Day 242 (Tue 6 Mar) - Kuching
Up and headed off to the Tourist Info office for Sarawak. A bit confusing this as there are seperate tourist offices; a federate one, one for Sarawak and one it seems for Kuching.
En route we found the Bollywood cafe where we had an ace breakfast. The owners were really friendly even going so far as to assert that Sarb looked like a particular Bollywood star.
We went to the Kuching one that was brilliant. Very helpful and informative. Booked for 3 nights at the Bako National Park and 1 night at the Kubah/Matang National Park.
Grabbed a walking tour map of Kuching and set off ( [1], [2], [3], [4] ). We'd covered most of it already as we had been walking around although the areas around the museums was new.
Went to the Sarawak museum. It's natural history exhibits were excellent. The anthropology exhibits were also very good. The museum also housed a small aquarium tucked onto the back of the building.
Walked round the small neat gardens for a while then crossed via the footbridge to the Islamic museum. Not really of great interest here; we reckon that it is mainly for scholars as opposed to the great unwashed. From here we went to the ornate Sikh temple and the colourful mosque nearby.
Walked back via India Street and as we were hungry stopped off at the Bollywood cafe. The friendly woman owner cooked us fresh samosas.
Got back to the hotel where we showered and relaxed. Done a little blogging before heading off for dinner at Patience.
Had some ace pasta and garlic bread with a bottle of vino. A bit extravagent but we've been feeling a trifle under the weather lately.
Packed our gear for an early morning start t'row.
En route we found the Bollywood cafe where we had an ace breakfast. The owners were really friendly even going so far as to assert that Sarb looked like a particular Bollywood star.
We went to the Kuching one that was brilliant. Very helpful and informative. Booked for 3 nights at the Bako National Park and 1 night at the Kubah/Matang National Park.
Grabbed a walking tour map of Kuching and set off ( [1], [2], [3], [4] ). We'd covered most of it already as we had been walking around although the areas around the museums was new.
Went to the Sarawak museum. It's natural history exhibits were excellent. The anthropology exhibits were also very good. The museum also housed a small aquarium tucked onto the back of the building.
Walked round the small neat gardens for a while then crossed via the footbridge to the Islamic museum. Not really of great interest here; we reckon that it is mainly for scholars as opposed to the great unwashed. From here we went to the ornate Sikh temple and the colourful mosque nearby.
Walked back via India Street and as we were hungry stopped off at the Bollywood cafe. The friendly woman owner cooked us fresh samosas.
Got back to the hotel where we showered and relaxed. Done a little blogging before heading off for dinner at Patience.
Had some ace pasta and garlic bread with a bottle of vino. A bit extravagent but we've been feeling a trifle under the weather lately.
Packed our gear for an early morning start t'row.
posted by Jo and Sarb at
3/06/2007 05:17:00 am
2 Comments:
I remember the museum and the lovely dusty exhibits - some interesting variations on body piercing in some of the ethnographic collection if I remember!
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Anonymous, At
3:34 pm
this park sounds wonderful - well done for seeing the rafflesia as they're really rare. Our agent had been to borneo many times and never managed to see one
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3:36 pm
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