Palawa Tongkonan Village

Palawa Tongkonan Village is a traditional Toraja settlement in Sesean District, North Toraja Regency, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. Recognized as one of the oldest Tongkonan villages in Toraja, it features a row of 11 Tongkonan ancestral houses and 15 Alang rice barns facing each other. Known for its well-preserved wood carvings, buffalo horn displays, and hillside setting, it offers insight into Toraja architecture, social structure, and ancestral traditions.

Visitors can expect a compact hillside village with a linear arrangement of Tongkonan ancestral houses with distinctive boat-shaped roofs facing a row of Alang rice barns. The houses display intricate Toraja wood carvings (pa'sura), geometric patterns, and rows of buffalo horns on the facades indicating family status. The surrounding area includes rice fields, bamboo groves and mountain views. Visitors can walk between the houses and barns, observe traditional architecture up close, take photographs, and interact with residents who maintain the houses as family homes.