Sarawak’s headliner tourism attraction – the Rainforest World Music Festival (RWMF) – will include Tai-Chi, yoga, and other health and fitness activities. Music tourism. Cultural Tourism.
Dragon Boat racing is becoming an increasingly popular sport for city dwellers. But its origins go back hundreds of years to a Taiwanese poet who attempted to drown himself.
Once known as “The Most Remote Village in the British Empire”, Bario stages the best food festival in Borneo. Reachable only by plane unless you are a very brave jungle trekker, it is a true breath of fresh air.
From recycling to upcycling, Rainforest World Music Festival 2016 showed its commitment to lower environmental impacts while staging higher musical and social impacts on fans. Mallika Naguran hangs out at the event to bask in the festivity and deliver this report.
The 18th edition of the festival on the weekend of 7th to 9th of August 2015 will be set among lush forest greenery, crowned by the lofty Mount Santubong.
Come end of October magical sounds will reverberate from the lofty peaks in Timor-Leste. For the first time, youths, tribes and mountain folk will hit their drums and blow their horns in a folk music festival happening where the sun rises – over the misty mountains.
In 1986, the government initiated a program called “Unlad Proyekto Davao,” whose main objective was to unite the Dabawenyos after the turbulent Martial Law era. The festivity was called “Apo Duwaling,” in honor of the three royalties for which Davao is famous for.
