Cliffside Burial

Lembo Village, Tana Toraja

The cliffside burials at Lembo are universally considered to be the most elegant and worth visiting, even though these - like all other known tau-taus - are modern, their 19th-century predecessors having been robbed-out earlier. There are no existing tau-taus that date before the 19th century; if there were any, it is likely that the climate of Sulawesi would have destroyed them long ago.

Cliffside burials can be found worldwide, from Indonesia to Tibet, Peru, and Mesa Verde.