Gunung Gading National Park is the place where the world’s largest flower Rafflesia bloom. Located just outside of Lundu town, itself a pictureque town worthy of a side visit, about one and a half hours’ drive from Kuching. Nestled among the magnificent greenery is the park HQ where visitors are to register and given copy [ Read More ]
This tiny National Park is among the most visited nature reserves of Sarawak Only 37 kilometres north of Kuching on the Bako peninsula and just 2,727 hectares in area, its jungle is teeming with wildlife, stunning cliff-enclosed beaches, iconic sea stacks, jungle trails with waterfalls and an intriguing range of vegetation ranging from lowland mangrove [ Read More ]
Mention the words “Sarawak longhouse”, immediately images of the Iban’s traditional abodes of “village under one roof”, usually found in Central Sarawak, springs to mind. This long uninterrupted house with as many “doors” (one for each nuclear family), and with the common corridor running the length of it has been the favoured mode of living [ Read More ]
The Kuching Waterfront is a delightful and serene place to take a walk and unwind after a hectic day of touring the city and its surrounding attractions. This is a sliver of landscaped garden beside the Sarawak River running the whole length of Gambier Street and Main Bazaar, about a kilometre in length. In [ Read More ]
The Semenggoh WC is easily one of most popular attractions for visitors to Kuching. Located only 40 minutes drive due south of the city along Jalan Puncak Borneo, this is the place where the orangutans free-range in habitat that resembles their original homes in the deep interior. Visitors who take public buses and tour [ Read More ]
The Sarawak Museum Often touted as one of the finest of its kind in South East Asia, this museum was built in 1891 by the second White Rajah, Charles Brooke, who commissioned the building along the style of a Normandy town house of that period. Allegedly the famed naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, who himself had [ Read More ]
The Old Quarter of Kuching is generally described as the area bounded by Wayang St until the Main Bazaar then going westward reaching Gambier Street, continuing until it reaches Power Street, Barrack Street and Carpenter Street, enclosing India Street within its confines. Within this enclave are found the oldest buildings and historical sites of the [ Read More ]
Kayaking in the Borneo Highland area is truly a fascinating way to be surrounded and intimate with Mother Nature and an ideal introduction to rural Sarawak. It is also a fun-filled activity for family bonding and corporate team building while paddling and seeing the stunning scenery of massive rocks among pristine rivers and an added [ Read More ]
Hi! Welcome to Sarawak! We’re here to show you all the sights, places, attractions and food of Kuching and how you can best plan your itineraries during your stay here. Whether it’s a one-day pit-stop or one-week sojourn or even more, we’ve pre-packaged them in the itinerary planner, so you need only to choose which [ Read More ]