Old Grave in Toraja

By: Janti Fitri

Londa, Old grave in Toraja

Are you hunting a destination to visit? (roaar.....let's go to hunting place......yaaaakkkk....lol). Maybe you are boring to visit Bali, Jogjakarta or even Jakarta, because you have been visited them every holiday. Let's go to another part in Indonesia. It is South Sulawesi. Where is South Sulawesi? Well...do you know Bunaken-Manado? Well...it is very far from it...(Waaaaakkkk..........lol....nothing to do with that...hahaha) But one thing, South Sulawesi and Manado are in the same island. (Well...at least there's some connection....jiaaaaaaahhh....hmm).

Toraja is located in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, South East Asia. So many interesting things to see there in Toraja, such as the beautiful scenery, the parties, the culture, the food and the famous one is the graves! Why grave?

There are so many ways for Toraja people to "bury" the death body. Some of them will be bury in the ground (well, it is normal way...i guess), in the cave and on the TREE! (WOW..........!)

Ketekesu Grave yard with many human bones all around your visit

There are three gave yard I visited on my last holiday. There are Londa, Ketekesu and Kambira Baby Grave.

For Londa it self has some sad romance. It said, that once upon a time, there were two young couple in love. But because of their love was not agreed by the parents, both of them went to a cave. They were suicide! The guide told me that, their death body hanged up together in a rope. What a tragic love story!

I could feel the mystical aura when the first time I entered the Londa cave. The aura was different than when I entered Ketekesu graveyard. even though Ketekesu cave is older than Londa, but the Ketekesu graveyard is not scary as Londa. ( I mean it is to me....I don't know about you....maybe you don't feel anything...hahahaha).

Kambira Baby Grave, see the tree inside the gate.

Go to another graveyard, it is called as Kambira Baby Grave.

As what it named, it is a Baby Grave. The grave is "in the tree".

The baby that buried here is the baby under 3 years old or toddler. The Toraja people made some small room in the tree then, positioning babies like when they were in the womb. It seems like the baby back to mother's womb and the mother is the tree! (Wow....amazing!)

so, I think there are so many things to visit in Toraja. But you must waiting for another posting. I will tell you more about Toraja.

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