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We spent a week in Toraja, visiting several funerals, and learning about how these people "live for the day they die." Not at all morbid, but definitely one of the stranger things we have seen (from Western sensibilities) in our travels !

Indonesia, June 13 2022 - Man washes a water buffalo at a market.

Indonesia, June 13 2022 - Pig is tied to the back of a motorcycle to be transported.

Indonesia, June 13 2022 - Pig is tied to a pole and carried by two men.

Indonesia, June 13 2022 - Women plant rice in a field covered with water.

Gegendek is a music created from the sound of halu beaten against lisung.

Indonesia, June 13 2022 - The Tau Tau representing the dead person is carried in a procession to the funeral festival.

Indonesia, June 13 2022 - Family members of the deceased march in procession at the funeral in Toraja.

Indonesia, June 13 2022 - Casket is carried up stairs to preside over funeral festival.

Indonesia, June 13 2022 - The throat of a water buffalo is cut for a quick kill during a funeral sacrafice.

Java, Indonesia, June 13, 2022 - Water buffalos are sacraficed at Toraja funerals. This bull was recently killed..

Indonesia, June 13 2022 - Wooden Tau Tau effifies guard tombs in Toraja.

Java, Indonesia, June 13, 2022 - Tau Tau are wooden effigies carved in Toraja to represent people who have died.

Java, Indonesia, June 13, 2022 - Man carves Tau Tau which are wooden effigies carved in Toraja to represent people who have died.

Java, Indonesia, June 13, 2022 - Water buffalos are sacraficed at Toraja funerals. These bulls were recently killed..

Indonesia, June 13 2022 - Pigs are cooked using powerful propane torch.

Indonesia, June 13 2022 - Pigs are expertly butchered with the meat distributed to the village.

Indonesia, June 13 2022 - Skulls in Londa Burial Caves guard the caskets of those dead for hundreds of years.

Indonesia, June 13 2022 - Boy laughs when dancing in a ceremony.

Java, Indonesia, June 13, 2022 - Toraja homes all follow the same rigid design both in shape and size - looking like a boat.

Java, Indonesia, June 13, 2022 - Toraja homes all follow the same rigid design both in shape and size - looking like a boat.

Indonesia, June 13 2022 - Rice worker harvests ripe rice for the village.

Indonesia, June 13 2022 - Man stands by the coffin of his brother, stored in his bedroom in Toraja.

Java, Indonesia, June 13, 2022 - Terraced roce fields as seen from a road above.

Indonesia, June 13 2022 - Rice worker harvests ripe rice for the village.

Java, Indonesia, June 13, 2022 - Rice is bundled before being dried and then put in a rice barn for storage.

Indonesia, June 13 2022 - Man pulls chickens out of machine that removed all feathers.

Indonesia, June 13 2022 - Man uses propane torch to cook a batch of chickens.