08/06/2023
🇲🇾Malaysia| Semporna Same-Bajau
We have 2 days visit to Semporna and had Scuba Diving close to the islands. 🏝
Semporna is a small town near the sea, only need 40mins-1 hour drive, you can see a very beautiful sea scenery. 🌊
Let's talk about the culture, I am a person love to learn culture in different places.
So in the town there live some locals, and Same-Bajau, whom live with the sea. Bajau people live on the boats and they are not allowed to stay in the land for long. But everyone of them can swim and know water very well. They know how to hunt under water, how to live with the huge sea and they are almost all born on the sea.
Stay in Semporna town, you can buy seafood from them in the seafood market starts from every afternoon 2pm to 8pm.
They will leave the town at 8pm,when the ship arrived, they pay RM 2 and get on the borad, then return to where they live---the house build above the sea.
We met a lot of them in town, some child will ask you for money, or the food you holding. Even they don't know you. Some of them make a living by selling some waterproof stuffs, or anything you may need to visit islands--hats, sunglasses,selfie sticks,etc.
They are all sea hunters, so you may see lots of fresh seafood in the seafood market everyday afternoon.
We were there and tried to bargain with Bajau 2 days, we had very wonderful cheap seafood meals at the first night. In order to make money, these Bajaus even learn how to use Chinese to talk about prices with you.
I will share our seafood meals and how we bargain with them later by pics and videos.
This is a view of houses above the sea, where they live, where all starts.