Exotic culture and community

Giving of gifts by the Chairman ( My dad) of the Society of the traditional music to YB Lee Kim Shin.

                                                                                                          

My wife and i attended kenyah festival closing ceremony

my dad and his team perform at Miri everly Hotel Lobby











                                                                                  

Bakun is located in Sarawak, Malaysia on the Balui River, a tributary or source of the Rajang River and some sixty kilometers west of Belaga, about two hours from Bintulu.
Many of the local ethnic groups live in long houses in two key settlements called Sungai Asap and Belaga. The former has about 10, 000 residents while the latter has close to 6000 households located predominantly along the river. These communities settled there when the Bakun dam first began construction in the early ‘80s. 
Sungai Asap and Belaga's population is dominantly Orang Ulu ethnics. Amongst many natives of Sarawak and Belaga particularly, Kenyah is found to be the most creative and talented in their traditional cultural, craftworks, wood curving, traditional music talented, bead weaving and design, traditional sketch drawing of painting, etc. An example of Kenyah's most popular folk music is sape. The origin of sape music is from the Kenyah ethnic. Kenyah plays sape in various tones, for example Sape Tuvung (The giant sape - above video).  The many tones of the sape music are closely related to the folklores, literatures and traditional hymn of the Kenyah. You can see cultural dance and folk music being practiced as daily activities in the midst of the indigenous people in their traditional way of life, belief, customary practices. Make Bakun as your first choice of destination and give you the first touch of Borneo.