Tanah Toraja, South Sulawesi Tourism Pledge

Tanah 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 palm leaves or nipah and can survive up to 50 years. Tongkonan also has a suitable degree of nobility strata strata of society such as gold, bronze, iron and brass.

I was so so attach image Tanah Toraja with this customary home building, as a form of promotion of tourism and to attract Japanese tourists to this region, then the custom house was built in the land of the sunrise. 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 Tanah Toraja is located on the roof only using the leaf sago (sago palm).

There are many other attraction of Tanah 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.

Although babies buried in a tree Tarra was not implemented since the last decades, but the tree where it buried the dead baby still remain 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.

Before the body is inserted into the tree trunk, the tree is first perforated and then placed into a dead baby and then covered with a black palm tree fiber. After decades, the bodies of babies that will blend with the tree. This is an attraction for travelers and to Tanah Toraja people still consider it sacred place like a newborn child.

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, the higher the place of a baby who was buried in the trunk Tarra. In fact, infants who die are placed in the direction of the grieving family residence. If the house is on the western part of the tree, then the child's body will be placed in the west.

To reach this remarkable Tanah Toraja have domestic flights Makassar - Toraja Land that is currently only once a week and wear a small plane berpenumpang eight people, which takes 45 minutes from Hasanuddin Airport in Makassar. If by land, which is quite tiring trip takes seven hours.

Event of interest in this tourist area that is the burial ceremony (solo signs) and signs Tuka (thanksgiving feast) which is a fixed calendar every year. In addition to these events, visitors can see up close other interesting cultural attractions such as storage bodies in the form of a container holding the body of a giant size with a width of 3 meters and 10 meters high and tongkonan 600 years old in Londa, Rantepao. How? Interested to see the uniqueness of this cultural tourism?