Kampung Bena (Bena Village) an Amazing Megalith Village and Culture

Kampung Bena (Bena village) is a megalith village located in Ngada, Flores, Indonesia. Precisely in the Village Tiwuriwu, Aimere District, about 19 km south Bajawa. Kampung Bena is one of the remaining traditional villages Flores that leaves traces the amazing megalith culture. 

 The village is located only 18 km from the city on the island of Flores Bajawa. Bajawa city located in the basin as a plate lined with rows of mountains. The city is visited by many tourists especially the weather was quite cold, cool, and hilly.

Life in the village of Bena maintained with a stone-age culture that has not changed much since 1,200 years ago. This village has a large stone megaliths and remaining awake at Bajawa authenticity. This village presents many megalithic culture of authenticity from the grave stones, ceremonies, forms of home and the way of life. Another uniqueness to your explorers, this village is very beautiful and quiet due to the lack of technology used.
Bena village is estimated to have existed 1,200 years ago. Until now, the pattern of the life and culture of the people has not changed much. Where people still revere the traditions handed down by their ancestors.

Bena village inhabited by a tribe that has a sustainability Ngada pure customs without any intervention from the development of modern lifestyle though. Including them is the way of life that still adhere to the philosophy of our ancestors as they are for the buffalo sacrifice ceremony of the establishment of a new-banging tribute to the buffalo to stone to death-, tree-felling the offerings by not recklessly cut down development so as offerings away from the anger of the forest dwellers.

It presented a variety of uniqueness to your search Bajawa, tradisional homes that still use wood and standardize the construction of houses the size of ancestry add cultural tourism offerings Bajawa more unique look.
The village is currently comprised of approximately 40 pieces of each other around the house. Agency village grows lengthwise, from north to south. The entrance of the village just north. Meanwhile, the other in the south had a peak at the same time the edge of steep cliffs.
This village became patron of travelers from Germany and Italy.In the middle of the village or the field, there are several buildings that they call Bhaga or ngadhu. The building looks like a little cottage Bhaga (without occupants). While ngadhu form colonnaded buildings and roofed single fiber up looks like cottage roofed shade. Pillar ngadhu special type of wood used and hard because they serve as sacrificial animals gallows when the traditional feast. 

Bena population belongs to the tribe Bajawa. The majority of the population is religious catholic Bena. Generally Bena residents, male and female, earns a meager living as cultivators. For women was added to the weave.
At first there is only one clan is the clan Bena village. Marriage with other tribes gave birth to a new clan now forms the entire population of the village Bena. This could occur because the population adheres Bena matriarchal kinship system.