Visiting the Penan is the most wonderful experience my life ever had. The Penan is a race which is calm and gentle. The Penan in Sarawak interior is totally different from what people see over Samenanjung Malaysia or even the other Pre-bumi in city.
The Penan in the interior find a living by going to jungle or to their farms. Other words, if you are willing to work you will survive. Unlike what we face in city, we might wish to get a job yet the job opportunities available are very limited. This result in much stress in work.
Out of my expectation, old folks in Penan are even more durable than the youngster. Their speed and reflex is so much swifter than the young man. One of the aged hunters in Penan even out ran a deer and kill it with its spear. In jungle, people are advise to greet older once from a distance, because greet face to face(near) might sometimes be miss-sinter-prated as an assault due to the quick hunting reflex. The issue of head hunters that attack the interior pribumi also contribute to this reflex of defence.
They are really unlike city old folks!
The hunting equipments of the Penan are as bellow.
- blow pipe
- parang
- hunting rifle
- tombak
Jungle is also a place that I could really life out my masculine heart as a male. The environment and challenge that I encounter in the nature makes me more man like. It is such as life giving experience and I'm surely going to visit them again. Trust me, there is still much stories to write in. But I think I will leave it to you.
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