Growing up, my cousins and I heard of Batu Patong as a place where our grandparents were born, where our ancestors came from. If we are close cousins, that’s because we came from Batu Patong years ago. One story goes that a man went swimming in the nearby Kelapang river and ended up 100km downstream, and received a divine message to build a new village there. That’s what they did, and that village is where my father was born, Long Peluan. Across the decades not many people have lived in Batu Patong. Sometimes one or two families. In the last five years, people are moving back there to revive the village. This was my first time on this ancestral land 💙 thank you kakak Tracy, abang Mike and Sina Rang for the beautiful memories 🌺 Batu Patong is about 40km from Bario airport and will be open to visitors very soon 💫 it is located in Sarawak, Malaysia, along the border, in the world’s oldest rainforest.
