Amazed by the Toraja Culture | South Sulawesi | Indonesia
welcome to South Sulawesi, Rante Pao, that's the area and the town is uh it's probably none of this tells you anything so you saw the last Vlog we took a boat from Surabaya to makassar South Sulawesi so we are in Indonesia if that wasn't clear already we and we're heading to a livestock market gets where they sell buffalo or famous and that's what we came for and but today we're gonna see what you can buy on the market what kind of buffalos they are what kind of piggies and then when we do join the funeral the funeral will be on a separate Vlog so I'll show you how they use those yeah exactly so make sure you watch the funeral one to see what goes on there because it's a little bit interesting a little bit bizarre and some people might not be able to watch it oh yes so this one was showing you around the town showing you the traditional houses and we're going to stay in one of the traditional houses as well hello hello hello well we should try something weird to eat some weird fruit eaten okay what color you go through oh God this is this is very low I'm not the tallest dog oh that's the smell of them I think we found it first time we've never been to one have a look what can we buy we might buy a few buffaloes oh so many it's a little bit sad that we're looking at them as like cats they're for meat so many more baby ones oh they're trying to come oh you're so cute this is an angry one definitely ones are more expensive than white ones yeah but don't call I'm not 100 sure but that's what I had and it like these are like the main things around here these animals there's like statues of them there's like little figurines of them on all the houses the traditional houses so they're a big deal here water buffalo yeah well yeah it's good it's good yeah I feel like realize how so many Buffalo it's insane this is big business here but they are only sold here once a week yes so this is a bit of a eating section here look at these unique ones oh yeah oh look how yeah like okay wow okay there's supposed to be a pig section right next to this one but we cannot find it anywhere and not a lot of English speakers they say hello but we asked them do you speak English oh yeah so which is fine it's true we expect that yeah we should be learning Indonesia hello hello so that was the Buffalo one we're gonna head to the normal one they're gonna get a little bit old fruit or some veg can yeah oh wow that's not what I was expecting that's not what I was expecting either do you eat it like that gorgeous gorgeous yeah sweet very slimy very slimy you like it's good yeah really good yeah very good yeah we would eat this I think we had this interior and the tea in uh in Bali and we really like the tea but the fruit is really good yeah we will definitely eat that again yeah maybe my favorite fruit oh really yeah that's strawberries I think you huh I think this is better than strawberries yeah but it's sort of like reminds me of strawberries a little bit yeah anyway we're gonna eat it enjoy it and keep walking absolutely delicious fruit yeah hello so on the way out we uh we got told that black buffalos big small whatever they cost between uh 25 million rupiah up to 50 million rupiah which is about 1 300 pounds to 2 600 pounds crazy expensive and if you get a black and white one that's even more money because they're special ones I guess so they are very expensive and a lot of the time use for funerals and we found out on the way out we actually met a guy who wanted to practice his English he actually said there's no pigs at the market because there is a something yeah maybe like a pig flu or something yeah so that's why there's no pigs there yeah they're all sick that was interesting so we might not see any pigs so we had a ride through town it's fine and we have arrived to queso and here it is straight away we could tell you it looks good looks bad um so you've got all the traditional style houses the roofs like interesting shapes but we're going to walk in the village and tell you more about it they've taken them for Ceremony or okay for next week for funeral next week 29. let's give you a bit of a closer look from the entrance see a buffalo up there so get the kete Kesu I probably pronounce this wrong like always it's a traditional Village and it's known for their unique and traditional houses it's known for culture Heritage and unique architecture like you can see that it's quite cool and a sleepy doggy oh you will wake you up a lot of shops and already people are very friendly when we were entering they already said when is the next funeral here yeah so next Saturday we don't know if we'll be here said that one or not yeah we'll see look how amazing this is so the houses are actually made from bamboo and Hardwood so one of the most fascinating things about this town are the traditional houses known as tonkanan and the coolest part is they're built on stilts and they've got the amazing boat shaped roofs as you can see yeah hmm as you can see they are detailed with like intricate carvings and detailed paintings if you look at this but we assume this is a storage that's not actually a house yeah yeah yeah the houses are on the big ones let's see what they're carving all underneath wow it's like little ones are usually used for storage the big ones are used for living and they've got a similar thing to we went to villages in Flores and some other ones you see the horns the water buffalo horns on the front signals of families Prosperity beautiful the more they have the more prosperous the family and they'll have their head like the plastic head on the front as well oh yes I didn't see that and that's what we saw we saw them selling the shop yes oh wow yes how did I miss that so what we just noticed there is a sign called kuburan which means grave in Indonesia we just Google it yeah we don't know so we're gonna walk down there and have a look oh another cool thing about these houses is we're going to be sleeping in one yeah yeah so our home stay is actually one of these not here in a village close by so we're going to show you inside and how we'll be staying in one of those look how many of the Jaws jawbones we're going back yeah yeah look how many as well this area there's a lot of coffee so this is very touristy but since I love walking around the village this reminds me of um do you know what I'm thinking supper yeah thinking of supper yes yeah of course the cat Village in supper oh photo for 10. oh okay with it yeah we paid 10 for this pleasure okay so it's 50 pence and it suits you you look perfect really yeah so that was um what was it like what what dance costume it's quite interesting it's interesting how did you feel wearing it then fine the Hat was a bit small put my head a little bit extremely big head a very big headed I don't know I felt like a warrior you did not ready to attack Kasha oh any second ice creams and I think we're gonna come home with lots of little souvenirs you can get a little Grandma yeah I know and I saw a little grandma 15. the little grandma was standing there for sure 15 for that well how much you're gonna be grandma is oh it's a double Grandma an award for creepiest part of this Village is the graveyard they got the traditional buildings like this I assume that's where the bodies are that one this one up here with the pictures on but this one look at this like models of the people yeah I don't know if I'm allowed to sit on here but it's raining like the sun leaves start running so we're going and this is like the old oh look at this wow yeah the skull [Music] we weren't actually expecting this when we came here here that's how they bury their loved ones skull at the edge of it up there this is so cool honestly and these like models are so fascinating so this graveyard is such a unique and fascinating place the graves are carved into the side of a cliff well attached to the side of a cliff and like you see when they break you oh my God because it's cold popping out there when they break in they have to redo them and perform ceremony while doing it so I assume they're the new ones they're new they're brand new yeah you can see the oldest yeah you can see like the detailed carvings and all of them it's just a very interesting tradition what do you do yeah it's incredible when the person dies before this goes in there oh my God before they bet oh you did the money look at this so there's a few people a few people in one coffin and if this isn't strange enough then have a look at this I would not want to come here when it's dark before when the person dies before the funeral they keep the corpse inside their house till they can have enough money to perform the funeral so the corpse is just sitting inside the house just sitting there I presume like this yeah very cool very creepy at the same time so the craving of the Buffalo the buffalo quite pretty so that's where all your people or the taraja people have elaborate funeral ceremonies so he said they celebrate life in their funerals which is quite nice in a way yeah yeah rather than their death being like a somber occasion death is uh and the funeral is marked as a celebration of the deceased's life and a celebration of life in general they celebrate with elaborate funerals as we said and massive feasts at the funeral because they believe the spirits of the Dead continue to play an important part of their living lives because he's on the probably the really old ones right at the top in that hole up here and way up there some sort of building Stock Shop there I don't know if we can get up there on I don't think so no yeah it must be the coolest graveyard we've been to look at this okay staring at us I just don't understand where's all the bodies in this one I don't get it some guy who lives in this Village said there's a cave up here to be very careful because it's a bit dangerous I'm not sure what's in the cave wow this is fascinating because this is kind of a woman oh I might need to leave her thing should we okay we're gonna leave a little thing in here in case they come back to haunt us thank you people giving them cigarettes is like an offering yeah cigarettes cash you coming in cash okay it gets dark interesting okay it's slippery I swear people came in here did they not where are they so a group of people went past us and I have no idea where they went a grave that's from a grave do you want me to go do you want to wait here I don't want to go out and I'll go in then do you want to come back with you are you okay you okay going back up okay if I don't come back in 10 minutes okay this is definitely uh from the film The Descent oh wow something about being in a pitch black cave with bones it's a little bit creepy don't know what it is it's just weird though I ain't going in there so I came out the cave I walked for a little bit uh some people went past me and I couldn't see where they came from they came from Whole obviously yeah another hole in the cave and I went through and I was like okay it gets narrow there's some little points where did they come from and what time I was looking around there's a few different ways to go and I just lost all like orientation of where I was or where I had to go so it was a bit freaky and the fact that um as you saw on the video there were bones and skulls on the floor in a dark cave by yourself it does freak you out even though you know you're fine it's freaky and Katra went back quite quickly but to me it was yeah claustrophobia yeah yeah yeah anyway let's head back down from the graveyard yeah so go we really want to buy one of these but we have our backpack yeah so cool wow we always see so much that we'd buy I know it's weird for us to buy that but we just got no way of taking it home bought a little grandma because it reminds us of this little Grandma over here granny [Music] poor Granny [Music] we're both Lucky doggy actually this is Flores but no we've been here quite a long time now yeah it's actually very interesting place yeah and there's kitties little ginger Kitty [Music] so we're gonna head back to the Homestay now and next time we see you we'll be showing you around our traditional house that we're staying in so check it out let's go uh we're back at our home stay we've just arrived back and this is our home state it's like no you can stay or look at the same time so these traditional ones they just store rice this is one big family here they just store rice in these ones here and our actual Homestay is this one this is where we're staying oh yeah oh come in we go Holloway here this is our seating area up we go this is our first look yeah oh dark dark oh wow okay and this is the Homestay okay oh yeah pretty cool so we've got extra what's this extra pillows extra rug blanket someone else can super if you want and we've got this what should we pull across at night I guess make it look like a separate room little windows hello world I like the little flowers oh the mattress actually really nice yeah my back hurts so this is where we're staying in one of the traditional houses could you show you what we have for a bathroom so again cash is sitting there we're gonna chill here for a bit and then we come around here uh that's like extra rooms if it needed family lived there family live here hey doggy hello who's a good doggy and this is the bathroom and it is just for us we are the only ones using it nice enough bathroom hot water nice toilet cute doggy what more could you want um oh you feel so lovely you're such a good doggy on you you were such a good dog yes yes [Laughter] thank you so we're gonna end the Vlog here had a great time so thank you for watching and see you next one also in round pal bye foreign [Music]
2023-12-18 16:28
