MOUNT SANTUBONG

MOUNT SANTUBUNG 
   
 Set under the spectacularly steep 810m peak of Gunung Santubong, the Santubong Peninsula is home to Sarawak's finest beach resorts and its famous Cultural Village and only 35 minutes drive from Kuching.

 According to the Encyclopaedia of Iban Studies the original inhabitants of Santubong were the Iban. Si-antu-ubong means 'spirit boat' in the Iban language. Antu is hantu in Malay which means spirit or ghost. Santubong are boat like coffins made from a single hollow log designed to represent the vesell in which a dead person will travel from this world to afterlife. Following another theory, the name Santubong is derived from "san choo bong" in the Hakka Chinese dialect, meaning "wild pig king" or "king of wild pig".

Tumbina Bintulu

TUMBINA BINTULU

 

 Taman Tumbina Bintulu is an integration of a botanical and zoological garden. The name TUMBINA originates from the Malay words TUMbuhan (meaning Plant) and BINAtang (animal). Tumbina was created with a vision to be A Living Heritage Of The Flora & Fauna Of Borneo. The objectives are (i) Recreation, (ii) A Unique Tourism Product, (iii) Education, (iv) Conservation and (v) Research & Development.

FLORA  AND FAUNA

Flora of TumbinaThe plant collection at Tumbina encompasses a wide variety of native and introduced species. Natural vegetations are found everywhere around Tumbina. Areas for different types of plants are created by enhancing and utilizing the natural environment of Tumbina. 








Fauna of TumbinaClasses of animals found at Tumbina are Mammal, Aves, Pisces, Reptiles and Insecta.
The majority are native fauna of Borneo. Introduced animals such as Flamingo, Ostrich and Tiger are mainly for attraction and educational purposes only.

The Miri Crocodile Farm .

MIRI CROCODILE FARM


The Miri Crocodile Farm at Kuala Baram, 24km from Miri, is home to more than 1,000 estuarine crocodiles and false gharials. It also features a snake house and a small zoo. The farm is fully CITES registered.

Bako National Park

BAKO NATIONAL PARK
 

 Bako is one of the smallest national parks in Sarawak. However, it features multiple biomes (including rainforest), abundant wildlife, jungle streams and waterfalls, secluded beaches, and trekking trails. A network of 16 marked walking trails of different lengths allows visitors access. In addition, various beaches are accessible by boat from Kampung Bako or Teluk Assam, as well as a geologically interesting sea stack rock formation. The range of attractions and activities in a compact area have made Bako one of the most popular parks in Sarawak.

FLORA AND FAUNA
 Bako contains almost every type of plant life found in Borneo, with over 25 distinct types of vegetation from seven complete ecosystems: beach vegetation, cliff vegetation, kerangas or heath forest, mangrove forest, mixed dipterocarp forest, padang or grasslands vegetation and peat swamp forest. The unusual plant life includes a variety of carnivorous plants (four species of pitcher plants, sundews, bladderworts) as well as a huge variety of tree and other plant species.

  Bako is also home to a number of lizards and snakes, most of which are harmless. Bako is a fascinating place for bird watching, with over 150 species recorded. Bako's nocturnal creatures include the colugo, pangolin, mousedeer, various species of fruit-eating and insect-eating bats, tarsier, slow loris and palm civet.

Welcome to Sibu

ABOUT SIBU

Garden City to be, this is a quiet town along Rejang River. Sibu is one of the three towns in Malaysia which consists of a predominantly Foochow-Chinese population (Yong Peng in Johor and Sitiawan in Perak are the others). Sibu is not only famous for food (such as Kompia, Kampua and the like), but also boasts of being the hometown of a national patriot called Rosli Dhoby. The town symbol is the Swan.

PAGODA OF TAU PEK KONG ON SIBU TOWN

The Tua Pek Kong Temple  is a must see in Sibu. Its history dates back to 1870. 

WISMA SANYAN SIBU


Wisma Sanyan A fairly comprehensive shopping mall located inside the tallest building in Sibu, Wisma Sanyan. Main tenants here are Ria by Parkson, Giant, KFC, and Pizza Hut.


STAR MEGA MALL

Star Mega Mall The largest mall in Central Region of Sarawak. The anchor tenant is Daesco. Recently soft-opened. SO MY FRIEND'S....... DONT FORGET FOR COMMING....!!!!!!

Bintangor Rojak

 Binktangor Rojak

The main highlight of the dish sold here, the famous Bintangor Rojak (RM 5). I was rather disappointed with the portion as I could get more in my hometown for exactly the amount paid. Frankly speaking, it does not taste any different from any rojak I tasted before. The "magical" ingredient should be the roasted peanut, which I find to be delicious.





 Bintangor Oranges
Besides the green oranges, Bintagor is famous with another delicacy, the Bintangor Rojak. Rojak is a fruit and vegetable salad.

 

The famous stall is stall No. 7: Wong Hung Ping. This place was crowded when we arrived there as it was public holiday and many people from Sibu and nearby Sarikei town travel here just to taste its famous Rojak.

Niah Cave

 Niah Cave
 Before the area was gazetted as a National Park in 1975, access to the caves was difficult. The soggy bog was a trudge. Bird nest Traders and even early archaeologists who discovered the burial site at Niah Cave spent for weeks or months at a time. The traders brought in enough food supply for their long stay and camped out at Trader's Cave. This is the first of the 'chambers


 
 About History

 The cave was believed to be inhabited by the Australo-Melanesian group before being completely replaced by the Austronesians. In the years of the early peoples, during the Ice Age period - Niah cave was probably 200km further inland

Sarikei Pineapple.

SARIKEI PINEAPPLE

Sarikei is known as "fruits basket of Sarawak"and one of the main supplier for vegetables and fruits for Central Region. One of the famous fruits is Sarikei Pineapple. It is for this reason Pineapple Festival was held annually in Sarikei town 

THE AUTO SHOW
The auto show at the Nyelong Esplanade displayed cars and motorbikes that had won prizes in many auto shows with their modifications like hifi and paint job. The motorbikes even brought along their own mascots like SpongeBob and Monster Inc's monster.

 

 SARIKEI PINEAPPLE (PASAR MALAM)

With so much fun and consumer spending to stimulate the economy, it makes you wonder why Sarikei does not have a big night market (pasar malam)

Kaul Festival

 

MUKAH

 MUKAH is one of the eleven administrative divisions in Sarawak, east Malaysia, on the island of Borne.Mukah too contains four administrative districts: Mukah, Dalat, Mato and Daro. The total population is 110,543.^[3] The population is culturally mixed, with mostly Melanau, Malay, Iban, and Chinese predominating.

 THE BEST IN MUKAH

Kaul Festival (Pesta Kaul in Malay) held annually at Kala Dana Beach (Pantai Kala Dana in Malay) at Mukah. In 2012, approximately 70,000 visitors attended the festival.^[5] A park called Kala Dana Recreation Park or Site of Kaul Festival (Tapak Pesta Kaul) was built there and had recently been renovated and is now more modern. It also has an observation tower. This festival attracts many visitors from Sarawak-wide and sometimes even foreign tourists. The chief minister also attends this festival each year. For 2013, the festival will be held on 24–28 April.^[6]

Mulu national park

Gunung Mulu National Park
Gunung Mulu National Park near Miri, Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site that encompasses caves and karst formations in a mountainous equatorial rainforest setting. The park is famous for its caves and the expeditions that have been mounted to explore them and their surrounding rainforest, most notably the Royal Geographical Society Expedition of 1977–1978, which saw over 100 scientists in the field for 15 months.The national park is named after Mount Mulu, the second highest mountain in Sarawak.

D'Cave homestay

 

 

 

 

 

 

D'Cave Homestay, halfway between airport and Park HQ. Offers lunch/dinner. There is no menu, just request what you like to eat and how you like it done. Remember that ingredients availability is limited. Price around RM 12 for rice, meat and vegetable. Bring a torchlight if going there at night. Homemade rice wine, tuak available at times.

 

Mulu caves 

Gunung Mulu National Park, lie the most spectacular caves on earth. Over millennia the flow of water draining from the slopes of G.Mulu towards the sea has cut deep gorges through the Park’s limestone mountains and, within the rock itself, a complex network of vast caves has been formed.