Tana Toraja as the World Class Best Travel Destination

Tana Toraja is a famous tourist destination. Travel guide books always attach this area as the best travel destination. Not surprisingly, foreign tourists want to see this area directly. For example, traditional house tongkonan consisting of a split bamboo roof and arranged overlapping. Tongkonan also have the appropriate degree of nobility strata of society such as gold, bronze, iron, and brass.

There are many other attraction of Tana Toraja, such as ceremonial beacon rambu solo (funeral) and rambu tuka (shower) which is a fixed calendar every year. While there is a tradition in North Toraja sisamba or harvest festival which is annually held at the village Kende api, Tikala Rantepao.

In addition to the charming natural scenery, tourists are also made ??in awe as they watched from near the morgue at the shelter 600-year-old corpse in Londa, Rantepao.

Furthermore, regarding the decline of Tana Toraja, recognized by Frederik B Rombelayuk. Public figure who is currently the Vice Regent of the North Toraja explains, Tana Toraja experienced a boom since the visit was announced as a tourist destination in 1974. Two decades later, tourists still continue to flow until the mid-1990s. In the era 1998 - 2008, visits of foreign tourists dropped due to the economic crisis.

While the stakeholder representatives of foreign tourists visit Toraja reduced rate because now many places appear attractive tourist destinations, such as Wakatobi (Southeast Sulawesi), Raja Ampat (Papua), and the island of Lombok. "Toraja will rely on an abundance of tourists from Bali. Now many travel agents that offer attractive packages outside of Toraja, such as Lombok, Wakatobi and Raja Ampat. This makes foreign tourists decreased. Tana Toraja, however still has a stunning tourist attraction for always be the world-class best travel destination.