Londa Tomb, Interesting Tana Toraja Burial Caves

Tana Toraja has tourist attraction known as Londa, which is a tomb complex located on a rocky cliff. Londa has become one of the main tourist attractions in Tana Toraja that you must visit. Londa is located approximately 7 km south of Rantepao City. The city of Rantepao itself is a city that is the center of tourism and accommodation for tourists who come to Tana Toraja. This strategic location makes Londa can be visited with various types of transportation such as ojek, bemo, or even rental cars.

Its location surrounded by mountains makes the atmosphere around Londa cool and tends to be rather cold. When entering the Londa area, you will feel a different feel. The combination of mystical nuances and cool weather tends to be cold.

Along the cliffs in the Londa burial complex, there are caves or holes that were deliberately made and carved to put the coffin containing the body. Not just any coffin containing a body can be placed inside the cave in this Londa. Usually, setting the coffin placement is adjusted to the family line.

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Tana Toraja has tourist attraction known as Londa, which is a tomb complex located on a rocky cliff. via @reyhanprmhs

Uniquely, in every cave or hole in a rock cliff a row of wooden statues called Tau-Tau is placed. This row of wooden statues is not an ordinary statue but a sculpture carved and carved in such a way as to resemble a deceased person placed in the cave.

The process of carving and carving is not arbitrary. Every detail of the face of a deceased person is also taken into account such as wrinkle or sagging lines on the face. Not only that, the wood chosen to be used as a statue is yellow jackfruit wood and is close to human skin color. This row of sculptures seems to be a “guard” of the grave cave as well as a representation of the corpse’s identity which is generally located on a tombstone.

Londa is located 6 km from the city center of Rantepao, the capital of Toraja Utara district, in the direction of Makale, the capital of Tana Toraja district. It takes less than 15 minutes by car to reach Londa from Rantepao. via @arnoldio

Around the Tau-Tau rows there are also coffins or commonly called erong whose position is supported by wood. Supported by wood, coffins located on steep cliffs will be safe and not fall. These coffins are referred to as hanging tombs.

For the people of Tana Toraja, coffins or erongs buried by hanging are special crates for the nobility and the honorable who died. The high location of placing the coffin on the cliff is adjusted to the level of position or degree of the nobility. The higher the degree or position of the deceased nobility, the higher the location of the chest is placed on a rock cliff.

Londa is an amazing stonde grave in Toraja! via @tiaragardini

In accordance with the trust of the Tana Toraja people, the higher the location of the tomb or grave, the faster it will be from the body to heaven or nirvana. Interested in seeing Londa’s tomb complex directly in Toraja?