Tumbang
Malahui Dayak Culture Longhouse Tours
The longhouse at Tumbang Malahui, in the Rungan district with it's
length of 30 meters and walls of tree bark give an
expression. In front of the Longhouse a sandang statue can be found.
The place can be reached from Palangkaraya overland up to Tangkiling,
then over the river to Timbering Jatuh, Rungan district to continue to
Timbering Malahui, which takes about two hours. A trip from Tangkiling
to Timbering Jatuh, takes 10 hours by klotok boat and three
hours by speedboat.
An old boat, or banama, believed to have once belonged to the Banjar
kingdom, is found on the Parigi river, a tributary of the Kahayan, at
Kantan, Pandih Batu, Kapuas regency. The length of the boat is 30
meters and the width eight meters. Other antiquities can be found
around.
Tour
Destination : Tumbang Malahui, Tangkiling Mountain,
Central Kalimantan, Indonesia
Main
Interest & Things to do :
Kaja Island visit by canoe cruise the Rungan River to spot orangutans
in the wild, with Jungle trek at Mount Tangkiling, or in the upper
reaches of the Kahayan river, Rungan River and Katingan
River, a sandung and a sapunduk, wooden structures in which
the ashes of the dead are kept. Sapunduk is a statue which serves as
pillar. This pillar is also used to tie buffaloes during certain
ceremonie. The longhouse at Tumbang Malahui, in the Rungan district,
was built in 1911 by Ongko Uwan, together with six of his relatives and
son-in-law, assisted by 400 workers. The length of the house
is 30 meters. The walls are made of tree bark, and the pillar is called
bakas or sulung.
