{"id":81,"date":"2008-03-27T01:12:25","date_gmt":"2008-03-27T00:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southeastasia.fr\/blog-de-voyage\/2008\/03\/27\/a-lemo-les-morts-vous-regardent\/"},"modified":"2019-04-14T16:54:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T14:54:54","slug":"a-lemo-les-morts-vous-regardent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/a-lemo-les-morts-vous-regardent-20080327\/","title":{"rendered":"In Lemo, the dead are watching you"},"content":{"rendered":"

I continue my journey to Sulawesi (Indonesia) <\/strong>from July 2007. I take you to Lemo<\/strong>one of the most famous sites of the Toraja country.<\/p>\n

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The dead are watching you<\/h2>\n
In Lemo, there are tombs carved into a cliff, guarded by wooden statues, called tau-tau<\/em><\/strong>, who represent the dead. From the top of their rock balconies, the dead look at you.<\/p>\n
At the foot of the cliff, the effect is striking. The tau-tau<\/em> have large fixed eyes and reach out to you.<\/p>\n
But there was nothing morbid or frightening about this spectacle. On the contrary, I keep the memory of a great impression of peace.<\/p>\n
$\"Each$ <\/a>
Each wooden statue represents a deceased. (Toraja Country, Sulawesi, July 2007)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t $\"One$ <\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tL’une des tombes creus\u00e9es dans la falaise \u00e0 Lemo. (Pays Toraja, Sulawesi. Juillet 2007)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\t\t $\"The$ <\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tThe cliff of tau-tau at Lemo. (Toraja Country, Sulawesi, July 2007)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n
It must be said that the village of Lemo is located in a beautiful small valley with rice fields, very quiet. The place is beautiful and breathes serenity.<\/p>\n
$\"The$ <\/a>
The peaceful village of Lemo, in the middle of the rice fields. (Toraja Country, Sulawesi, July 2007)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
This is the very first site I visited during my stay in Toraja country<\/strong>last July<\/a>. I went there with the family of Dutch people with whom I sympathized and made a good part of the road, from Makassar to the Togian islands.<\/p>\n
Lemo is located about 15 kilometers south of Rantepao<\/strong>, where we stayed.<\/p>\n
It is best to visit Lemo in the morning. The light is more beautiful and the sun illuminates then the cliff, which is in the shade later in the day. Few tourists during our visit.<\/p>\n
Sulawesi: the traditional houses of the Toraja country<\/h2>\n
At the entrance of the site, there are traditional houses tongkonan<\/em>with that graceful curved roof. But tradition does not prevent modernity. One of these Toraja houses was flanked by a big satellite antenna for TV.<\/p>\n
\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t $\"At$ <\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\t\u00c0 l’entr\u00e9e du village de Lemo, les habitants vaquent \u00e0 leurs occupations. (Pays Toraja, Sulawesi. Juillet 2007)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\n\t\t\t\t $\"Several$ <\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
\n\t\t\t\tPlusieurs maisons traditionnelles avec toit tongkonan \u00e9taient pourvues d’une grosse antenne parabolique… (Pays Toraja, Sulawesi. Juillet 2007)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n
For this first day, we had requested the services of a guide and rented a car. He drove us to the spectacular funeral ceremony<\/a> which I have already mentioned.<\/p>\n
But to visit Lemo, as well as the other sites close to Rantepao (traditional villages, tombs and rice fields), the presence of a guide is not really essential. Most of the sites are easily accessible.<\/p>\n
I rode around the following days on my own, on a motorcycle. The ideal means of transportation, in my opinion, to travel the small country roads between the rice fields. These trips are much more uncomfortable by car. You just need to bring a map of the area, which you can find everywhere in the hotels and restaurants of Rantepao.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Continuation of my trip to Sulawesi (Indonesia) in July 2007. Lemo is one of the most famous sites in Toraja country, for its cliff tombs guarded by tau-tau, wooden statues representing the deceased.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13330,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tpgb_global_settings":"","_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[42,44,91,221,26,40],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-voyage-sulawesi-indonesie-2007","tag-sulawesi","tag-tombes","tag-insolite","tag-toraja","tag-indonesie","tag-rizieres"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lemo-tau-tau.jpg?wsr","tpgb_featured_images":{"full":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lemo-tau-tau.jpg?wsr",1600,1067,false],"tp-image-grid":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lemo-tau-tau-700x700.jpg?wsr",700,700,true],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lemo-tau-tau-250x250.jpg?wsr",250,250,true],"medium":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lemo-tau-tau-390x260.jpg?wsr",390,260,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lemo-tau-tau-770x513.jpg?wsr",770,513,true],"large":["https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/lemo-tau-tau-780x520.jpg?wsr",780,520,true],"default":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/plugins\/the-plus-addons-for-block-editor\/assets\/images\/tpgb-placeholder.jpg"},"tpgb_post_meta_info":{"get_date":"27 March 2008","get_modified_date":"14 April 2019","category_list":{"category":[{"term_id":54,"name":"Indon\u00e9sie : Sulawesi - juillet 2007","slug":"voyage-sulawesi-indonesie-2007","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":54,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Voyage d'un mois sur l'\u00eele de Sulawesi (C\u00e9l\u00e8bes) en Indon\u00e9sie. 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