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Spent 2 days in Rantepao and went on a two day tour around Tanah Toraja. Basically it consisted of visiting the local village and it is famous for its funerals.
The funerals are held for 4 days however the dead is kept in a coffin inside the house until they have enough money for the funeral and have all the family attending. So this could be a few weeks or up to three years or even longer as they need to spend good amount on funerals otherwise they believe the will be haunted by the dead spirit if not.
The first funeral we saw was three days in and it was famous for sacrificing buffalos, so I got to see eight buffalos being killed, wasn't pleasant as they just hacked at their throats and didn't die for ages, so horrible.
The second funeral I saw was the first day and only saw one buffalo being sacrificed. Basically is where guests are welcome to the funeral and the coffin was brought out, this lady had dies 8 months ago. But getting to this funeral was great fun..not, had to walk through muddy rice fields and my trainers and jeans were full of mud such a great look.
Rest of the two day tour consisted of seeing mountains, rice fields and old style houses in this area, was very fascinating seeing old traditions of Christianity.
Wanted to head more north to the Trojan islands however no time had as I had to get back to Bali.
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