Rewind: Sarawak Cultural Village

I reached KL last night after a week in Kuching. I went to Sarawak Cultural Village last Wednesday. It was raining lightly that morning but tourist normally don't have a choice. You should just go and do whatever you wanna do because time is not on your side. I was actually in the middle of training sessions. There's a break in the middle of the week so I decided to make full use of the time for sightseeing :)



Bowling Sarawak style anyone?
There's a shuttle service from the hotel for only RM60 which includes the entrance fee and transportation to and fro the cultural village. I was alone and there's another adult family of four together in the van. It was a quiet ride with the light rain for half of the journey. Thankfully the rain stopped not long after that and the sun shone brightly so I can enjoy my time there.

I found out I like Sarawak's native music. I wonder where I can find CDs of the music they played at the cultural village. I have another trip to Kuching in January. Maybe I'll make it my mission to find the CDs then. At the Iban longhouse, a young Chinese lady asked if I can take a photo of her. We chatted after that and since she's alone, we decided to walk together so we can take each other's photo :) She's from JB. I like the fact that she didn't ask too much question and she's as busy taking photos as I was.


This is one of my favorite photo. Looks like one of the Japanese architecture.
This is the interesting looking Bidayuh house.

The huge Melanau house. According to the lady at the Melanau house, the real house is 40 feet tall and 3 to 4 times bigger than this show house. Can you imagine it? The whole village would be staying there.
Outside the Iban house, the Malay lady who's together in the shuttle van asked where I'm from, what I was doing in Kuching and whether I was alone. Duh! Give me a break. I'm not friendly that way. Luckily we didn't cross path after that. I like Bidayuh and Melanau house from all the houses there. Bidayuh house has a unique shape and Melanau house is so big. We stopped touring half way and make our way to the theatre at 11.00 a.m. The theatre was so packed but I managed to get a seat. There's a bunch of government servants there. Must be during one of their finishing the year's budget trip. Most of the uncles didn't decline the invitation to join the dancers on the stage after the show with shouts of encouragement and laughter from their colleagues.





I ran out of battery and memory card space at the theatre. Luckily I brought my 64 MB MMC from my old camera and the 16 MB SD card that came together with the camera when I bought it. So I really have to budget the photos taken after that. It started raining lightly again at 1.00 p.m. One of the shuttle van has already waited outside the village so it was a very nice timing. When we almost reached Kuching, it was raining very heavily. That afternoon was spent sorting out the photos and taking a nap while it was raining outside.






I don't know why I like this photo. Just like you don't know why you like someone but you do :)
Some people might love the experience there and some might find it boring. Depends on whether you prefer Cameron Highlands or Genting Highlands. Come to think of it, now I love both :)