2025 Tana Toraja Travel Guide: Must-see attractions, popular food, hotels, transportation routes (updated in March)

A visit to Tana Toraja in South Sulawesi Province will not only feel like you've stepped far back in time, but also offers a look at the richness and diversity of Indonesia's long-standing cultures. The architectural style of Tongkonan, boat-shaped houses and other buildings, are immediate standouts, but the people are what make this piece of natural paradise so special. They are, by many accounts, the friendliest and most welcoming people you could hope to meet while traveling. The Toraja approach to death is one of reverence and celebration. Funerals are elaborate ceremonies involving plenty of food and traditional dance, and the dead are buried in graves built into surrounding caves. Travelers to the area can visit villages and connect with locals, or trek in the notoriously lush and pristine countryside. #tanatoraja

In August every 2 years. The creepy custom of digging up graves to take the bodies of relatives to visit. If you come to Sulawesi, Indonesia, on the occasion of Ma'nene - held every 2 years. You will see thousands of graves opened for relatives to take out the bodies of their loved ones to clean, change clothes, then put them back in the coffin and put them back in the tomb. People here do not bury or cremate, but only inject formalin and soak them in herbs, wrap them in cloth and put them in the coffin. Then put them in caves, tombs or hang them on cliffs. The houses of the Toraja people are also very typical in the shape of boats, their funerals are more grand than weddings - with thousands of people attending and even organizing buffalo sacrifices. This is the largest funeral in the world and the most creepy grave-sweeping ritual. Strangely, Ma'nene falls on the day of Vietnam's ghost festival. From Jakarta or Bali - catch a flight to Makassar then take night bus around 12 hours to Toraja, or catch a wings air. #fahoka #sulawesi #toraja #indonesia #manene

#familytrips2024 This is a small family trip in Tana Toraja which is full of culture. There are lot of tourist destinations there, the highest statue of Jesus in the world, stone graves, Toraja tradisional houses, batutumonga, baby graves in trees, graves in cabes, all off which still preserve tradisional culture, and also tradisional food which is still preserved. For those who like culture travel, it is highly recommended to go to Tana Toraja.

#familytrips2024 This is a small family trip in Tana Toraja which is full of culture. There are lot of tourist destinations there, the highest statue of Jesus in the world, stone graves, Toraja tradisional houses, batutumonga, baby graves in trees, graves in cabes, all off which still preserve tradisional culture, and also tradisional food which is still preserved. For those who like culture travel, it is highly recommended to go to Tana Toraja.

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As a maritime country, Indonesia has so many ranges of beaches. The beach that has unique pink sand to white sand as white as snow. Various uniqueness of the beach is scattered throughout the Indonesian region. Apparalang Beach as people call it. A very beautiful beach on the edge of a steep cliff and directly facing a vast expanse of the blue sea. The interesting thing about this beach is the presence of coral rocks that extend along the coast from north to south in the village. Apparalang Beach is located in the eastern part of the city of Bulukumba, which is about 40 km to the east. A very amazing place to enjoy how beautiful Indonesia’s nature is. #createwithtrip #naturewonders

Tana Toraja Regency is one of the regencies in the province of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The capital city of this regency is in the Makale sub-district. Tana Toraja has an area of ​​2,054.30 km² and in 2021 has a population of 270,489 people with a density of 132 people/km². The Toraja tribe who inhabits mountainous areas and maintains a distinctive lifestyle and still shows an authentic Austronesian lifestyle that is similar to the culture of the Nias tribe in North Sumatra province. This area is one of the leading tourist attractions in the province of South Sulawesi. The indigenous tribes that inhabit Tana Toraja are the Toraja tribe. The Toraja people are a tribe who live in the mountainous region of the northern part of the province of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. The population of the Toraja people is estimated at around 1 million people, and 500,000 of them are in Tana Toraja Regency, North Toraja Regency, and Mamasa Regency. Most of the Toraja people embrace Christianity, while some adhere to Islam and an animist belief known as Aluk Todolo. The Indonesian government has recognized this belief as part of the Hindu Dharma religion. The word Toraja itself comes from the Bugis language, namely "to riaja" which means "people who live in the land above". In 1909, the Dutch colonial government called this tribe the Toraja. The Toraja tribe is famous for its funeral rituals, Tongkonan traditional houses and also various types of wood carvings typical of Toraja. Toraja funeral rituals are important social events, usually attended by hundreds of people and lasting for several days. Before the 20th century, the Toraja tribe still lived in autonomous villages. They previously still adhered to animism and had not been touched by the outside world. In the early 1900s, Dutch missionaries arrived and began to spread Christianity. Then, around the 1970s, Toraja people began to open up to the outside world, and Tana Toraja district (before it was expanded) became a symbol of Indonesian tourism. Then there was the development of Tana Toraja tourism, and it was studied by anthropologists. So that in the 1990s-1s, the Toraja people underwent a cultural transformation, from a society of traditional and agrarian beliefs, to a society that was predominantly Christian and the tourism sector in the Tana Toraja area continued to increase.