Our 3 day stay in Teman Negara was even better than expected-
meals on the floating restaurant were good, the night jungle walk was interesting (how to lure a scorpion from it's hideout, snakes in trees, viewing deer from a "hide" or lookout...), the canopy walk was fun, the boat rides were peaceful (until we hit the "rapids"), but what impressed me most was the visit to the nomadic aborigines- the Batek tribe. They make fire with friction on wood, and they hunt with blow pipes, using darts tipped with poison made from a tree sap. They say it takes one dart to kill a bird, 3 or 4 to kill a monkey. They let us try using a blow pipe (no poison on our darts!). I found their culture fascinating. Wikipedia says it much better than I can.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batek
 |
| making darts |
 |
| blowpipe |
 |
| making fire |
No comments:
Post a Comment