oh oh guys guys i think i see him over there i think i see him okay
act normally i cool abnormal don't be nervous
i've been on uh team abroad since 3 000 subscribers
and now 100 000. oh nice to see you man nice youtube brother you too
all right so it is a big welcome to sarawak from not only the jet lag warriors but also
from ken abroad now if you don't know ken abroad where do you live siberia no i'm kidding but uh
take a second to introduce yourself ken well i'm ken abroad i'm traveling around southeast asia my
goal is to visit every country in southeast asia and that's what's going on on my channel boom
nailed it so ken is sort of our youtube brother because he started at a similar time
to us similar intentions on youtube similar incredible
videos that everybody loves so make sure to check out canada's channel
now we're staying in this incredible accommodation which we really love because
it's sort of surrounded by the rainforest obviously the beach beside me here and it
is really a pleasure to travel with famous people like ken because ken's room is something special
he's staying in a sort of egg-shaped duplex where it's got a really unique sort of design inside
and sort of a roundabout way and beautiful view and up there there is a cliff top pool
which we enjoyed this morning very great so yvonne and i have a more simple room down here more or
less just a hotel room but still very nice and i really love how there's the rainforest all around
because later today we are going to the rainforest music festival so it's our first time at this
event it's a collection of world music traditional instruments and just kind of groovy people
uh dreadlocks and tattoos good vibes so big shout out to cerebral tourism who has invited
us as well as ken to help show this world music festival oh by the way media pass media pass
you're looking at two vips right here three vips right here i'm having my passenger room
not on them right now okay guys next step let's go to the rainforest music festival
and see what it's all about super duper excited for this let's go ivana you gotta jump okay good
enough all right we have made it to sarawak cultural village which seems to
be a really good venue for a music festival because it's sort of built around this pond
which is quite beautiful as well as it is littered with these traditional houses which
are beautiful but also remarkably massive and so inside each traditional house there is a workshop
as well as lots of different music lessons and cool things happening all around of the phone
which is stay your index finger now to be clear the music festival properly starts at sundown
once the sun goes down the professional musicians will come out and everybody will
be jumping and partying we have seen some small daytime concerts everybody was screaming house
and so i think it's going to be a pretty live festival tonight there are lots of concert
goers and party people and lots of tattoos i think i've learned that in sarawak the natives
have a tattoo culture yeah it's more than just artwork it's something belief system oriented
but hopefully we can learn more about what is going on here because there are some workshops
so we've come quite early hopefully we can participate in a workshop or two
and this way we can learn something before we have some cervezas and uh house
so next stop maybe a workshop inside a traditional house which is actually cheers yes i think it's
my favorite cheers i've ever heard it's oha but you have to hold the o for four or five seconds
i think it's the best cheers in the whole world all right next stop workshop let's go
celebrity sighting celebrity sighting oh celebrity sighting hi there you are how are you man all
right introducing a man who needs no introduction this is the global gibbon himself one of the most
recommended you must meet this guy on all of our channel okay really yes everyone told us
sarawakian celebrity uh honorary sarawakian at this point i'll take it so you can maybe act
as our tour guide because you've been living here for like a decade or so yeah yeah decade gee that
sounds long that's true 11 years yep boom so one of the things we're curious about is the tattoos
it seems like there is a cultural component to these tattoos in sarawak absolutely maybe
we can sink our teeth into some information in this festival right so yeah here in the festival
there is actually a booth here as bunch of guys doing tattooing so these are like the cool local
tattoo dudes and tattooing is a big part of especially the iban group the people the iban
people that live here in sarawak okay um and it's a majority of uh sarawak and yes they do tattooing
so i've got these these tattoos right here okay shoulders and i've got one on this side as well
this is even tattoo yes so these are the ibun tattoos and the story goes that traditionally um
boys when they become of age when they come of age they would get these tattoos and then after
that they would set off on a journey a journey of discovering themselves they would travel
through the jungle um and then they would go to another village maybe and then they would get
additional tattoos on the back and on and on and on and then after maybe a year or two of traveling
they'll come back home and they will tell their story based on their tattoos that they've gotten
from the family so and there's so many more tattoos people have leg tattoos here right
and whatever so are there more to come on your back or you're good with the shoulders my wife
made a pact with my mom that i'm not allowed to have any more tattoos happy
happy wife happy life yeah yeah i guess okay thanks for talking to us maybe next we'll go
see those tattoo guys yeah sure let's go there the best you're the best dude all right cool cheers
all right so not a lot of interaction with the guys here because they are super busy there's uh
three i should say four people tattooing right now and i will say the guys are really really
friendly so we did learn that if you have a neck tattoo this means you successfully head hunted
yeah in the old days in the old days now our friend behind us here had a decade too and
he's saying no it's just redesign but each of the tattoos has a little bit of a story attached to it
like nick was saying down the back uh progressing more and more so quite interesting i wish we could
talk to them a little more but they're all very very busy uh tattooing people even a hand poke
tattoo yeah so we save only maybe i don't know maybe let me see maybe maybe one here
ah so you are iban yes this is so this is the um the symbol of an elephant
so what we do on the left is that elephant has big legs right so
we do this on the legs so you're strong steady yeah we will fall easily
thank you every tattoo has a meaning but some they are just custom made
this is custom that this one is designed fair this artwork yeah yeah that would work okay there you
have it guys i think with that it's time to get to the main stage and start to party let's go
yo it's a full-on music festival with traditional instruments i did not expect this yo
most music festivals the guy at the front has got one headphone and he presses play
this is a music festival with bongos and loots and sapes and everybody is jamming bro
this is actually so live this place is actually so alive right now
okay
everybody
keep it up
so we compose this song and we name it custom empty
my sincere apologies buddy cheers cheers so my sincere apologies to the rainforest music festival
it seems like part of the show here is drinking it seems like part of the show here is drinking
and we just experienced the entire first show stone sober and so for this reason i apologize
and i tell you that for the next show i will drink twice as much okay i'm doing my part
wow all shout out to the performers there i never saw a guy rock a festival with
thousands of people playing the the nose flute no kidding he's playing in flute
with his nose and everyone's jumping around going wild where else in the
world would you find that that was something special that was really something special
all right now that we are in a place where you guys can probably hear me better i wanted to give
a 30 second review first of all the sound system is very good the audio is clear and fantastic
uh second of all the music was perfect for a festival it was like arena's music everyone
jumping and everyone great and honestly the crowd was incredible the crowd was live they were really
reacting to the music i'm not exactly a music festival person so i don't know what
it would be like in canada but the crowd was electric i would say best party in malaysia
the best party in malaysia okay so first things first we're gonna go for a couple drinks
uh do our part to experience the festival the way it was meant to be experienced and then evidently
the next band is canadian meaning they're probably fantastic oh i can't wait let's go
wow
me
all right so to be clear the canadian band was not as party time as the previous band but still
very talented and the lady there i believe is from vancouver canada so shout out to canada
and she's playing something called the zhang which is a traditional chinese instrument sort
of like a lie down harp i would call it incredibly talented what she was doing looked like it was uh
took years and years of practice maybe decades and the guy sitting beside her was actually the
artistic director of the whole festival so i believe he was the one who put everything
together and he was playing something called the sate which is sort of like a guitar on your
lap again traditional instruments it's sort of incredible how they combine these simple
traditional string instruments with like a pretty epic rock and roll sound
it wasn't as party vibe as the first band we saw but overall we stayed for two shows uh we
drank some beers we got very sweaty from dancing and we had a great time oh it was great it was
better than i expected to be honest to be clear the first part this morning was a little bit slow
hey thank you for watching true reikan the first part this morning was yeah i
would say that the evening part was more exciting yes exactly right exactly right
what could be better than that oh my gosh and i don't mean it as an expression i mean it literally
what could be better than that we partied all night last night dancing until our feet hurt
and then this morning as a bit of a hangover cure we took the little boat out and i sat right on the
front of the boat i was feeling the wind on my face and the beautiful blue water i was focusing
on broadening my shoulders and strengthening my spine and elongating the esophagus as i did
meditation on the front of the boat wow what a blast it was relaxation on the starboard side
what you did in the front there looked pretty scary like holding the phone like this
that's what he does to uh to film a vlog for you wearing this phone worth it holding it at
full speed like this in the front of the boat wow worth it man worth it i was a little slow
this morning because of the party last night but that was like oh man i'm rejuvenated bro
so can we jump in already always jump in this water and so we're staying on the island just
over there and we came here now which i believe is a turtle sanctuary so we've got
an addition to the vlog we thought the vlog was the party but the vlog is the whole experience
here in sarawak now by the way i might have had beer caps in my ears last night but i believe i
heard everybody other than me saying surowak and i'm saying sarawak i think it's surawak sarawak
anyway guys this will go on all morning okay next up turtle ceremony here in sarawak
okay good news and bad news the good news is we had an absolutely
great first impression of sarawak we really did not know what to expect
with the rainforest music festival and it turned out to be an absolute party with really good music
and then our trip this morning was just sort of the cherry on top the boat ride and the
beach here are just absolutely fantastic now to be clear there are no turtles visible in the
turtle sanctuary today so here we are at the hatchery where there are baby turtles who are
not visible right now because they're not uh they're under the sand they're buried although the
idea is this lovely fella here who actually is a huge fan of can abroad you should see his channel
they're all saying oh it's kind of bright oh my gosh so make sure to go to ken's video he's got
some good conversations with the locals but um he takes care of all the babies and then when they're
ready to hatch they will walk to the ocean and they sort of guide them there to keep them safe
you want to go swim and see some turtles yes
let's go okay guys thanks for watching our uh video shout out to ken abroad shout out
to sir walk and i will see you guys in the next one which should be a few videos with
sir rock tourism and then a road trip with ken abroad which is really something special i'm
super looking forward to the road trip with ken abroad as well as the dodo explorers there will be
some funny happenings i'm sure some good videos of the three of us with our friends the dodos
going around uh sarawak in a four by four okay thanks for watching guys shout out to star wars
how's the water
this is the best this is the absolute best good idea ken good idea buddy