meters high and tongkonan 600-year-old in Londa, Rantepao. (Laksito Adi)
