Kuching Rainforest Music Festival, 2011

8-11 July 2011, Kuching, Sarawak.

Poster at airport

Chia's friend pick us up from airport in the middle of the night

Supper

Check in to Furama hotel

Next morning, breakfast

Kolo mee, kolo mee

Chinese temple

Walk around the riverside

Oh wow a chinese museum

Thats where our ancestors came in from china using this boat

Landed in Kuching

Hakka, hokkien, hochew etc...

Chinese business e.g. open a sundry shop

Old photo... some kind of important person

I donno what's that...

Pawn shop

Ok that's the museum

Opposite another temple

Kucing roundabout

Collect tickets etc

Have some ice cream while waiting for the bus

Ticket

Arrive at the place

Have some lunch

Some souvenirs

This is the Cultural Village, the venue for the Rainforest Music Festival

Nice place here with a lake

Now still early, any shows on ?

Air con auditorium

Workshop... showcase string instruments from different cultures

Whoopee

Exploring the place

Got stalls selling food

Another hall where they have workshops

Some performance by the lake

Leweton Women's Water Music, Vanuatu
From the remote northern tropical islands of Vanuatu, comes an extremely unique and rarely seen tradition, called water music. Dressed in traditional costumes of flowers and leaves, a small number of women wade into the water up to their waist, stand in the shape of half moon and begin to play. The water is beaten in rhythmic dance of bodies and waves. The water itself is the instrument producing a wide range of sounds ...

Very hot now, sit in another hall waiting for next performance... lots of mat salleh here..

Another workshop

Enjoying the music

Time to dance!

Can you all make one circle and go round and round...

Time for makan

Sample some sarawak laksa

Tapioca with coconut cream

Ok, book your seats

Waiting for the concert in the evening

Somebody singing..

Ok, next day, our hotel

Looking for food

More kolo mee with pork

Tomato mee

Nice little coffee shop in town

Cosy

Nice shot of Laimeng, Chia and YK enjoying coffee

On the bus, its about 1hour ride to the village

Ok, back to the village... photo with one of the african musicians

African very simple unique musical instruments

Another workshop at the aircon auditorium ... all types of accordians.. some customised..

More people coming second day

This is a big hit.. can really hear them beating the water like a drum..

Photo photo

Time for a drink

Meet up with the penang gals... ooh .. yellow shirt day

Go out for makan

I think we are eating mee hoon or nasi lemak...

There's a beach here.... santubong

Yellow yellow

Photo photo

Waiting for 2nd day evening concert

Blow up a balloon

Long day, hungry, find food in Kuching.... paku vege and sotong

DO NOT EAT HERE..... long wait and blur waiters and horrible pizza..

Next day, photo at the cultural village entrance

Can buy some CDs of your favourite band

Souvenir shop

Fake skulls

Walking around the Cultural Village, this is the chinese house... grinder

Lada hitam pepper plant

Making kuih bahulu

Masters of Sape

Coconut shell orang utans

Another workshop... see if you can spot any cute guys here

The mexican harp guy, Victor Valdez

Another unique instrument

Have some potato chips

Workshop

Ok last day concert

Concert Finale

All the bands on stage

Last day exploring kuching

Museums

Some bird art

More art

Museum artifacs

Seashells

Whale bones

James Brooke

Coffee again.. back to the same shop

Taxi to airport..

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