Tatau is a small town near Bintulu in Sarawak, Malaysia.<\/p>\n
I was passing by the town in November 2012 en route Mukah, the Melanau country in Sarawak. Some unique (read: weird) names of places sometimes pulled me back to study more. Tatau is one of them. The town of about 30000 people of mainly Iban, Melanau, Malay and Chinese\u00a0 is about 40 km from Bintulu on Bintulu-Sibu trunk road.\u00a0 Tatau itself is the name of the ethnic once discovering and early settlers of this place.\u00a0 Their ancestors came from Kalimantan, Indonesia, and their numbers now are insignificant due to migration and mixed marriages. Foreigners are aplenty here, mainly Indonesians working in timber and agriculture business.<\/p>\n
Like any other Sarawak towns, Tatau is located by the river. River transport\u00a0 are crucial for timber industry and provide links to upriver interiors.\u00a0 Pan Borneo road system to Bintulu and Sibu and the rest of Sarawak is good.<\/p>\n
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<\/a>Driving down from Bintulu, this newly-opened petrol station greets you<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Probably the biggest mall in Tatau<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>National Registration Dept -- Tatau Branch<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>A clinic in Tatau - Dr Kho probably is from Penang<\/p><\/div>\n
<\/a>Bugis Cafe at Tatau in Sarawak<\/p><\/div>\n
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<\/a>Masjid Darul Ibadah at Tatau town in Sarawak<\/p><\/div>\n