Tips for Travellers
Bemo and ojek is the best local transport and the best way to use for going around to various tourist attractions. In addition you can also hire vehicles (mini bus or jeep) with or without driver to enjoy trips around the countryside.
In Rantepao, exploring the crowded traditional market 'Pasar Bolu' where you can get the best Toraja coffee beans, like Robusta and Arabica. Here you can also find antique bead necklace. If you come to Rantepao on weekly market days don’t miss to stop by at the animal market where the buffalos and pigs are auctioned.
To see the shape of the Toraja house, visit Ke'te-Kesu Village, where you'll find a row of beautifully decorated Tongkonan or ancestral homes and barns. Tongkonan is typical Toraja house saddle-shaped roof, reminiscent of buffalo horns. The walls of a beautiful house decorated with abstract and geometric patterns in natural black, red, white and yellow. Ke'te - Kesu' is also known as bamboo carvings and traditional crafts center.
At Lemo there are "hanging grave" for the nobility. Where a coffin carved above the height of the steep rock cliffs, and the wooden statue of the dead called tau-tau was standing in a row on a balcony overlooking the green paddy fields on the bottom.
In Suaya, there is the tomb of the royal family, while in a graveyard near Sangalla’ there is a baby grave tree. Toraja Ancient Beliefs that infants and children who die will be buried in a tree, where the tree will grow around the corpse.
Visit Pallawa’, Toraja weaving center and a village that is right for you to see the Toraja traditional house called Tongkonan.
Then proceed to Batu Tumonga Highlands, - stone facing the sky - on the slopes Sesean, about 25 km from Rantepao. Here you will find a spectacular panorama of terraced rice fields located in the valley, as if glittering like a patchwork shades of green, scattered with large megalithic stones. A number of these stones have been turned into a graveyard cave. Visiting coffee plantations and walked through the villages.
Sa'dan up to the Barana' is a traditional woven center, located in Sesean about 16 km north of Rantepao. This area is known by the traditional Toraja ikat weaving.
In Rantepao, exploring the crowded traditional market 'Pasar Bolu' where you can get the best Toraja coffee beans, like Robusta and Arabica. Here you can also find antique bead necklace. If you come to Rantepao on weekly market days don’t miss to stop by at the animal market where the buffalos and pigs are auctioned.
To see the shape of the Toraja house, visit Ke'te-Kesu Village, where you'll find a row of beautifully decorated Tongkonan or ancestral homes and barns. Tongkonan is typical Toraja house saddle-shaped roof, reminiscent of buffalo horns. The walls of a beautiful house decorated with abstract and geometric patterns in natural black, red, white and yellow. Ke'te - Kesu' is also known as bamboo carvings and traditional crafts center.
At Lemo there are "hanging grave" for the nobility. Where a coffin carved above the height of the steep rock cliffs, and the wooden statue of the dead called tau-tau was standing in a row on a balcony overlooking the green paddy fields on the bottom.
In Suaya, there is the tomb of the royal family, while in a graveyard near Sangalla’ there is a baby grave tree. Toraja Ancient Beliefs that infants and children who die will be buried in a tree, where the tree will grow around the corpse.
Visit Pallawa’, Toraja weaving center and a village that is right for you to see the Toraja traditional house called Tongkonan.
Then proceed to Batu Tumonga Highlands, - stone facing the sky - on the slopes Sesean, about 25 km from Rantepao. Here you will find a spectacular panorama of terraced rice fields located in the valley, as if glittering like a patchwork shades of green, scattered with large megalithic stones. A number of these stones have been turned into a graveyard cave. Visiting coffee plantations and walked through the villages.
Sa'dan up to the Barana' is a traditional woven center, located in Sesean about 16 km north of Rantepao. This area is known by the traditional Toraja ikat weaving.