all right so the last leg of our road trip has us driving from bentulu to miri
and we're making one pit stop at what is being called a modern longhouse so not sure what to
expect but pretty excited for this because we've seen quite a few longhouses on our road trip and
on our borneo journey but nothing like this so from the outside it sort of looks like a mall
i could imagine one end having a food court and maybe a 7-eleven and a hair salon and some
convenience stores but believe it or not it is a long house now we've learned that we're supposed
to bring gifts it's customary to bring gifts to longhouse because the chief has allowed us
access granted to come inside um so we're not sure what to bring although we brought some
alarms we brought some uh fruits dragon fruits and bananas hopefully this will be
a passable gift anyway with all that being said let's go inside and see what we can see
in the modern longhouse excited for this
oh wow guys check this out
very nice so special thanks to our host today sukarno and um madame shetty
thanks for bringing us today
all right so first impressions of a modern longhouse naturally it is
very long i asked which is how many doors meaning how many families live here and
it's 32. so there are 32 families living in this modern longhouse and you might expect
what stands out to me is just how modern it is because the tile work is amazing and evidently
in each room there's air conditioning but in fact what stands out to me is
it's so quiet and there's nobody here because our experience in the longhouses has been it's always
lots of people around lots of people to talk to they're curious they're engaging and it's
sort of a very community atmosphere so my first impression is wow this is like a quiet
long house the quietest long house we've been to so far all the other hot folks here they all work
at the farm at the back of their house so these people all depend on this one oil pump
so the during the day time the language is empty but there are people in the house
during the evening time i see after they come back that this is full of
poor people people right right so now they're working at the oil palm farms right thank you
all right so it seems the chief is a little bit more busy than we expected so we are going to
venture around the back of the longhouse now to be clear we are with a local who's very familiar
with this place and we are not sneaking around without the chief what i didn't realize though
is there's a second floor in this long house so it really is a modern longhouse everyone's got
a brand new car out front there's a couple chickens and a couple of small farms out front
but more or less this is a almost like a townhouse in canada yeah where everyone has their own house
it's just a townhouse with a connected lobby in front of the house so it's very modern and sort
of familiar to us really nice experience this is our third or fourth long house we've been to and
totally unique maybe more and totally unique uh let's go check out the backyard
wow check it out guys the backyard really shows you the vastness and the sheer size
of the longhouse so everyone's got a back gate that i think you can drive your car right in
and then inside there's a sort of under the roof half indoor backyard which leads into
the long house and i guess it sort of makes sense that nobody's around in the modern longhouse
because everything is very big and brand new and expensive and so everybody is at work now to be
clear the people in the tribal longhouses are also very hard-working people they're just not doing
modern jobs where they earn a lot of money they're doing fishing and farming and stuff like that
but everyone here is more like at a modern job nine to five although even in a modern longhouse
still some chickens around and some farming happening and some roosters
okay fighting chickens [ __ ] fighting chickens they make [ __ ] fights here in a modern long
house i didn't expect that ken good info good vlogging buddy so these are not from mckenna
mckenna these are big [ __ ] fighting chickens okay i didn't expect that i really didn't expect
that but i guess we can journey into someone's backyard here and again we're with a local who
has asked permission and we are not trespassing by any means uh so this is like a backyard
maybe like an outdoor kitchen and then a almost like a garage and then into the house
dining room in there oh i see i see wow the uh the feeling here is just great you got the
the audio you've got the big long house bit of an adventure and just a good feeling being
here very very friendly people hello hello good morning are these are these your chicken no no no
long house oh going out
here oh the chief is out now but these are his chickens yeah okay nice to meet you
okay check it out guys we've managed to meet one guy who is inviting us in
his house so this is his backyard the coke fighting chickens are just over there and
now we're going to go in okay can't come maybe uh remove the shoes no no
it's okay just follow me okay okay i'm the chief you're the chief today today the chief for a day
okay sounds good just for a few minutes few minutes okay okay my shoes are clean
so this would be like the backyard or like the sort of dining area dining area this is the open
closet open concept backyard actually very similar to the tribal longhouse it's just all new yeah and
much bigger much bigger and just new but same kind of arrangement fantastic and i think a welcome
so let me say thank you very much for having us at the longhouse thank you very much different
countries different nationalities different beliefs but one world one people satu malaysia
oh that's amazing you have the same name connected yeah
i should have had more than race movies
thank you
he's inviting all of us to his son's wedding and he said we must come
i don't know if you know but my wife
i know she's a beautiful princess
yes
generous with love in the long house
this is the best one you must try so i gotta finish
so so this one that's one that's why i want you to take it
smells stronger
honestly oh he finished in one go no you're the best i'm gonna be like you i am not the best
but i'm your friend okay because you are you you come here you respect me i never come to your
place yeah that's why in our traditional we have to accept people with our open heart like this
so when you come to canada you call me canada we can drink some uh canadian
oh i when i went when i coming to canada i want you to bring me to the skis
good but when you come to my place we can go to the ski we go what the full time
okay sarah waterfall jump canada okay
i just want you all to know i love you all okay thank you you finish again
look at this
just taking you guys on a tour inside one of the resident's house so this is the backyard and
the layout of the houses for most of them from the backyard will come into the kitchen here
let's see very nice and modern kitchen actually
uh-huh i like it yeah you can see we can see ourselves cooking here gigi
making rich exactly look at this and then this is the hangout space
where everyone drinks eat together
and this is inside the house modern house there are two stories so first floor and second floor
and this is the house living room wow
very nice house
wow look at this and inside this house they have ac and fans christmas trees still there
look at this it's actually pretty big it looks like a modern house like any other modern house
and then we come out and this is the hallway where we were earlier today
and this is just the front parking garage wow interesting this is
amazing and this is just the neighbor the neighbor's house looks similar to this one
i think all the longhouse have a similar layout all the houses
look at this very nice
and all the kids actually you see a picture of kids they're at school right now so that's why
the long house is pretty empty and everyone is at work and i think it's their bedroom up there
and that's it pretty nice
sure
very nice look at the hospitality here guys it's amazing
you're right six stars six times be honest yes are you really amazing
okay so anyway i'm very thankful to him okay oh thank you so much thank you
the best guy yeah you really can't beat it very nice it's a different long house it's modern
yes but the spirit of the long house is the same yes the spirit of giving
is the same independent of the air conditioning and the walls yeah the spirit is the same thing
we are now stuck on two lanes people are trying to go forward nobody coming something is happening
and steve is snoring ropes the road trip is going very good so far all right and just like
that we have made it to miri and after a double cheeseburger as well as three glasses of water
i am feeling much better and i am back to life and back to reality so let us
show you our airbnb for the night and then we'll let you go okay yo check it out
check it out
check it out we are the best dude nice apartment big enough to play baseball in shadow to
nickelback all right there you have it now guys important to end the vlog by talking about sukarno
because this man that we met in a long house i would describe him as so sincere yes at first it
makes you suspicious no he's so overwhelmingly sincere for at least five minutes you gotta go
what's happening here why is this man so nice no he's and then you get to know him and you realize
he's just someone to admire someone to look up to someone who strives to be super kind-hearted
man super genuine super sincere he almost made me cry ivan was almost in tears in the car yeah so
sincere uh someone to really amazing hospitality in science by uh the people the tribal people
that lives in a long house boom wow they treat you as your own as their own family true fact yeah you
walk in and you feel like family immediately yes yes just amazing the guy said sukano said steve
you're my son now he said i must come back and now i just realized i left my hat in the long house
so now i must come back so sarawak will see you next year when we come back for our
uh long house part two as well as redemption of my hat it's very different than the other long house
we have visited before very modern but it could be inside but even a different but the same in spirit
the same in spirit yes the people were the same the friendliness the outgoing hey you come over
here let's have a drink yes the conversation is saying you're saying this layout is more modern
it's more luxurious just like any other house but it's right beside one another with a big
hallway in the front boom the backyard is like wow concreting chickens in the back all right
there you have it guys we will see you in the next one and thanks for watching later skaters
look at this one yo who am i bill gates this is the nicest place i ever stayed
shout out to us this is the benefits of traveling with four people later everybody