About Annah Rais Longhouse
Annah Rais Longhouse is located at about 60km away from Kuching City. It is a large & old Bidayuh Tribe's Longhouse that houses over 80 families. Majority of the us here are still live in a traditional way of longhouse's living. We plant paddy, cocoa, pepper, rubber & etc. for living.
Annah Rais longhouse has a written history of 175 years old (over 500 years old of unwritten history, which counting to approximately 8 generations old) to date. Many tourists from all over the world come to visit Annah Rais Longhouse everyday, & they just fascinated with the traditional way of living here.
Live with us under one roof!
Our community living's concept is, everyone of us in the village live under one roof - a longhouse style. A longhouse consists of many doors (one door one family with 2 to 3 bed-rooms per door). In our community of Annah Rais Longhouse, many of us (families) actually participate in our homestay programme by offering a clean guestroom for you & our other guests to put up a night. You will be staying with any one of us during the night time, & the rest of the time you will be grouped together for meals, tours & activities.
** Please note we reserve the right at our sole discretion to arrange the guestroom for you to stay & overnight when you participate in our Longhouse Adventure's programme.
Guestroom
Our guestroom is basic, just exactly like our own bedroom, if not better. We make every effort to make sure that they are always clean, cosy & comfortable place for you to overnight during your stay. We also ensure that everything is will be prepared & put in place before you come in for a rest or sleep. Our guestrooms come with a cooling fan, comfortable mattress, blanket, pillow & etc.
Facilities
Facilities include luggage storage, use of our kitchen (if you bring your own food), laundry service, 3 meals daily (serve local traditional delicacies), free flow of coffee & tea (ask for traditional herbal tea too), traditional costume for photographing, musical instruments, traditional water-based tobacco & still counting. Best of all, they are all FREE of charge.
Meals
We serve you 3 meals daily with our traditional local signature dishes, especially our world famous bamboo rice & bamboo chicken. The rice we serve is from our own cultivated paddy field, the vegetables are from our farm, & the ferns ("paku" & "midin") are collected from the surrounding jungle. They grown up without pesticide. They taste sweet & juicy, because no pesticide applied, & it's simply healthy & "organic".
Drinks
We prepare coffee, tea, or Milo (chocolate drink) with boiled water. All our drinking water is boiled, so rest assured that all gems are killed (if there's any) before we drink it. Our water is pumpep from the mountain's spring water and they are clean, fresh, & best of all, chlorine free.
We will serve you our organic herbal tea too. It just taste so good, & also known to be good for health, especially for those with hypertension. At night, we will serve you our precious home-brewed rice wine that simply taste better than any commercial wine or liquor in the market. We have added the special ingredient of fresh honey & some herbs too. According to one of our guest, it smells like a Remy Martin, but taste 10 times better than Remy Martin. Well, talk is cheap, you got to try it yourself.
Swimming
Just right beside our longhouse, there's a small stream with the crystal clear & cold running water from the mountain. You can simply relax yourself by soaking yourself into the water. You can even trek through the jungle to a beautiful 3-tier waterfall. We have a guided tour that bring guest to this exotic waterfall for swimming, relax & picnic. Besides, many other waterfalls or beautiful streams can be found around our village too. They are absolutely beautiful, natural & completely untouched. It is safe to swim at any waterfalls or streams, no crocodile, no shark, so no worry.
What to bring
There's no hypermarket, not even a shops nearby our longhouse. We only have a small mini-mart run by our fellow villager for the basic supply only. You are advised to purchase all your stuffs at Kuching before heading up to our longhouse. Below are some general packing list for your reference:
Insect repellent, personal medication, cigarette, tooth paste & brush, soap & shampoo (you can use ours too if you don't mind), lotion, sun block cream, comb, shaver, long-sleeve shirt & long pant (in case it gets cold at night), underwear, tower, casual clothes, shoes/boots (for jungle trekking), swim-suit, sandals, flashlight (if you plan for night jungle trekking), camera, camcorder, lenses, memory cards, films, charger, binocular, hat, sunglasses & watch.