Sarawak Cultural (V)illage #atozchallenge

Sarawak Cultural Village (SCV) is well-known as a living museum and features traditional houses from a variety of races and indigenous groups. The traditional houses are either actual houses, broken down into their parts, transported from its original site and then carefully rebuilt at the cultural village, or replicas built on-site. Of course, one of the first traditional houses I explored when I went there previously was the Rumah Bidayuh or Bidayuh House. It’s known as a Barok, a round head-house which is the central common area of a typical Bidayuh village. My mum’s village is pretty modern and doesn’t have a Barok, so it was nice to explore a traditional head-house.

Definitely the highlight of the visit to SCV is catching the live dance shows which if I recall, are held twice a day. The live performance features indigenous dances like the ngajat, which is the Iban traditional dance. Towards the end of the performance, they’ll invite attendees to dance on stage with them. Naturally, I shy away from this.