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Miri Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Miri, Malaysia
marriott hotel
10.1.2013 auf der suche nach dem meer, auf das wir auch noch einen blick aus der nähe wefen wollten, mussten wir eine wanderung von einer stunde auf uns nehmen. wir wussten, dass das hotel marriott am strand liegt und somit unser ziel war. unterwegs ...
A Hidden Gem
... stand back - either you cop out and get a taxi or you can flag down any approaching vehicle on the road outside, heading back to Miri, or towards Niah and Bintulu. We managed to squeeze into a 4x4, with a family who lived in Miri, and were only too happy ...
Overland and Out of Country
... sure that we were on the correct bus that was to take us to the last ferry out of Brunei that day and back to Malaysia on Labuan - a small island off the coast of Sabah but not governed by Sabah - rather it was governed by the central goverment in Kuala ...
canada hill
... tempel. gleich nebenan ist der fisch- und gemüsemarkt, hier machten wir einen rundgang durch die halle. da sich miri am südchinesischen meer befindet, liegt es nahe, dass wir zum nachtessen ein fischlokal aufsuchten (nicht am miririver). hier ...
Spelunking
Once we got to Miri we spent a day visiting Naih Caves, took some funky pictures there. That night we had the most amazing seafood meal--fresh fish, crab, veggies, noodles, beverages--for only a couple of bucks! ...
Motel Moaning in Miri
... the city. Our phone wouldn't work in Brunei, so we had been unable to call and make a reservation until we'd returned to Malaysia. Unfortunately, our phone wouldn't work - we later discovered that it had been locked by the phone company for some reason ...
Miri
the next day we had to say goodbye and fly to Miri. we'd origionally to travel overland through Brunei (quick geography bit for Lorna and those from Mrs Lloyds geography class: Malaysian Borneo is split into 2 states, Sabah and Sarawak, to get from Sabah ...
Christmas TIme
We flew back to Miri just in time for Christmas Eve, we had hoped for some glorious beach weather so that we could at least make some sand angels but alas it wasn't to be. Christmas day and the rain came by the bucket, there wasn't that much to see in the ...
Looking for the birds nests ( for soups)
It took 7 hours to get to Miri by bus. Although I was hot and tired the guest house was just great. It was one of the best that I stayed at and I would recommend it to other travellers. Not far was Niah National Park where there are several caves. As ...
Noodle Madness
... 'chst hört es auf zu regnen und wir machen eine kleine Tour durch den Nationalpark. Blöd nur, dass ich meine Wanderschuhe in Miri vergessen habe. Die Urlaubs-Demenz setzt ein. Aber der Christoph hat auch seine Flipflops vergessen. So muss ich also baren ...
Lets off Road!
Another mission ahead, rather than bus it all the way to Kuching (next interesting/affordable place on the road - 16 hrs away). We decided to try to get a ride in a 4x4 down a logging road to a small village on the Batang Rejang River called Belaga.From ...
4x4 Adventures in the Jungle
A four hour boat ride in a longboat from Kapit to the sleepy hamlet of Belaga. This is the only boat of the day to arrive from the outside world. There are three ways to get out: boat back to Kapit, 4x4 to the main road, or boat and 4x4 via somewhere ...
Miri Miri In Sarawak, Not The Fairest of Them All
... the end of The Talented Mr. Ripley and Alan stressed about his laptop having a virus and the time passed somehow. When we arrived in Miri we hadn't a clue where we'd been dropped and there were no signs that it was a or was near a local bus station so ...
Da wo alles anfing
... einem Handmetalldetektor umfasste, ging es in der Twin Otter nach Lawas. Da wir kein Ticket für den Weiterflug nach Miri hatten, mussten wir entgegen der allgemeinen Flugverkehrsordnung vor Frauen und Kindern aus dem Flugzeug stürmen und an den ...
die höhlen von niah
7.1.2013 der park erstreckt sich auf einer fläche von 3000 ha rund um den gunung subis. in innern dieses knapp 400 m hohen berges liegt ein riesiges höhlensystem. 1974 wurden die höhlen und deren umgebung zum nationalpark erklärt. um ...
Seafood Delights
... we'll be spending five days trekking in the jungle on what's known as the headhunters' trail. So no contact for a bit. Miri's a nice enough city, with the usual friendly Malaysian types. We've even been recognised from the paper by a friendly food stall ...
Going Guano at the Niah Caves
7am start and we're off on the 3km walk along the river to the Niah caves in the National Park. A nice breakfast, quick boat crossing and another 3km or so to the caves, along a boardwalk surrounded by beautiful primary tropical rainforest (or "jungle"). ...
Leaving the Kingdom
... . Celsius. Wir packen in nahezu militärischer Geschwindigkeit unsere Sachen, weil wir schon um etwa sieben Uhr unseren Bus nach Miri in Malaysia bekommen müssen. Das schaffen wir auch gut (pünktlich wie die Maurer - 5 Minuten vorher).Die Busfahrt ...
Miri, Sarawak Malaysia
Stayed at the Miri Hotel No. 47, Brooke Road - Tel. 6085421212 Fax. +6085412002. Room for three was approx. 120/n but breakfast incl. was only for 2 pp and the 3 had to pay!!! Still trying to figure that one out. We came here to ...
The Great Niah Caves
... up at 9:00am by our driver in a beaten up Honda. We drove for 1 and half hours to the park chatting to the driver about Malaysia, it people and history, quite a nice guy, pitty his car was falling apart though. Once at the park HQ we signed in and then ...
2 days in Miri
... that we would wait an hour for the bus to arrive. When the bus dropped us off we walked a few hundreds metres until we found a room. Miri is meant to be full of cheap accommodation which appear to be brothels. We didn't see anything of the sort. We had an ...
Beers and hot pants
... on us the entire way to Sarawak, the only time I wasn't shivering was when we had to alight and pass through the Brunei/Malaysia border post. We arrived into our Miri hostel at lunch time and headed straight over to the nearby ...
Back to Miri, where to go next???
... to be until meeting Trish in Kuala Lumpur on the 21st I was stuck with the question - what to do with a week in Malaysia? I started reading about Singapore as well as the beach island of Panag (in the north of Peninsular Malaysia), but for some ...