Hello everyone, I had an amazing week, so let’s catch up where we left. After Sibu I took a rapid boat to Kapit, which is a little town on the river Batang Rajang. The town in itself doesn’t have a lot to offer, but from there, you can visit some Iban longhouse. Let me tell you a bit more about the Iban people. The Iban were the original inhabitants of the Borneo Island and were farmers and hunters. The Ibans became pioneers of headhunting which, among the Ibans, is believed to have started when their lands became over-populated. In those days, before the arrival of western civilization, intruding on lands belonging to other tribes resulted in death. Confrontation was the only way of survival. In those days, the way of war was the only way that
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