INDONESIA Rantepao and surroundings (Sulawesi)
Londa, Ketekesu, Bori and Palawa.
Villages from round Rantepao, Sulawesi (Celebes).
These Tana Toraja places are of famous for their rock graves and tongkonan houses. Londa has hanging graves.
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Dag 10: Toraja: Tampangallo - Suaya 12/08/09
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Tampangallo Village Toraja Sulawesi Indonesia
Een bezoek aan Tampangallo Village op Sulawesi.
La región de Tana Toraja en Sulawesi, Indonesia.
La región de Tana Toraja, con sus ancestrales tradiciones, ritos funerarios, paisajes y gente encantadora, es uno de los sitios que no se puede perder en un viaje por la isla de Sulawesi.
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TORAJALAND - TAMPANGALLO
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TORAJALAND - SIGUNTU
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Pemuda Tenggelam Di Danau Assa' Tana Toraja
INDONESIA: Rock graves and Tau Tau effigies (Sulawesi) (HD-video).mp4
Music by B-Tribe - Suave Suave.
Lemo, Tampangallo and Suaya.
In Tana Toraja (Sulawesi = Celebes) near the tourists town of Rantepao there are a lot of villages with rock-, cave- and hanging graves.
Of course you'll see several Tau Tau (wooden effigies).
The caves are very large (a whole family can be buried there) and it takes sometimes up to one year to make them (by hand).
Tampangallo: The most EERIE and STUNNING burial cave!
Tampangallo is Tana Toraja’s creepy yet visually interesting and stunningly mysterious cave burial site filled with coffins, skulls and tau tau ( wooden statues of people).
This was the burial site of the ancient royal family.
TORAJALAND - LEMO
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TORAJALAND - SEREALE
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Tana Toraja, Sulawesi
Tana Toraja, Sulawesi
Sulawesi tana toraja Kambira Baby Graves قبور الطفل बेबी कब्र bayi
Baby Graves (Kambira)The third method of burial is reserved for babies (typically a child that hasn’t yet started teething) where they are buried in a tree.A hole is dug out and the baby placed inside the tree, in a standing position. The belief is that they will continue to grow with the tree. The tree in the photo above holds around 20 deceased babies.
Cliff-side graves with tau tau on balconies (Lemo)
The day that we went to the funeral, our guide first took us to Lemo which has a number of burial sites dug into the side of a cliff. These graves in Lemo are supposed to for the descendants of a Toraja chief who reigned over the area centuries ago. What makes these graves so interesting is that each grave has a balcony on which stands the tau-tau – carved effigies of the people buried there.Tau tau were produced to represent the status and wealth of the deceased and were representatives of the deceased, guarding the tombs, and protecting the living. Often, the cliff graves will hold the remains of whole families.The practice of placing tau tau on the graves more or less stopped in the 1980’s thanks to the plundering of the grave sites. Nowadays, the tau tau are hidden behind metal fences on private property.
I actually visited the area back in 1994 (before the hordes of tourists arrived!) and one of my strongest memories was of meeting a tau tau carver at this cliff-side site. I mentioned this to our guide, who mentioned it to the much younger tau tau carver who was working in a small souvenir shop.
Indonesië, Sulawesi, Tana Toraja, Londa
Na de dodenceremonie wordt de overledene bijgezet hoog in een rotsgraf, grot of mausoleum. In het dorp Londa kruipen we door de grot en zien de overledenen en grafkisten.
Cimitirul megalitic Lo Ko Mata din Tana Toraja, Indonezia - 60 de morminte
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Ke'te Kesu Village' Toraja Sulawesi Indonesia
Een bezoek aan Ke'te Kesu Village' op Sulawesi.
Torajaland, Sulawesi - Indonesia
Tana Toraja or Torajaland or Land of the Toraja is an area of South Sulawesi, home to the Toraja ethnic group.
traditional funeral rites of the people of Toraja MVI 4588
The beautifully carved coffins are carried up to the tongkonan
Tana Toraja Culture 110
Toraja Culture 110