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Combined Gawai-Kaamatan Ceremony

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An annual marking of the multi races festival for east malaysian in Lutong. Plenty of foods, drink, activities. Hot-cold-available. Nah pandai juga....Puan ni. Tak nak kalah juga yah, Puan M ni pun sama hebatnya. Mula mula memang malu juga. No idea where this bird came from. From Mahakam? Balui? Baram?Apo Kayan? Got stucked here. A young talented sampeh player. Who says no young boys know how to playthis ever green string music. Psssst...melo te awa uma aru!. Habis ni lah ngajat. R atu ratu Kayan ke? Kenyah ke? Lun-Daya ke? memangnya hebat. Nah snap shot!.....

Electrofishing

Electrofishing is a method of fishing using electric sources . e.g Portable power generators, batteries or anything that produces electrical charges. If the user is not aware of the consequences, he may be electrocuted instead of the fish. The good thing about this technique is that you can be selective to do your fishing and if you are not greedy, you just spent few minutes for your catch of the day. NEVER get extra catch for tomorrow or next few days ration. That kills. Just get enough for your meals and not for sale. Its not as easy as it looks..............The rest are fishing and technical secret.

Moringa - The Miracle Tree/Kayok Beletek

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Moringa? Sound strange to you? No?. In Kayan language, its kayok Beletek!. It should no because it have been around and popular in other countries like India, Indonesia, Philipines, Africa, Australia, US and so on....Lots of research have been conducted by various scientists in these countries. There are taboos by locals of course by traditional people which is not proven. Its purely scientific and nutritious tree. See this Slide Show for detail..

Orang Ulu or LunDaya

इस्सुएस रेगार्डिंग ओरंग उलू एंड लुन्दय हवे बीन इन तह तुग ऑफ़ वर लातेली ठाट अप्पार्स इन लोकल मीडिया ।. The orang Ulu in Sarawak are in a tug of war at the moment ever since the mislead rebranding of the words orang ulu was raised up since May 2009. Orang Ulu people like to get popular by putting their faces in the news paper but it just ends there. I called this issues of Rebranding the word ORANG ULU as a test of paradigm for the orang ulu mindset. Orang Ulu also do have Aristocrate like other tribes. But the Aristrocrate are mostly Dummies and arrogant. Click on the following Slide Show for Detail.

The Tenyok Community Resort

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TENYOK RESORT  - long Bedian. Tenyok valley is locally declared as a community resort. Its called Tenyok Community Resort. It has 7 waterfall ranging 20 to 100 ft high. Its water is crystal clear and cold as a stone. There are 7 chalets and a longhouse model of 10 doors. DIY concept(cooking washing bathing) with the nature. Its only 20 minutes ride from the Long Bedian longhouse by 4x4 vehicles. Its a daily popular picnic and relax places from the locals and neighbouring communities from Long bemang, Long Atip, Long Watt, Long Lama and some came as far as from brunei and Bintulu. Here is the last frontier with nature. Click on the following Slide SHow The ever popular and nearest waterfall for swimming, diving etc. The river bed at one of the nearest waterfall. The "roof" above of one of the nearest waterfall. About 150 meters upriver from the nearest waterfall is the "Dancing Fall" shown above. Named during the last video clips pe...

Long Bedian

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Long Bedian. Long Bedian is a remote Kayan longhouse located in upper Apoh river. The longhouse have 210 doors with population estimated at 2,000 peoples. As a norm phenomena of urbanisation, only couples of people manned the longhouse throughout the year. During the last gawai festival ( we dont celebrate gawai), the urban Long Bedian residents that went back to clean up their rooms dust were 1,200 people. that look as if its was just half because most were not seen anywhere. The only access to the longhouse is by timber roads. Larger transport system for the neighbours to nearby village such as Long Liam, Long Tebangan, timber camps. Local tourists having their nice time at Ria cafe in long Bedian. there are couple of small cafe like coffee shop at Long Bedian where you can eat and relax. The Penan neighbours do come to the longhouse selling their handycrafts. You bet!, quality is their selling points. they do also sell wild pigs to the locals. The church can ac...