Hello readers! It has been ages since I last posted something here. Anyway, let’s not waste any more time, why don’t you just sit back because in a few seconds or so, I am going to write about our famous Kampong Ayer, a part of our unique heritage =)
For almost 600 years, the capital’s sprawling water village, Kampong Ayer, has been the most important evidence proving the existence of Brunei for centuries. This village consists of scattering homes and various facilities such as mosques, schools, clinics and fire stations. Until this day, water taxis and boats are the most efficient and popular means of negotiating the Kampung’s labyrinthine waterways. From their prows, one could see the mosque’s glistening minarets rising above multi-hued garden-draped homes.
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Kampong Ayer
facilities such as water boats, taxis and mosque.
Brunei is a modern and civilized country with its people practicing high technology and gadgets but beyond the cold blinking faces of computer screens and beneath the hum of modems, Kampung Ayer’s heart still dances to an ancient rhythm.
Apart from Kampong Ayer, the practice of making traditional handicrafts such as brass-smithing, silver-smithing and kain tenunan (cloth weaving) is part of our heritage too and being passed down from a generation to another. Brass-smithing and silver-smithing are mainly important for manufacturing our traditional musical instruments such as gulintangan and sometimes for the purpose of making jewelry where as pretty and colourful traditional clothings such as ‘baju kurong’, ‘kain jongsarat’ and ‘sinjang’ are produced in the end of cloth-weaving process.
'Jongsarat' , 'gulintangan' and 'meriam bedil'
For almost 600 years, the capital’s sprawling water village, Kampong Ayer, has been the most important evidence proving the existence of Brunei for centuries. This village consists of scattering homes and various facilities such as mosques, schools, clinics and fire stations. Until this day, water taxis and boats are the most efficient and popular means of negotiating the Kampung’s labyrinthine waterways. From their prows, one could see the mosque’s glistening minarets rising above multi-hued garden-draped homes.
Kampong Ayer
facilities such as water boats, taxis and mosque.
Brunei is a modern and civilized country with its people practicing high technology and gadgets but beyond the cold blinking faces of computer screens and beneath the hum of modems, Kampung Ayer’s heart still dances to an ancient rhythm.
Apart from Kampong Ayer, the practice of making traditional handicrafts such as brass-smithing, silver-smithing and kain tenunan (cloth weaving) is part of our heritage too and being passed down from a generation to another. Brass-smithing and silver-smithing are mainly important for manufacturing our traditional musical instruments such as gulintangan and sometimes for the purpose of making jewelry where as pretty and colourful traditional clothings such as ‘baju kurong’, ‘kain jongsarat’ and ‘sinjang’ are produced in the end of cloth-weaving process.
'Jongsarat' , 'gulintangan' and 'meriam bedil'
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