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6 of the strangest graves in Indonesia

Tomb Benuaq - East Kalimantan
Tomb Benuaq - East Kalimantan
Visited his tribe or tribal Dayak Dayak Benuaq Bentian in the interior of East Kalimantan. Graves will be easily found in the side yard or the side of the road towards the village Benuaq. Benuaq graves 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 a rope. then after some years the grave was opened again and the bones of the dead and pray for input into a permanent colonnaded box. usually each family has their graves and most of it is located next to the family home, is not common dipekuburan like most in the city or other villages. Almost every night the music sounded the caller spirits of people who were having a ceremony Beliatn dance and healing spells for the child or for praying for the dead

Stone Lemo - Tana Toraja:
Stone Lemo - Tana Toraja
TFour cemetery or funeral bodies shaped holes in the wall rock. This place is the result of human creations exceptional Toraja. How not, the abode which has existed since the 16th century was made by way of sculpting. At that time, of course with very simple equipment. Lemo is located in the village (valley) Lemo. About 12 kilometers south of Rantepao or six kilometers north Makale.

Named Lemo because some models burrow circular stone and mottled fruit resembling an orange or lime. Stone graves also called liang paa '.

There are 75 holes in the wall rock. Some of them have statues lined the so-called tau-tau. The statues are a symbol of social standing, status, and their role as the lifetime of the local nobility.

This object visited since 1960. Besides watching the stone tomb, tourists can also buy various souvenirs or walking path around the object is witnessing a ripe fruit fruit pangi browned. The fruits were ready to be processed and consumed as food typical Toraja tribe called pantollo pamarrasan.


Kambira baby graves - Tana Toraja:
Kambira baby graves - Tana Toraja
In Kambira still in the Tana Toraja no grave babies, a large tree hollowed out, the bodies of the baby after the embalmed and wrapped, then put into it and the hole covered with woven fibers.

Steep Rock Londa - Tana Toraja:
Steep Rock Londa - Tana Toraja
grave side cliffs are one side of the grave was in the height of the hill has a cave in which the corpse crates are regulated and are grouped based on the family line. On the other side of the dozens of tau-tau hidmat standing on the balcony.

Trunyan - Bali:
Trunyan grave - Bali
As the Balinese generally, Trunyan Villagers also known cremation, but in this village whose bodies were burned. Here the bodies were just put in a forest area. Strangely, the body will not issue a foul odor despite there for months.

Why are the bodies that lay just on sema caused no smell? And naturally, still occurs decomposition of the corpses? This is the main attraction of tourists to visit tourist sites. Well, supposedly why, in the forest there is a tree known named Taru incense that can release fragrance and is able to neutralize the smell of rotting corpses. Taru means the tree was meant fragrant incense. Taru incense tree, only grows in this area. Be Tarumenyan which came to be known as Trunyan believed to be the origin of the village name.

Tomb Kings Imogiri - Yogyakarta:
Tomb Kings Imogiri - Yogyakarta
Built around the year 1632 by Sultan Agung, the greatest king of the Islamic Mataram, building tombs over Hindu-style building. 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, in addition to wear traditional Javanese, we must remove footwear, also had to go through three gates.

Even that can be directly pilgrimage to tomb of the king was limited to the immediate family of any king or other people who got special permission from the Sultan of Yogyakarta and Surakarta.

Therefore, ordinary pilgrims who are not ready to wear traditional Javanese clothes, forced to only be able to see the first gate made ​​of teak wood carved and inscribed centuries-old Javanese script, 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, that was when the kingdom comes, the gates opened wide, and the public could look a bit before the gate was closed. Curiosity is also causing grave mystery Mataram kings maintained.