Tana Toraja

Tana Toraja (3,206 km²) is a regency in South Sulawesi, the home of Toraja ethnic group people. Its capital is Makale. But the center of Toraja culture is in Rantepao.As a main tourist destination, hundreds of thousands of visitors have visited Tana Toraja. Tana Toraja is a fantastic mountainous region. After the entrance to Tana Toraja, we enter a majestic landscape with giant gray, granites and stones and blue mountains.

Tana Toraja has a specific and unique funeral ceremony, called Rambu Solo. Dead body is not buried, but it is put in Tongkonan for several times, even can be more than ten years until the family have enough money to held the ceremony. After ceremony, the dead body is brought to the cave or to the wall of the mountain. The skulls show us that the dead body is not buried but just put on stone, ground, or in the hole.

Location:
northern part of South Sulawesi
300 km north of Makassar

Destinations:
Batutumonga (valley view)
Sa'dan (traditional village)
Palawa (traditional village)
Bori (tall menhir stones)
Rantepao (town)
Kete Kesu (traditional village)
Londa (graves on steep rocky side)
Lemo (stone grave on cliff side)
Suaya (royal graveyard)
Kambira (baby grave)
Buntao (grave)
Marante (stone grave)
Tondon (stone grave)
Buntu Kalando (traditional house)
Penanian (traditional house)
Makula (hot spring)
Makale (town)

Sub-districts: Bituang, Bonggakaradeng, Buntao Rantebua, Makale, Mengkendek, Rantetayo, Saluputti, Sangalla,Simbuang