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Published: June 27th 2008
A trip up the Rejang River is just another journey … or is it? Rivers are still the highways of Sarawak’s heartlands. The river banks are rich in foliage and longhouses are spaced along them. The wooden forts, built by the White Rajas when they ‘pacified’ the inland tribes, have been turned into museums. Tall durian trees and painted burial boxes look down on the passing speed boats.
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Kapit
Dear Gillian Thank you for your remarkable writeup on the Rejang (You have spelt it Renjang) . I am looking forward to my own group trip to the longhouses of Kapit this Friday. My friend Daniel Yiek told me about your blog. It is indeed heartwarming to know that you have written about it and I am about to write about it too. You have a different perspective as a traveller and I will see what I am going to write. My previous 5 trips were made more than 40 years ago. So I am going back an an "elder". But Kapit may still be just the same giving me all the pleasures of someone going back to the forest!! Perhaps only the river is brown. But I may be totally wrong. Hoping to hear from you too.