I went to this yearly event, the lantern festive at Carpenter Street last week. With just a blink of an eye, this year marks the 9th mooncake festival. I’ve been visiting this place almost every year, and it brings a lot of joy and memory. The foods are delicious, and the number of stalls has been greater.
I saw my friend Kenwy Ho performing at the event, and he also played one of my favorite song The Night Fairy. He is a music professional, who owns three music schools at Kuching. And his main passion is playing the “yang qing” a Chinese musical instrument. I don’t eat much meat and fried food now adays, so in this trip I bought a few snacks and a cup of drink. But I do enjoy the atmosphere; I took a lot of photos that night together with my friends. And composed it into a short clip, hope you guys like it.
A brother and sister. I took this shoot at a village near to the Borneo Highland, their mum is a dialysis patients, and have a small canteen just beside their home.
Their were in the wooden canteen that time when I visited them. And I also visited their house, I notice something interesting is that there are puppies behind the house. And this is one of them...
An old lady was burning the soil to fertilizes it for the upcoming planting session.
The rest of the village also do the same, they do not have any fertilizer here, so this is the traditional way for them to do it, passdown from generation.
Is pretty amazing to see this phenomena, but Sarawak is truly a hidden treasure. I have heard of the Annah Rais hot spring before, and this is the first time I visit the place. As I know geographically hot spring exist is because of ………and……….so that the water will …………..! ok, I forgot my geography, and I didn’t get good marks in Science . But in a small land like Kuching, Sarawak we have hot spring here. More info on Hot Spring here
The Annah Rais Longhouse, and hot spring is situated here, near to the Borneo Highland Kuching. And is one of Sarawak tourist destination, they have home stay, local food, jungle tracking.
Is a medium stream, with calm water rapidly flowing downstream. When I just reach there, I began to look for this hot spot. Couldn’t find it, then there is this area with rocks circulating them. This might be it, immediately I jump into the water.
It was very shallow, and cold. I walk towards the rocks, and just when I reach, I saw bubbles coming out from the water! As this is the first time I encounter this, so I was kind of like a fool, shout to my friends to come over and see this.
I was a bit nerves, slowly put my feet into that area. I can felt the warm water, and then I try to step on the ground. The rocks feels warm when first step on it :)
Slowly I put both of my feel in the same spot, after a few second….hm~~ what is that feeling “ouch!!!!” the rocks is HOT. I nearly get my feet burn, Is very fun to soak yourself here, is a different feeling.
My dear reader, you definitely need to come and experience yourself. That excitement when you feel the hot water under your feet. Cause there are some muddy water, so you can’t see clearly where you are stepping. So every step is an unknown step, but that is where the fun is.
Is a very nice place, very shady, constant wind blows. If you want to stay here, they also have a home stay just at the entrance of the hot spring. For this trip, we didn’t stay long, cause we are quite late when we reach the place. So yep, we plan for a 2nd trip back here. Until then, see ya :)
p/s: better don't go to the hotspring on a hot sunny day :)
Visited the Dunuk Village 30 min drive from Borneo Highland (map here).
I saw kids gather around at one corner, they are looking at the fish that they caught. I ask them to show me where they get it, and they bring me to their daily playground. The river behind the village.
At first I tough they going to use a pole, or fish net to catch it. All of a sudden, they start to jump into that river o_O" wow~ kids stay in the city will never do this.
Quite happy to see them having fun in that river, catching fish, splashing water at each other, discussing plan to catch fish. I had a wonderful afternoon, can you picture the scene from my photo?
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