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Kuching Slideshow
Kuching
Travel Blogs from Kuching, Malaysia
We're in Borneo!!
Wooooo we're in Borneo! still in Malaysia, in a city called Kuching (haha!) the original plan was to travel south through indonesian borneo then head down to bali on a ferry, but there have been unforseen difficultis in getting the visa at the land border ...
Cool for Cats
... I was technically on an internal flight Sarawak treats itself almost as a completely different country from every other Malaysia state (including boardering Sabah), meaning that I had to get another visa on arrival. Fortunately this was just a ...
King Louie
... I had thought, but part of Malaysia - a country made up of 13 states and 3 federal territories. The 3 territories are Peninsula Malaysia, Sarawak and Sabah, with Sarawak & Sabah making up Malaysia Borneo. Geography lesson over - here's what we got up ...
Monkey World!
In our last blog entry I mentioned that Sabah is considered the nature state, whilst Sarawak has more of the culture but we must have been lucky because we have seen so much nature and so many unique wild animals to Borneo in Sarawak. We had ...
Semenggoh Orangutan Centre
I wouldn't' say the ONLY reason we came here, but possible the main!! Semenggoh is an organisation that attempts to re-habilitate Orangutans and set them out in to the surrounding forests to try to fend for themselves. We head down there for the ...
BONUS ENTRY!! Various video clips on our travels
We thought we would upload some of the video clips that we have made along the way. We hope you find them ...
Humans V Monkeys (no match!) Bako National Park
Isn't it always the way. We have no responsibilities - nothing. All we have to do is get from one place to another and make sure we arrive at booked hotels on time. Jeez hard work huh? Clearly too hard for us. After "the only gays in the village" took ...
Gawai longhouse visit, and Bako National Park
... our friend Tero. This guy is a stalker, I swear. Not really, but we have been bumping into him since peninsular Malaysia. We agreed to meet up for some beers that evening. Which we did, over a few darts games, and eventually some ...
Thieving Monkeys With Mosquito Bites
... camping in Bako National Park. We took our first public bus (no chickens or sacks of rice) approximately one hour out of Kuching and then climbed onto a boat with two British kids and a lawyer from San Francisco, the first American we've run across ...
....Is Shit
... around a shopping centre and bought some bits then went back to the room. I have come to the conclusion that on the whole Malaysia sucks balls. I can truely only say Melaka is a really nice place, Langkawi was ok but I've been to plenty of beach resorts ...
Arriving in Borneo
... and every gate has a security check instead of one central check point. The flight was 90 minutes into Kuching and suddenly we were back into Malaysia - this time on the island of Borneo shared with Indonesia instead of the peninsula shared with ...
Jungle tour to Longhouse, and wildlife.
Hi all, Back from all my jungle tours with my 1st Tourist.. we went to visit a longhouse where 16 families live under 1 roof on the edge of the river, in the rainforest. 2 Native Iban guides took us in a "longboat" to a waterfall and cooked traditional ...
Kuching, Cat City
... to the Sarawak Cultural Village, which has a bunch of longhouses and dwellings to show what the houses of the different people in Malaysia look like inside. I ran into the German and English couples that I met at Bako, plus the Australian who was at Bako ...
Dikke pif
... au parc national de Bako. On l'atteint après une traversée de 20 minutes en bateau précédée d'une heure de bus de Kuching. Bako recèle quasiment la totalité des variétés végétales présentes sur l'île de Bornéo, avec plus de 25 types de ...
The bigger the Flange..... Matang wildlife centre
Having looked forward to our trip to Borneo so much, we decided in advance - no lounging around in bed till lunchtime - lets really make the most of our time here! So we set out at 9 am to get breakfast and then explore the city. Our first stop is ...
BORNEO!
As soon as we flew into Borneo we knew we'd like it. After being ready to leave mainland Malaysia, it was what we expected and much more... Actually we almost thought we wouldn't be able to leave again. After getting off the plane and getting to ...
Moving On
... kindly inform them we are leaving that second and settle into our new dorm. For those currently searching 'accomodation' and 'Kuching' I hope this reaches you. Awesome place. Big dorm rooms, clean bathrooms and a cracking bunch of young ...
Bako National Park
... only be accessed by boat and we again packed a bag for one night, leaving most of our luggage at the Borneo Adventures office in Kuching. The journey by boat only takes around half an hour, but when we arrived the tide was out, so we had a little walk ...
Kuching & birthdays
Bijna een maand later ben ik in de gelegenheid om weer eens van me te laten horen! Kuching (kat) is een charmant stadje in het zuiden van Borneo. Ik zit aan de keukentafel te kletsen over politiek met de poolse Simon en een man uit Indonesie als ...
Kuching, Orangutans and Bako
... and the cheaper hostel beds get booked up well in advance. We still decided to go for a day trip as its only an hour out of Kuching. Again the bus there was only 2RM but the entrance fee is more at 10RM. You then have to get a boat to the park ...
My apartment and the surrounding area
Finally got around to taking some shots of my condo. It's in what they call a serviced residence ... 2 bedrooms/2 baths,open kitchen/dining area and livingroom. Swimming pool,steam room & gym. (However I don't know WHY they need a steam room here!!) ...
The home of proboscis monkeys and orangutans
We originally planned to come to Kuching as a starting point for our travels north to Sabah, we found a really nice hostel called Tracks, very homely atmosphere and decided to stay for a few days. We started to look into getting to Sabah only to discover ...
Can't stay away from the place
Back again, we have stayed here much longer than planned but there was a local swimming pool which was nice to go to and we visited the Orangutan sanctuary which was amazing, we got really close to them, from little babies to the big daddy, Richie. We ...
My jewels for a rainbow cookie!!!!
... out fast and quick. I was sprawled along a spotless porch of the tourist office, a renovated colonial courthouse in downtown Kuching, finishing Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, cool, innocent breeze pacing the turn of each page, no ...
Hostels, Boats and $$$$
... a fake plant, which was looking real until we noticed it was potted in newspaper, it would seem we are not natural botanists. Kuching is pleasant but looks incomplete with all the building going on. We can eat very well with the locals at ...
Monkeys and Meat Eating Plants
After today I think I have officially hopped a ride on every crappy third world city bus ever built. Today's hooptie was some Chinese built piece of yellow colored junk. The exhaust leaking up through the floorboards added such a nice ...
BACKGROUND INFO.
Hi All, Still here in the Concrecte Jungle but wanted to give some background info. The photo on the front page of me surrounded by savages was taken at a farewell ceremony given to me at the "Hash Jungle Run" prior to one of my departures. The ...
Goodbye to Borneo
... new pair. I had my prescription with me and 24 hours I picked up the glasses at a cost of 9 pounds. If you are coming to Malaysia and need readinf glasses this is a good place to get them. Not far out of Kuching is a sanctuary for orang utans who ...
The Longhouse Experience
Collected today at 7.45 for an hour car ride to The Annah Rais Longhouse. This is a traditional way for Malaysian people to live. It consists of many many houses all joined together and sharing a bamboo walkway that connects most of the village. The ...
Back to Kuching again!
So as Kuching is the main jumping off point we did have to return post Bako and spent the previous night hammering the Tigers (beer not the animals). 7am my good lady raises me and after my 3 hours kip I'm in shit state. And hungover. ...