Miri, Malaysia Travel Blogs

Merry Miri
Jun 22, 2003 (5 photos)

... that Miri had seen better days). It boasts one of the best open public spaces I have seen anywhere in Malaysia. The Miri City Fan is a new park development that has several tastefully themed gardens with fountains and a huge square amphitheatre (where ...

Racing up the coast
Jul 10, 2005

We finally managed to escape Kapit and headed further east by fast boat, to Belaga, then north by 4WD to Bintulu. Each stop was one more in a succession of smaller and crappier places, perfumed by durian. Durian is the smelliest fruit on the planet. It ...

Niah National Park (Sarawak, Borneo) - Day 156
Jul 28, 2008 (19 photos)

Killed a three inch long cockroach with two massive blows of my shoe last night. Without being too graphic, legs and bits of the horrible creature where everywhere. This morning when I woke, the cockroach had managed to move two metres across the room. I ...

Mad Dash Through Sarawak
Jan 31, 2006

... of the car to present our passports! Easiest border crossing ever! Once across onto Malaysian soil again we zipped along the road to Miri where we had intended to stay the night. Instead we decided to skip the visit to Mulu, unfortunately, and just go ...

Leeches and Lechers
Mar 26, 2006

The lecher will actually appear in the next blog, but there are plenty of leeches in the Borneo jungle. We arrived in the Mulu national park and were allocated the vip suite. Well that was electricity from 6 to 9 pm, and if it had rained there was ...

Visite - Niah Caves - Visit
Dec 6, 2008 (32 photos)

Salut tout le monde, Nous allons bien. Nous avons veiller dans notre grand salon hier. Nous avons toute le "guest house" pour nous. Une vrai suite. Cuisine, salon avec fenestration tout autour et frigo. On vous aurait bien inviter (3 chambres de ...

Visite de Belaga! - Belaga visit
Dec 3, 2008 (19 photos)

Visite de Belaga! - Belaga visit ------------------------------------------------------ Salut tout le monde Nous allons bien. Nous avons pris le bateau ce matin a 9.00 pour Belaga. Encore un 5 heures de navigation (dans notre bateau/sous- marin ...

Malaysia Sarawack
Jun 13, 2002

How is it guys ? I would like to apologise to you for the poor state of my blog. I only opened it about 4 months ago, when I was in Costa Rica. It is the first time I spend so much time on a computer. I don't really use to it! Let me introduce myself ...

Wild Borneo
Jun 11, 2007 (22 photos)

Wild Borneo. WOW! what a ride! 9public buses, 4 long disrtance buses, 6 minivans, 3 taxis, 5 4x4's, 2 cars(paid), 2 cars (volunteered) 1 lrg. ferry, 3 lrg. jet longboats, 6 small river boats, 1 scooter and 2 twin otter flights is how i have made my way ...

Belaga
Dec 4, 2008 (4 photos)

salut tout le monde Nous allons bien. Il a plu comme le deluge hier soir et cette nuit. et encore aujourd,hui. C,est divertissant aussi surtout lorque nous sommes a l'abri. Avec un bon cafe glace, on fait comme tout le monde. On regarde les ...

Mulu Moolah
Feb 15, 2007

... I'm getting used to these fourteen hour bus trips - they are rather easy on my increasingly plastic-seat-toughened behind. Miri was exceptionally unexciting - a burnt out mining city with little to do. However, while searching for a new camera, I stumbled ...

Pain in the proverbial
Jan 7, 2008

... airport I was told someone had been trying to find me to organise hiring a guide together for caving - aarrgghh!  Got to Miri and checked into the Highlands hostel to find the owner informing me that all flights to Bario (my next plan) were full ...

Halloween in Miri!
Nov 1, 2009 (5 photos)

... ;             Miri. Sarawak. Borneo. (Rukouskutsun ontto aani kaikuu kadunkulmista..) Back in Malaysia! Brunein okyilelevat Gyllenburghit jaivat taakse ja parin tunnin dosamatkan jalkeen loysimme ...

Lovely Locals and Merry Miri
May 6, 2008

... he drove us to the bus terminal where we bussed instead of boated our way to Sibu. We are very much enjoying our time in Malaysia. Everything is so easy because the prices are cheap and the locals are so helpful and kind. Borneo is a very lovely place.

Quick update
Jan 22, 2009

We have spent the last few days in Guning Mulu National Park, trekking and caving. Tomorrow we're off to Kota Kinabalu then Kuala Lumpur. We'll be back in Perth on 26th with photos and stories!

Belaga - a no horse town
May 31, 2006 (10 photos)

Belaga is really out in the middle of nowhere, 8 hours by boat from a road where you can get a bus. I was the first foreigner in town for about a month. I stayed at the Belaga Hotel (decent joint, about $8), whose owner was a really nice Chinese lady ...

Fancy
Jun 3, 2006 (3 photos)

Like Sibu the swan city and Kuching the cat city, Miri is the seahorse city. I had been sleeping in tiny rooms with dirty walls and flourescent lights and weird bathroom situations for awhile, so I went to the Marriott in Miri. It was about $50 for an ...

Gunung Mulu National Park
May 25, 2008 (38 photos)

We had spent the night in Miri and woke later than expected the following day.  We had big plans to climb the mountain Gunung Mulu.  Having chosen not to take on Mount Kinabalu we were feeling a bit deflated, everyone around us was raving about ...

KK, Brunei, and maybe Mulu in the future
May 24, 2008

... been.  Though, we did sneak in a movie or two and some bowling along the way.  We finally have gotten to Miri, gateway to Mulu National Park, despite non-running buses, border crossings, and a detour via two Polish people who offered us a ride.& ...

A nightmare in Miri!
Oct 27, 2009

... with 20kg in 32C heat but it was a pretty stroll along the river through the forest.  It was the first time in Malaysia that we had seen true poverty, some of the huts on the way were little more than a four bamboo poles with some straw out on ...

Back in Borneo
Dec 4, 2009

... followed by exit from Brunei, entry back into Malaysia, then exit Malaysia and another entry into Brunei and a final entry into Malaysia. I had not appreciated before this trip that there were 2 bits to Brunei.  The other passengers got off after ...

Miri, Sarawak
Oct 15, 2007

Our first port of call on the Malysian side of Borneo and with a tight schedule driven by the female of the team, it was little more than a pit-stop as our tires squeeled and we took of towards Brunei, and the childhood memories of the afor mentioned lady ...

Proud to be an American!
Feb 17, 2006

I was having one of those I-haven't-slept-properly-in-too-long dreams when it happened. "Good morning, indecipherable" "Good morning! indecipherable" It was the giggly voice entering my left ear, this I knew, what I couldnt understand was why. ...

Planning ahead ...... a tough day
Jul 9, 2008

... fly home from and whether we would stop off in Europe somewhere. 2..decided that Kota Kinabalu would be our last stop on Borneo Malaysia 3.. on 14th July fly from Kota Kinabalu to KL and stay overnight near hotel 4..on 15th fly to VIENTIANE in LAOS and ...

Miri to Kuching
Jul 16, 2009

... companies loading loads of timber onto boats. There were thousands of trees all just lying on the bank waiting to be collected. Malaysia has a real problem with deforestation at the moment and this was the first example that i had seen of it. The trip got ...

Onto Belaga
Oct 26, 2009 (7 photos)

We got up early the next day as a local guy had told us last night that we needed at get a tourist permit to head further upriver to Belaga. Apparently you get this for free from the Kapit Resident Office.  There is no road and air access to or from ...

On the war- A Simplistic Side
Feb 19, 2006

... . The translation runs as follows: "The US is fighting with Iraq because it wants something from them. They don't fight Malaysia because Malaysia has nothing to offer it." His monologue switched to first person, taking both hands from the wheel for ...

Bintulu
Mar 29, 2007 (27 photos)

... . Shipping stuff back is always a hassle. Sometimes we have to use shipping companies like DHL, which is very expensive. Here in Malaysia we can use the post office. But for some reason we can only ship by air out of Bintulu. The freight charge for ...

Belaga -> Batu Niah
Dec 5, 2008 (16 photos)

Salut tout le monde Nous allons bien. Nous sommes partie ce matin en 4x4 dans un beau chemin de terre battue dans la jungle. 2:30 plus tard, nous avons rejoint la route et rouler un autre 40 min. La jungle et bien des montagnes denude, il y a de la ...

The caves must be Niah, I could smell the bat poo
Apr 3, 2009 (11 photos)

... heat and the long walk, but we eventually made it back and reversed the journey that we had taken in the morning. Back in Miri we had dinner and packed our bags for the next day. The following morning we went to the airport and boarded our flight to ...