Travel Log: Lawas Trip (9th- 13th Feb 2013)

 This is my 1st time visiting small town LAWAS Sarawak, where Lun Bawang  resides..The Friendship brought me here.....

In fact, Lawas is a venue for Annual Festival for Lun Bawang People known as  IRAU ACO LUN BAWANG(click)(Lun Bawang festival/Pesta Lun Bawang) annually on the first of June .( related post: Rurun Ulung is a Legendary Lun Bawang Maiden.)

"This festival is traditionally a celebration of the rice harvest but now it showcase a variety of Lun Bawang culture and events such as Ruran Ulung (beauty pageant contest) and nguip suling (bamboo musical instrument band)"

DEPART FROM KL--> KOTA KINABALU(9th Feb 2013)

WELCOME TO LAWAS 

KG SIANG-SIANG LAWAS 2013

Yellow Eggplant of Borneo @Lawas 

NUBA LAYA@KAMPUNG SIANG-SIANG LAWAS 

KENDURI @LAWAS

LUN BAWANG TRADITIONAL FOOD @LAWAS..

Enjoying Kenduri Time with LUN BAWANG delicacies  @ Lawas Feb 2013

Visiting LEPO RONG SIA HANDICRAFT ,LAWAS SARAWAK

SHOPPING HANDCRAFT@LEPO RONG SIA 

i managed to get one TREE BARK LUN BAWANG JACKET........during this trip...

PAKAIAN TRADISI LUN BAWANG
*Lun Bawang Traditional Costume*

13th February 2013-Last Day in LAWAS

Finally .Home after 12 hrs..Lawas -->KK----> KL. 

LUN BAWANG (Tree Bark Vest) from my LAWAS TRIP (Feb 2013)
MATTA FAIR KL PWTC Launching at Malaysia Airlines Booth ..1
5 March 2013 for Sarawak Tourism Board
press conference more here
:http://www.theborneopost.com/2013/03/17/7-2-per-cent-increase-in-visitors-arrival-in-swak/