Rainforest Music festival

I'm slightly out of sequence now (I will correct the order before the book goes to print';)  but I forgot I hadn't told you about the Rainforest music festival that we went to in Kuching. (anyone know the difference between rainforest and jungle? I had to google it.)

We picked the busiest weekend of the year to visit Kuching - there was the rainforest music festival on and it is a big deal. check it out here Rainforest music festival

We finally got some accommodation in Kuching by the way - first night in the best hostel in the world but the next two nights we had to splash out and get a proper hotel which still only cost 30 quid a night.

The festival itself took place in a Cultural village about 40 minutes out of Kuching - you are just kind of delivered to the edge and you have to make your own way through the rainforest to the village. Once you are there it's quite a spectacular setting with authentic tribal villages and huts mixed in with marquees, food stalls, beer tents and music stages.

We arrived about four o'clock and the first band weren't on until 7pm so we just mooched around, had some beer and noodles waiting for the likes  of coldplay and U2 to make an appearance. Unfortunately when it did begin the line up was not quite up to Glastonbury or T in the Park but the torrential rain (it is a rainforest after all) made things rather more like home, very very muddy.


I won't go into huge detail about all the bands but the highlights of the Friday night were an Indian band (video to follow) you can watch them practice in their bedroom here Layatharanga, the low point was a Bulgarian trio called the bisserov sisters - if you follow the link I think you will get an idea of how well they might go down at a concert (and this looks like them in their prime about twenty years ago) They scored "nil points".


we had to get up really early the next day to go and visit the orang utans at Semengoggh the next day so we didn;t see out the night even though the rain had stopped - but we had a very funny day at the music festival and was well worth going along but probably not something you should specifically come to Borneo just to catch (or at least research the line up and make sure you miss the Bisserov sisters - in fact, I'm pretty sure they won't be invited back so you'll be safe).

What about the orang utans I hear you ask - well that's a different story with many more pitcures of the Ginger ones, we got closer to them this time, saw a full size adult male, and saw them walking around on the ground but these ones aren't as wild and authentic as the ones at Sepilok.

SB.