Monday, May 2, 2011

Top 6 Strange Grave in Indonesia

Benuaq Tomb - East Kalimantan

Visiting the village or tribe Dayak Dayak Bentian Benuaq in the interior of East Kalimantan. Tombs will easily be found in the side yard or a side road to the village people Benuaq. Tombs of Benuaq or Bentian not like a tribe in taah first lain.ketika die they will be buried in a box in the buffering by the pole or hanging on the rope. then after some years the grave was opened again and the bones of the dead in prayer and then inserted into a permanent poster box. usually each family has the grave of each and most of its location beside the family home, not a general dipekuburan like most in the city or other villages. Almost every night the music sounded the caller spirits of people who are holding the ceremony Beliatn dance and healing spells for the child or to pray for the dead. 
Stone Lemo - Tana Toraja


Place of burial or remains persemayaman shaped holes in the wall rocks. This place is the result of human creations exceptional Toraja. How not, persemayaman which has existed since the 16th century were made by carving. At that time, certainly with very simple equipment. Lemo is located in the village (valley) Lemo. About 12 kilometers south of Rantepao or six miles north of Makale. Named Lemo because some models burrow circular stone and mottled orange or lemon-like fruit. Stone graves were also called liang paa '.
There are 75 holes in the wall rocks. Some of them have statues lined the so-called tau-tau. The statues are a symbol of social position, status, and their role during the life of the local nobility.
These objects are crowded with visitors since 1960. Besides watching the stone tomb, tourists can also buy various souvenirs or walking path around the object witnessed the fruit of a ripe fruit pangi brown. The fruits were ready to be cultivated and eaten as food typical Toraja tribe called pantollo pamarrasan. 


Baby Grave Kambira - Tana Toraja
In Kambira still in the area of ​​Tana Toraja is a baby grave, a large tree with a hole, the body of the baby after the embalmed and packaged, then inserted into them and the hole covered with woven palm fiber


Steep Rock Londa - Tana Toraja
Grave side of the rock cliff is one side of the cemetery is locatedat the height of the hill has a deep cave where the bodies cratesin the set and are regrouped based on the family line. On the other side of the dozens of tau-tau in hidmat standing on the balcony.

Trunyan - Bali
As the Balinese generally, Trunyan Villagers also know Ngaben, but in this village was not burned his body. Here the bodies were put away in a forest area. Strangely, the body was not going to issue a foul odor, despite being there for months. Why are the bodies that lay just on sema did not cause the smell? And naturally, still occurs decomposition of the corpses?This is the main attraction of tourists to visit these tourist sites.Well, perhaps why, in the forest area there is a tree named Taru Menyan known that could remove the smell fragrant and is able to neutralize the smell of rotting corpses. Taru means the tree, while incense is fragrant. Taru incense tree, only grows in this area. Be Tarumenyan who later better known as Trunyan believed to be the origin of the name of the village. 

Tomb Kings Imogiri - Yogyakarta

Built approximately in 1632 by Sultan Agung, the largest Islamic Mataram kings, tomb building more buildings patterned Hindu.The gate of the tomb made of red bricks without cement Bentar shaped temple. Entering the tomb of the kings of Mataram obviously not the same as entering the public cemetery. to enter the tomb of Sultan Agung, then had to wear traditional clothes in addition to Java, we must remove footwear, also must pass through three gates.
Even that can be directly pilgrimage to the graves of the kings is limited to close relatives of the king or other people who get special permission from the Sultan of Yogyakarta and Surakarta Palace.
Therefore, ordinary pilgrims who are not ready to wear traditional Javanese clothes, forced to only see the first gate is made of carved teak wood and Javanese letters written hundreds of years old, with old-fashioned door latch and padlock.
Only the cemetery caretaker who can open the gate. If after all the ordinary people could see "the content" behind the first gate, it was when the royal family came, the gate was opened wide, and people can look a bit before the gate was closed. The same curiosity that led to the mystery of the tomb of the king of Mataram maintained. 



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