Saturday, September 08, 2007

Borneo Tour

Part 3

Miri

After spending more than one week in north Borneo, now we headed back to north Sarawak, Miri city......not much to do here as well......managed to pay a visit to Miri's crocodile farm and mini zoo......situated far away from the city......lots of crocodiles ranging from babies to adults generations......varies kind of snakes, porccupines, monkeys and etc(pics below)......also took a short city tour and Curtin University local campus......visited oil well no.1 'Grand Old Lady'(pic on the right).....located on top of Canada Hill.....the first oil well in Malaysia which represents the history of petroleum.....night scenery on top of the hill was quite amazing.....after few days in the city, we moved on to Bintulu town......but before that, we stopped by at Batu Niah town for one of the famous national park in Sarawak......



Niah National Park
The park was gazetted as National Historic Monument....The main attractions in this national park are the caves......Painted Cave(pics above and on the right).....the famous cave paintings on the wall fenced-off burial site and the place where 'death-ship' were found but has been transfered to the museum......a fantastic scene can be viewed from the cave.....

Trader's Cave(pic on the left).....an extended rock overhang.....where birds nest and quano traders conduct their business here.....

Great Cave(pic on the right)......one of the most spectacular cave entrance in the world leading to an even biggger chamber within......archaeological site can be seen from cave mouth......when we were inside the chamber......definitely can heard somekind of sounds.....besides the birds and bats.......something dropping on the floor.......hahaha.....that's birds and bats' shits or we shall called them 'quano'.......hence the floor fully covered with quano.......slippery, smelly and of course dirty......but it was all right cause we were in the darkness.......merely using torchlight to view the chamber.......ignored those quano.....

Bintulu

This town is relative small......we managed to arrive in the evening from Niah national park.....tired....had our dinner and straight back to the hotel for one night....on the next morning decided to go to Similajau national park situated away from the town.....initially we lost our way.....ended up somewhere in Similajau rural industrial area....fortunately we found the right way to the route of national park after that cause such a small signboard nowhere in the middle of the road.....

Similajau National Park

This national park offers natural beauty of beaches.......with golden sandy and rocky beaches facing the South China Sea(pic on the left).... and varies kind of flora......the park was once said that can encounter crocodiles, horseshoe crabs and different types of fishes.....but I don't think so.....nowadays the park is not as good as past time because no more maintenance on jungle trails.....fallen trees and broken branches block the trails.....no more snails and horseshoe crabs on the shore.....merely few hermitcrabs.....the sea has no fish or other marinelife......crocodiles do not exist anymore although 'Beware of Crocodile' signboard still exists cause the staff said that now merely left some baby crocodiles in the river far away in the jungle.....we tried to go to Turtle beach and Golden beach where we might encounter turtles and whole beach in yellow colors just like gold.....however too many fallen trees blocked our way.....ended up somewhere in the seashore.....very disappointed.....I dare to say that only few of us in the park......so quiet like an abandoned forest.....somehow the beaches are still in good conditions with tiny golden sand......

Sibu

Return to this small town again for my favourite local dishes.....crabs and pork leg.....I brought the others to Hong Fu restaurant for this popular dishes....cheap and yummy! yummy!.....no one else and no where else other than this restaurant in this town offers such a low price for those dishes.....we managed to eat 2kg of crabs.....on the next day....visited the market for local food.....then we headed back to Kuching city after had our breakfast.....

Photographer : Johnny, Peter, Jui, Clement and Gary

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