... trade and conflict, but it is the land-locked cultures of the island that are most mysterious. Tana Toraja is spellbinding, home to a proud people hemmed in by magnificent mountains on all sides. The scenery of volcanoes and rice fields is stunning. However, the Toraja’s elaborate death rituals are something else. Cave graves, tau tau (carved wooden effigies of the ...

... , and prominent sweet & woody notes. The coffee that is used in our candy originates solely from the Toraja province in the northern Indonesian islands, on of the finest growing regions in that area. rooted ... , the coffee is carefully harvested, graded, and hand sorted by local villagers. Toraja coffee is considered by connoisseurs to be among the finest and rarest in the world. Sale Price: $15 ...

... after a landslide hit Battang Barat village, Palopo, South Sulawesi on Sunday night. The landslide has buried around 20 houses and cut off an access road connecting Palopo and Tana Toraja, where 51 landslide points can be found. Palopo Mayor Pateddungi Andi Tenri Ajeng said that a joint team comprised of policemen, Palopo residents and army officers was still looking for the victims. ...

... with it in wildly different ways--from the burning corpses that fill the Ganges in India, to the macabre exhibitions of "plastinated" bodies created by German anatomist Gunther von Hagens. In Toraja, Indonesia, dead relatives stay in the house for years, and are worshiped as shrines, and offered food and drink. And in Mexico, witness the ancient Toltec ritual of being buried alive for a ...

... think about the bad times, I have hated Indonesia with a passion, for its annoyingly friendly people, its terrible buses, its unceasing heat, its cultural destruction and its repetitive food. But the high times have been great: Gunung Rinjani, the Bada Valley, the Togian Islands, Tana Toraja, Java's temples... the list goes on. And will I go back one day? Probably. Read whole article...

... , Polynesia and Micronesia languages are also from the North Sulawesi languages. The South Sulawesi languages namely Proto-Bugis or Primary Bugis (the Bugis who call themselves Bugis), Mandar, Toraja and Makasar, are closely linked to the Taman and Memaloh Bidayuh languages of Sarawak. There are three types of languages in the Philippines namely the North Philippines (Tausug), South Philippines ...