Tana Toraja

Tana Toraja, a famous tourist object with its cultural richness. Regency is about 350 km north of Makassar is situated very popular with the common form of housing. The traditional house called Tongkonan. The roof is made of coconut leaves or Nipah disease and survived for 50 years. Tongkonan also appropriate degree of nobility were layers of society, such as gold, bronze, iron and brass.
Besides the traditional ceremonies to sign a solo (the cemetery), which has been famous for this in Tana Toraja. There is also a baby's grave in a tree in Kampung Kambira Tare, Alla Sang district, about 20 kilometers from Rantepao, prepared for the body of a child of 0-7 years.
Tana Toraja
Although babies buried in the tree Tare not implemented it since the last decades, but the tree "buried" in the baby's body remains straight and are often visited by tourists. At the top of a fruit tree that similar Tarra usual breadfruit used as a vegetable by the local population with a circle around the trunk 3.5 meters, dozens rescued from the body of the baby.
Before the uptake in tree trunks, tree holes and then placed in the body of babies then covered with a black palm fiber. After ten years, the baby's body united with the tree. This is an attraction for travelers and for people of Tana Toraja is still regarded as holy places, such as newborn child.
Placing the body of the babies on the tree is adapted to the social strata of society. The higher the social level, the higher the family was also the place where the baby was buried in the trunk Tarra. In fact, children who died placed under the direction of the grieving family home. When her house is on the western portion of the tree, then the body of child will be placed on the west.
Interesting event at this resort is that the body's funeral (solo signs) and signs Tuka (thanksgiving feast), a fixed calendar each year. Besides these events, visitors can see at close quarters for a number of other interesting attractions such as the corpse on the safe disposal of the body shaped "container" giant size with a width of 3 meters and 10 meters high and tongkonan 600-year-old in Londa, Rantepao .