Toraja

Toraja is one of Indonesia tourist attraction, inhabited by a tribe that inhabited the mountains of Toraja and maintain a typical lifestyle and still show the original Austronesian lifestyle and culture are similar to Nias. This area is one of the tourist attraction in South Sulawesi.

Pallawa

Tongkonan Pallawa is one tongkonan or custom homes are very attractive and were among the bamboo trees on the hilltop. Tongkonan is decorated with a buffalo horn that is attached at the front of the custom house. Located about 12 km to the north of Rantepao.

Londa

Londa is the steep rocks on the side of the tombs typical of Tana Toraja. One of them is located at high altitudes of the hills with caves in which the coffin-coffin set according to the family line, on the one side of a hill overlooking the views of others left open expanse of green. Located about 5 km to the south of Rantepao.

Ke'te Kesu

Fascinating objects in the village of Tongkonan, granary and surrounding buildings megaliths. About 100 yards behind the village there are cliffs with cemetery cemetery site dependent and tau-tau in a given building stone fences. Tau-tau shows the daily appearance of their owners. This village is also known sculpture with the expertise possessed by its inhabitants as well as a great place to shop for souvenirs. Located about 4 miles from the southeast Rantepao.

Stone Tumonga

In this area you can find around 56 stone menhirs in a loop with 4 trees in the middle. Most stone menhir has a height of about 2-3 meters. From here you can see the beauty Rantepao and the surrounding valley. Located in an area Sesean with altitude 1300 meters above sea level.

Lemo

This place is often referred to as the home of spirits. At the funeral Lemo yanng we can see dead bodies are stored in the open air, amid the steep rocks. This cemetery is a mix between death, art and ritual. At certain times of the clothes the bodies will be replaced with a ceremony Ma 'Nene.

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