Tau-tau grave guardians on the cliffs...

One day I visited some of the famous cliff cemeteries of Torajaland with new friends Adam and Kate, from the UK. We had seen enough poor water buffalos and piggies get slaughtered! We were curious to know where the deceased were taken after all the ceremonies ended. In Torajaland the dead are put into stone graves carved out of the numerous karst stone formations, buried in caves, or hung in hanging graves from the cliff walls. For the higher status deceased wooden effigies called ?tau tau? are put up near the grave. Often many generations worth of tau tau sit shoulder to shoulder, looking eerily down on trespassers.

Spooky, like stepping into another world entirely.