Making a Ceramic

In the middle of the 17th, a huge migrants of Hakka tribe from Guandong, South of China, landed in Borneo. They worked as gold diggers in Monterado, West Kalimantan bringing with them the art of making ceramics. The ceramic known for the artistic style of the Ming Dynasty which shown by dragon carving on the smooth surface of the ceramic. Today, at least five small ceramic industries struggling to survive could be found in Desa Sakok, South of Singkawang.

Hio and The Old House of Xie

In 1901, the Dutch colonial government official granted a piece of land to Xie Shou Shi, a well known, important and successful business man of that time. Xie brought in architect from his hometown of Fujian to built a big house on the side of river of that land. Today, this East West-combined style mansion is the only and oldest building that still standing in the town of Singkawang.

On the right is the old house of Xie facing to west. The river on left was once wide and deep enough for river transportation heading to the open sea, used to ship commodities like rubber and coconut to Singapura.


Hio on the altar of the old house of Xie.

Teluk Suak - Pulau Kabung

   

  

 

Every morning there are boats leaving for Pulau Kabung transporting the islanders and carrying goods to sell in the island. Between Teluk Suak, the mainland, to Pulau Kabung is a gruesome sea particularly during a high tide season around September-March, the wave easily reaches 2 meter high. My travel buddy also has the same thought and he is an adventurer doing an expedition from June 2009-December 2010 to visit 100 islands in Indonesia. In our way back to the mainland, we even didn't manage to take our camera out to catch the beautiful sunset due to the high wave. Fortunately at the end we survived...from seasick :). 

Ps. Kabung also have very beautiful sea life, colorful fish and corals. Too bad, I didn't have underwater camera so I couldn't take pictures and share them here..

Children of Pasi

Lion eat hio

Hio, candle and fetish paper

Stone Breaker

when the night fall2

early morning on beach

romantic couple

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