The Rainforest World Music Festival

      

The Rainforest World Music Festival is an annual three-day music festival celebrating the diversity of world music, held in Kuching, Sarawak, with daytime music workshops, cultural displays, craft displays, food stalls, and main-stage evening concerts. It is now one of the largest musical events in Malaysia with a total weekend audience approaching 30,000.

The festival features a wide range of performances from traditional music, to world fusion and contemporary world music. The festival emphasizes the use of traditional acoustic world instruments, although electric accompaniment instruments are common. Invited performers come from Sarawak, other provinces of Malaysia, and countries near and far.

Melanau's food

 

Umai

Umai was originally food for melanau fisherman on their fishing trips to the sea. Since It is dangerous to cook anything on their boat because the risk of fire,  they create this recipe.  Umai doesnt to be cook and very easy to prepare. Needs raw fish or prawns. Not all fish are suitable for umai and freshness of fish is the key factor to make delicious umai. We can use empirang or mackerel fish. Also needs salt, chillies, big onions and lime juice (calamansi).

Gawai Dayak

Gawai Dayak is a festival celebrated by Dayaks in Sarawak and West Kalimantan  which is officially public holidays on 31 May and 1 June every year in Sarawak, Malaysia. It is both a religious and social occasion.

The word Gawai means a ritual or festival whereas Dayak is a collective name for the native ethnic groups of Sarawak and neighboring Indonesian Kalimantan who are the Iban also known previously as Sea Dayak.

Gunung Santubong

Gunung Santubong

On a clear day, it can be seen from Kuching. The mountain and its surrounding area is a popular tourist attraction.

The Legend of Mount Santubong

A legend often associated with the mountain is of two beautiful princesses of heaven, Santubong and Sejinjang. Santubong was an expert weaver while Sejinjang was an excellent rice tresher. When war broke out between two villages, Kampung Pasir Putih and Kampung Pasir Kuning, the King of Heaven sent the princesses to keep peace in both villages. The villagers saw both beautiful princesses and stopped the war. After the war, both princesses taught the villagers their expertise and both villages began to trade and became prosperous. Many princes heard of them and came from the whole island to marry them, but all was denied by them. One day, a handsome prince came, and the princesses had a quarrel and exchanged blows because both of them fell in love with the prince. Sejinjang swung her tresher which hit Santubong's cheek. Santubong threw her weaver at Sejinjang, hitting her in the head. Putting an end to the quarrel, the King of Heaven cursed both of them into mountains. Santubong turned into Mount Santubong while Sejinjang was turned into Mount Sejinjang. It is said that both mountains resembles women lying on their back and a crack on Mount Santubong was the scar on Princess Santubong's cheek.

Orang Ulu People

The orang ulu are made up of a few tribes namely the Kenyah, Kayan, Klemantan, Kelabit, the Lun Bawang, Penan as well as a few minor tribes in the interior. Orang Ulu, means the "up-river dwellers" mainly living in Central Borneo, which accounts for 5.5% of the population. The Penan, Kayan and Kenyah, live in the middle and upper reaches of and the Kelabit and Lun Bawang live in the highlands.

Kenyah people WeddingTradition

Just like in Dayak Benuaq Tribe and Kutai Tribe wedding customs, in Dayak Kenyah traditional wedding custom, the parents would start to think of the way to look for a spouse for their son/daughter when he/she is considered mature enough.

Regatta Event

In Sarawak, one of the event occur is regatta. This event would have a brightly coloured traditional tribal boats race through the waters of the Sarawak River along Kuching Waterfront at the annual Sarawak Regatta. A premier event in Kuching, it features 15 different race categories and invites participants from other countries in the region.

Manok Pansoh

One type of Sarawak food  is ' manok pansoh'. This food contains chicken which is the chicken they will put into the bamboo. After we put the chicken inside the bamboo, we need to close the hole with a leaf. The leafs is Banana leaf . The taste was very nice. To cook this 'manok pansoh', we have to make a fire. Then put the bamboo on the fire.