Annah Rais Longhouse
This weekend I did a little road trip with my friend Colleen. We went to Annah Rais Longhouse and the nearby hot spring.
The longhouse belongs to the Bidayuh tribe, which is one of the native tribes on Borneo. Some of the tribes still live in longhouses, which are built up of a number of houses, attached to each other. One for each family.
Historically the Bidayuhs were headhunters and they killed their enemies and kept their skulls in a baruk (head house), which is a common house with a big fireplace in the middle. Above the fireplace the enemies' skulls are hanging.
One family had a Carlsberg poster on the wall!
Inside the Baruk, the house were the Bidayuhs keep their enemies' skulls.
Walking over the bamboo bridge.
After exploring the longhouse we went to the nearby hot spring for a foot bath. The climate here on Borneo is not suitable for a bath in a hot spring, you are overheated anyway, so dipping the feet was enough. Close to the hot spring a lot of excotic fruits; like pineapples, cocoa and rambutan were growing. I think most of the trees were planted, but it's always interesting to see where the fruits come from.
Pineapple
Cocoa fruit
Rambutans
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