Tana Toraja, South Sulawesi-Land of The Heavenly Kings
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The road from Makassar or Ujung Pandand Toraja runs along the coast about 130 kilometers and then hits the mountains. After the entry of Tana Toraja enter a majestic landscape with giant gray, granite and stone and blue mountains at a distance after passing the village of Mebali market. Will form a sharp contrast with the green living in fertility, rain-fed terraces and read the rusted of tropical laterite soil. This is Tana Toraja, one of the most beautiful areas of Indonesia.
Tana Toraja has a specific and unique funeral ceremony is called Rambu Solo. In Tana Toraja, dead body is not buried, but that is put into Tongkonan several times, maybe even more than ten years until the family has enough money to held the ceremony. After the ceremony, the corpse was carried to the cave or on the wall of the mountain. The skulls show us that the body is not buried but just put on the stone or earth, or put at the funeral hole.The festival season begins when the last rice has been harvested, usually in late June or July and lasts until September
