Journey to the Sacred Stone Grave in Toraja

by Muhammad Syahrul Rozi (Indonesia)

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In 5th December 2019, i and 3 friends of mine decided to visit Toraja stone grave in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, so much way of travel to get there, but we decided to travel by using A Pelni cruise which took us 16 hours of journey above the water and Continued by 9 hours of land trip by bus, we was feeling so blessfull that we could arrived, the stone graves was about 10km ( 6,21 miles ) away from the city. It was amazingly amazing that we could barely eyes saw the skulls and bones of those people who burried there from 10-100 years ago, in Toraja‘s culture, they dont bury human corpse beneath the soil but they put into the grave or in graves stone forever. They believe that those spirit Who already passed away will directly ascended up to the heaven. Almost of them are catholic but they also believe in dualisme which put so much culturization things on life