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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Cachecoins, post: 4606259, member: 111237&quot;]I have done quite a bit of traveling myself but never to Borneo but I would love to one day. </p><p><br /></p><p>As for the Dayaks, if I am not mistaken, it is an umbrella term for hundreds of different ethnically district subgroups of indigenous people that live mainly around rivers and further in the interior. However visitors to the island would more commonly see the sea and river Dayaks as they would be the ones who would travel on the rivers and live around the coastal areas that are more developed. The ones who live deeper in the interior of the island tend to be far more isolated and less likely to have interaction with visitors.</p><p><br /></p><p>This area was also inhabited by Malay, ancestors of Chinese who came to work there and even more ethic groups. The people are an incredibly diverse mix of hundreds of ethnic groups and even more ethnic subgroups stemming from Borneo being a place that has been visited and settled by neighboring islands and groups from the mainland for centuries.This has made it difficult to rule or govern and caused the Sultanates that dominated the coastlines no end of trouble.</p><p><br /></p><p>One interesting note about the Dayaks is that it was this group, the so called Sea Dayaks that were often engaged in piracy and the Rajahs of Sarawak employed other Dayaks to fight them. He saw them as very effective warriors on both sea and land supposedly saying &quot;only Dayaks can kill Dayaks.&quot;[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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