Monday, May 15, 2006

Kuching Trip

Me and my sister have bring our parent travel to Kuching last few days for a holiday. This time we target on nature and wild life tour, so we decided to go for those animals and national park during the visit.

First day arrived at Kuching, it was raining. So, we can only walk around the shop in town and also the shopping center there. We book our tour service with a tour agency in Holiday Inn Hotel. We will go to Semenggoh Orang Utan, Crocodile Farm and Bidayuh Long House in private tour. At night, we go to Top Spot Seafood Center for dinner. The seafood in Kuching really cheap compare with West Malaysia. We have fish, prawn, scallop, lobster... delicious...

Second day, we depart 8am from hotel and go to the Semenggoh Orang Utan Center. Upon arrival, the person in change told us several orang utan is coming out and swing around nearby. We are so lucky to see one of it come so close to get food from the center's staff. In fact, the orang utan do not appear at the feeding area.

After that, we depart to crocodile farm. This crocodile farm have a mini zoo so we can see others animal as well from there. As stated in broucher, there should be some hornbills can be found, but as told by the tour agency, due to hornbills is protected animals, the Forestry of Sarawak instruct all hornbills cannot kept in cage but have to let them go back to forest. So, we dont' see any in the cage during this visit. After watching the crocodile show, we leave and have our lunch nearby the crocodile farm. After lunch, we depart to Bidayuh Long House to visit the real long house resident. We also bring to the Beruk, a place for them to have meeting and store the cutted head.

Third day, we plan to go Bako National park on our own in stead of follow tours. Tour services is really expensive that will cost me RM250. We take taxi to the Bako Village and then hired a boat to go into the National Park. This national park is only accessable by boat. It cost me RM40 per trip. Since our main purpose is to go for the famous Sea Stack, we need to pay RM30 more to go there by boat. It was very nice whether that we are allow to board to the sea stack for photograph. The Sea Stack is really beautiful and i take a lot photo there. We need to walk for about 2 hours to back to the park headquater after that. Anyway, we only spent RM100 on boat and RM80 for taxi for this trip, which i think is cheaper compare to take a tour service.

After back from Bako national park, we straights away travel to Damai beach. We will stay one night at Damai Beach to relax. We walk around and go swiming at the beach and just relax for the rest of the day. We have a wonderful rest time after the jungle walk at Bako and then we feel relaxing at the beach. We check-out on the next day and back to town for city tour.

I have meet up a friend and she bring us for city walk and also to try some local snack. After buying souvenior and having our dinner, she sent us to airport as well. We leaving Kuching around 10pm and it was just relaxing and nice trip for us.