Roxtours

Toraja, whose name in local language means "people of the highland", they are around half million and they live in the mountainous inside of Sulawesi in a sour and steep zone, flood of rocks and deep valleys, cultivated where possible is, with splendid rice-fields in terrace deprived of artificial irrigation.
The legend narrates that the people of the Torajas reached Celebes around three thousand years ago on board of boats, whose form vaguely remembers the typical one this earth's residence: the tongkonan.
The architecture of these constructions is similar to a hull supported on poles of support; the roof to saddle is gotten weaving various layers of thin bamboo to get the enough thickness not to make to filter water during the season of the rains.
The motive for a trip in this Indonesian island is without tied up doubt to the religiousness of this people and more precisely to their funeral ceremonies.
The funeral rites Torajas are not of the simple funerals, they are grandiose events that ask for long preparations, sacrifices of animals and public demonstrations. The "great" funeral serves to the corpses as help for heaven, but also to the alive ones as occasion to regularize meetings of social, engagements and straight marriages.
After the long preparations of the family (at times it can last some months), the real ceremony begins with the deposition of the body of the "dying" (up to this moment the corpse is considered sick) on a surface surrounded by slopes on purpose built for entertaining the relatives and the inhabitants of the village. During the celebrations of the first night, songs tune up it accompanied by dances and sacrifices of chickens and pigs in honor of the trip of the "dying" toward the new world.
The following steps of the ceremony are the ceremony of taking the habit of the corpse and the deposition in the atrium of the tongkonan, the typical residence Toraja.