1. Londa cave tombs
Londa is one attraction that must be visited by the tourists. Inside the cave there are hundreds of skulls, and thousands of bones, which some hundreds of years old. There are also coffins are still new. However, the air inside the cave was cool and odorless. Londa Cave, is the cemetery on the cliffs, one side of the grave was in the height of the hill, has a deep cavern, where bodies crates in the set, and are grouped based on family lines. On the other hand, from dozens of tau-tau (the statues) are hidmat standing on the balcony like a living face, open eyes gaze with wibawah. Londa is a natural cave that serves as a cemetery. Londa has two caves that can be entered by visitors. Two caves are interconnected, but visitors should be half crawling. The length of this cave is about 1000 meters. Londa Cave has the story of Romeo-Juliet romantic version of Toraja.
2. Grave stone lemo
This place is often referred to as the home of spirits. At the funeral Lemo you can see the dead bodies are stored in the open air, amid the steep rocks. This cemetery is a blend of death, art and ritual. Lemo is a rocky wall tombs, and statues (tau-tau). Number of holes there are 75 pieces of ancient stone, and tau-tau standing some 40 pieces, as symbols of prestige, status, role and position of the nobility in the village Lemo. Lemo named because the stone canal model is there that resembles a round orange and speckled. Here the bodies are placed in holes in a rock cliff wall. People used to emboss this cliff over the years, so that the bodies of the deceased can be planted in it. The higher the location of his casket, meaning also the higher social strata. In Tana Toraja Lemo Stone Tombs can be seen porch tau-tau on the steep rock walls, overlooking the open kealam. Tau-tau Grave Stone Lemo, or small wooden statues that are considered human beings embody the spirit of the dead are made of wood, or bamboo. Periodically clothes can be replaced through a ceremony called Ma'nene (salute to parents).
3. The oldest grave stone in the village of Kete' Ke'su
Before, people familiar with the more advanced cultures, the Toraja caskets put the corpse in the cliffs without the plant. Visible bones strewn around the cliffs and crates that are fragile, and hollow. These crates are thousands of years old. This cemetery is older when compared to the graves at Londa and Lemo. At Kete Kesu complex, visitors can also visit the tomb stone, which is located about 50 meters behind tongkonan. The journey continues by climbing a small hill, which is about 10 meters. On the left side of the street terraces, there is the rock, which is filled with holes. In the pits there are human bones and skulls. Bury the stone in Kete 'Ke'su including the oldest in Tator. Age tomb stone was estimated at more than 700 years. When we stepped into a higher place in the rock, can be seen the statues of wood as a picture of those who had been buried there. There are dozens of statues that are placed inside a small gap further inside, with iron-barred door. Tomb stone is quite complicated and expensive manufacture. to make a stone tomb measuring two meters wide, two meters high and two meters deep, it took about 300 days.
4. Baby grave kambira
A special cemetery for babies (baby Graves) in the tarra trees. It appears the black square boxes in the main stem of trees poking. Boxes, is already perforated, and filled with dead baby. The bodies of babies who have not grown teeth buried in the tree Tarra (no longer done since the last decades), but the tree where save the baby's body was still upright, and many visited by tourists. Tree that has fruit like breadfruit, with a circle of tree trunks about 1 to 3.5 meters, saved dozens of dead babies. The body is inserted into the trunks of trees, which advance the tree trunk hollowed out, then covered with palm fiber. Tana Toraja society still considers the place sacred, like a newborn child. Placement of the baby's body in this tree, according to the social strata of society. The higher the degree of social family the higher the baby who was buried in the trunk Tarra. Infants who died, laid in the direction of the bereaved family residences. This cemetery is only done by the Toraja people, followers Aluk Todolo (belief in ancestors). Implementation in a simple ceremony. And just like that baby who was buried without the wrapper, like a baby still in the womb. After decades, the baby's body will blend with the trees.
How interested to visit the tomb in the Toraja?. In addition to a place famous for the tomb of a unique and extreme, Toraja also famous for its tourist attractions and other indigenous traditions, such as Makale Rantepao, Tongkonan Traditional House, Desa Adat Pallawa, Ceremony, Adu Buffalo, Sarungalo Tomb, Carved Wood Tana Toraja, Cain typical Tana Toraja, and others.
