THOUSANDS of people, the majority of them ethnic Bidayuhs, took advantage of the public holiday today to make the annual trek up the 304m-high Bung Bratak in Bau, some 40km from Kuching.
The hill is of great significance – some even say it is sacred – to the Bidayuhs of the Jagoi-Bratak sub-tribe as it was where their forefathers settled after migrating from Sungkong in West Kalimantan 800 years ago.