Gallery: Borneo, The Last Market
July 9, 2014
PortMoresby visits the market in Kuching, Borneo, one of the last to continue as an open-air economy
PortMoresby visits the market in Kuching, Borneo, one of the last to continue as an open-air economy
The impetus for my trip to Borneo came, as it often does for me, from a casual reference or suggestion, in this case both. First was a phrase I’d seen in passing, “White Rajas of Borneo”.
The impetus for my trip to Borneo came, as it often does for me, from a casual reference or suggestion, in this case both. First
Kuching, in Malaysian Borneo, was founded by an adventurous Englishman, Rajah James Brooke, on the Sarawak River that was the only access to the interior of that part of Borneo.
To view any society one dimensionally makes no sense, of course, except maybe for the sake of a good headline (pun intended). The people of Borneo were, however, sometimes prone to settling disputes with warfare that included collecting enemy heads.
PortMoresby visits the market in Kuching, Borneo, one of the last to continue as an open-air economy
The impetus for my trip to Borneo came, as it often does for me, from a casual reference or suggestion, in this case both. First was a phrase I’d seen in passing, “White Rajas of Borneo”.
The impetus for my trip to Borneo came, as it often does for me, from a casual reference or suggestion,
Kuching, in Malaysian Borneo, was founded by an adventurous Englishman, Rajah James Brooke, on the Sarawak River that was the only access to the interior of that part of Borneo.
To view any society one dimensionally makes no sense, of course, except maybe for the sake of a good headline (pun intended). The people of Borneo were, however, sometimes prone to settling disputes with warfare that included collecting enemy heads.