Good day everyone. I've been delayed by an emergency by the time I'm about to do this posting for the Harvest Festival Finale day 2 last week. So, only today that I'm able to have my thought together to write this entry. It's already in the middle of June and it's quite sometime already since the end of Harvest festival. Now, the male pageant that called Mr.Kaamatan which is similar to the Unduk Ngadau Pageant are happening which I'm not able to go cover since I'm quite busy with my video editing works this weeks.
Here's a few shoots that I managed to get during the finale day of the Harvest festival which include the marching in of all the Unduk Ngadau participant to the main hall in which they will be contesting for the Unduk Ngadau crown. There's a total of 44 contestant that each will represent their own district to get the Unduk Ngadau crown.
After the marching in of all the Unduk Ngadau contestant, I didn't managed to get a photo for the rest of the event as it is closed and limited to a few hundred people only inside the hall. This is due to the restriction of covid and for us to get inside, we needed a pass which I don't have any idea where to get it and me together with the other friends went on street shooting along the traditional houses for the second time. Here's a few street shoot style that I managed to get on that day.
Mostly the traditional dances that occur in the ethnic houses attract a lot of crowd and some even involved the visitor to dance along with them. Since that the border is only recently open, there's still not many tourist can be spotted in this event. There's a few but mostly they have already been living here for a very long time. The crowd is not like before the pandemic in which I myself are very reluctant to come because of the sea of people. This kind of crowd for me is just nice and quite comfortable to move around but in future it may not be like this anymore. As the pandemic phase is slowly being revert to endemic phase, event like this next year will surely attract even more crowd than this year have. By that time, I will have to think twice to visit this place again or it might need me a sheer will power to just even drive and come to this place again. Hopefully I'll still be motivated to come and document this event next year again. Until then, have a great day everyone.