Curious with Tombs typical in Toraja? Let's read this article

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Londa. Rounding out the typical tomb in Toraja, Tana Toraja this time has Londa is a tomb complex located on a rock cliff. Londa has become one of the attractions in Tana Toraja that you must visit. He said, not to Toraja otherwise been to Londa. Wow, interesting, huh?

Londa is located approximately 7 km south of the city of Rantepao. Rantepao town itself is a city that became the center of tourism as well as accommodation for tourists who come to Tana Toraja. Its strategic location makes Londa can be visited by various modes of transportation such as a motorcycle taxi, minibus, or car rental. It is surrounded by mountains makes the atmosphere around Londa became cool and tend to be rather cold. Upon entering the Londa area, you will experience a different feel. The combination of mystique and cool weather tends to be cold.

Along the cliffs in the cemetery Londa, there are caves or holes that are deliberately created and sculpted to put the coffin containing the corpse. Not just any coffin containing the body may be placed in the cave that is in this Londa. Normally, setting coffin placement tailored to the family line. Interestingly, in every cave or hole in the rock placed a row of wooden statues, called Tau-Tau. Rows of wooden sculpture is not an ordinary statue but a statue carved and sculpted in such a way to resemble the deceased were laid in the cave.

The process of carving and chisels were not arbitrary. Every detail the faces of people who had died were also noted eg wrinkles or sagging lines that exist on the face. Not only that, the wood is selected to serve as the statue was a yellow jackfruit wood and closer to human skin color. Rows of this sculpture seems to be a "guard" burial cave at once a representation of the identity of the bodies which are generally located on the headstone. Around a row of Tau-Tau also contained the coffins or the so-called erong whose position is supported by the timber. Propped up by wooden coffins located at the top of a steep cliff that will be safe and not fall. Coffins is what is called a hanging tomb.

For the people of Tana Toraja, erong coffin or buried by hanging this is a special crate for the nobility and the nobility who died. The high placement layout coffin in the cliff adapted to rank or degree of the nobility. The higher the degree or title of the deceased nobleman, the higher is also the location of the casket was placed in the rock. Tana Toraja appropriate public confidence, the higher the location of grave sites bodies, the faster also arwaah of these bodies to heaven or nirvana. Interested to look directly at the Toraja tomb complex Londo? Prepare yourself, yes!

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