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Monday, July 11, 2011

Rainforest World Music Festival 2011

I've always wanted to visit RWMF 3 years back and plan always phailed. So this time,my random friend suddenly asked me whether am i interested to go cause he managed to get VIP tics and accomodation for the event. Late bookings for accommodation will definitely cost a bomb so do book in advance if u're planning to go next year.

Rainforest is rated as the Top 25 best international festivals by the magazine and people from all walks of life attended the event. During the 3 days event, it was an eye opener for me as i see ppl from different countries and "tribe". There were kids, teenagers, many many tourists and people from the forest wearing sexy underwear and clothes made out of leaves. Very interesting.

Extracted from Wikipedia:

The Rainforest World Music Festival is an annual 3-day music festival celebrating the diversity of world music, held in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, with daytime music workshops, cultural displays, craft displays, food stalls, and main-stage evening concerts. It is now one of the largest musical events in Malaysia with a total weekend audience approaching 30,000.

The festival features a wide range of performances from traditional music, to world fusion and contemporary world music. The festival emphasizes the use of traditional acoustic world instruments, although electric accompaniment instruments are common.


View from our room, the sun,sea,sand,coconut trees and fresh sea breeze. Damai Beach Resort.

Heinekabana

We had a day tour in the cultural village and that was where the festival was held.

Intruders on the bridge.

Traditional cookies.



Music is one interesting thing. you can make music beats in the lake as well.








Recharged for the party.

essential when u're in the hutan hujan tropika.

With Jack.

Our fav hang out place to booze up before we go to the main stage.

Lotsa Heinekens.

Main Stage

a pic with the guy with a sexy underwear.

The crowd.

Jack and Kent the Heineken delivery boys

On Sunday, Kent who is a Sarawakian brought us for a city tour and makan trip. We went to 7 different eating spots in a day and i ate like i've not eaten for ages.

famous Kolo mee. The noodle's texture is in between maggi mee and wantan mee texture.

Belacan noodles.

Ice Kacang and Metahorn

Sarawak Laksa.taste very much like Ipoh's curry mee.

The best siu mai i've ever had so far. The filling is pure meat.

Rojak.

They actually have Sarawak River Cruise like how they have it in overseas.


and we chose to take the semi sampan instead because the rivercruise is only open in the evening.



Kent said its a must to take picture with the cat when u're in Kuching.

Miao Miao city.

Coconut and sugarcane. Right combination to quench thirst.

some biscuit thing kiap with luncheon meat,cheese and meat sauce. We wanted to tarpau extra for supper but it was sold out.

Q-ing for our ice cream.

Yummeh homemade icecream.

making all sorts of wishes at the wishing well.

Laksamana Chengho


We left for another round of food after spending a short 15 minutes at the park because it started to rain.

Kueh Chap and WhiteLady.

Best lamb soup ever.

Our last night.matching dress from Bali with Shirley.

Beer marathon with GAB and TV3 crew.


with the sporting couple.

We are planning for our Zoukout trip in Singapore this year. More VIP privileges to come.

If you like cultural music, this would be your thing.

1 comments:

Nate @ House of Annie said...

The biscuit thing is called kompia - it's a Foochow food.

Your laksa does look a bit more like curry laksa than what I would consider "normal" Sarawak laksa.