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Travel and Photography | Family Trips | Kota Belud Paddy Field | Sabah
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Family Trips | Kota Belud Paddy Field | Sabah “If these picture have anything important to say to future generations, it’s this, I was here, existed. I was young, I was happy, and someone cared enough about me in this world to take my picture” – Robin Williams – We are having a great time at Kota Belud Paddy Field. Kota Belud is the rice bowl of Sabah but it is not the main tourist attraction. Most people come to Sabah for it’s beautiful Island, Beaches and to climb a Mount Kinabalu. Kota Belud paddy field normally not on their itinerary of must visit…
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Travel Photography | Kota Belud Once Upon a Time in 2005
© 2005 Wazari Wazir | Kota Belud, Sabah Paddy Field | Nikon D70s With 18-70mm Lens “As a Child, The Paddy Field Was My Playground.” – Abdullah Ahmad Badawi – Actually the paddy field was also my playground during my early childhood but back then our family didn’t have a camera to freeze the moment, so I don’t have a photographs to prove it to you. Anyway this photographs were taken in September 2005, with my first DSLR which is Nikon D70s during my honeymoon with wife at Kota Belud, just a few month after our marriage. Kota Belud is the rice bowl of Sabah, the paddy field was quite…
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Family Photography Trips at Kota Belud Sabah
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Family Outing at Kota Belud Rice Field | Sabah Malaysia North Borneo I’ve always wanted to get a photograph of my family against a beautiful backdrop of paddy field, I like the rustic feeling of it. The closer that I can get it from Kuala Lumpur is heading to Sekinchan or Sungai Besar located at Selangor approximately two hours drive from Kuala Lumpur, but after five month, since my third child were born, we didn’t manage to get there. So when we are on a holiday in Sabah, visiting my mother-in-law, my friend, Azman Jumat suggested to us to visit Kota Belud and here we…
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Travel Photography | The Rungus People Of Sabah | Malaysia North Borneo
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | The Rungus People of Sabah | Malaysia North Borneo The Rungus are an ethnic group of Borneo, residing primarily in northern Sabah in the area surrounding Kudat. A sub-group of the Kadazan-Dusun, they have a distinctive language, dress, architecture, customs, and oral literature. Considered one of the most traditional ethnic groups in Sabah, many Rungus live in longhouses, with each family having its own separate quarters off a common hall. At the edge of the communal hall, a well-ventilated platform of split bamboo with outward sloping walls provides a place for socialising and communal work. The Rungus longhouse is quite different from the Murut longhouse.…
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Malaysia Day Golden Jubilee Celebration | Face of Sabah Malaysia North Borneo
© 2013 Wazari Wazir | Face Of Borneo Sabah is a unique land, a melting pot of many indigenous and immigrant groups. The population comprises over thirty-one different ethnic races and 80 over different languages or dialects. The beautiful thing is all these diverse ethnic groups live together harmoniously while at the same time preserving their own culture, traditions, festivals and customs. The indigenous group in Sabah include the Kadazan Dusun, Bajau, Murut, Rungus, Lotud, Brunei, Orang Sungai, Kadayan, Bisaya and many others sub-groups. The photograph above were taken during the celebration of Malaysia Day Golden Jubilee at the Prince Philip Park, Tanjung Aru, Kota Kinabalu Sabah. She was standing…