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Introducing Gawai Dayak: the Harvest Festival in Sarawak

Introducing Gawai Dayak: the Harvest Festival in Sarawak

  Introducing Gawai Dayak: the Harvest Festival in Sarawak   Gawai Dayak is the celebration of the Rice Harvest Festival of the Dayak people of Sarawak, Borneo (Malaysia). Gawai Dayak translates literally to “Dayak Festival”. The Dayaks are the name given to dozens of individual ethnic tribes of the region, which are chiefly divided into …

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Photo of the Week: Brunei Mosque Framed

Brunei can rightly be called the only country I’ve ever traveled to just for the sake of the passport stamp.  Dismayed by the cost of mountain permits in Malaysian Borneo, I opt instead for the oil-rich Sultanate Next Door.  Prepared with my legal-maximum-import 1.5 liters of booze, I show up ready for boredom. I wander …

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Photo of the Week: Orangutans at Sepilok

While traveling in Borneo I visited Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre. Even though I saw an orangutan in the wild, I still wanted a chance to observe these amazing “men of the forest” from a closer distance. You could get a sense from the mesmerized onlookers (the homo sapiens), that all were thinking the same thing—just …

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