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Borneo Break: All's Well that Ends Well
Driving up a narrow and steep road up Bukit Telaga Minyak (Oil Well Hill) in Miri would reward one with not just a picturesque view of Miri but up that little hill, one would get to see the Grand Old Lady and visit the Miri Petroleum Science Museum. ...
Borneo Break: Some Memorable Moments
It was in the early evening when we left Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei. The sky was still bright and Mau Wei had driven into a petrol kiosk to fill up the car's tank but unfortunately, Malaysians were allowed to buy petrol only from designated petrol k...
Borneo Break: Visiting Bandar Seri Begawan
We did not make straight back for Miri after lunch. Mau Wei suggested that we go to Bandar Seri Begawan and why not? She was driving the car and controlling the steering. The weather was beautiful and the road to the capital of Brunei was good and th...
Borneo Break: Japanese Food in Brunei!
Seeing the crocodiles in Miri Crocodile Farm cum Mini Zoo was a delightful experience and a safe one too! While in Sarawak, The Borneo Post reported the first croc attack in Sungai Seruai's 200-year history. A 22 year old man, Rudy Sermion Ng, was re...
Borneo Break: At Miri Crocodile Farm
If you are taking a car along the Miri-Kuala Baram coastal road, it will take you about twenty minutes to Miri Crocodile Farm. In Miri, I got to visit a crocodile farm again after a very long break. I had visited one in Bangkok, Thailand many, many y...
Borneo Break: A Chinese Temple in Miri
After the trip to Niah Cave, Amber and I made back to Miri by bus. We had to hire a car to take us to a big food court by the main road where buses to Miri and elsewhere were easily available. It was drizzling when we started our journey but by the t...
Borneo Break: A Magical Moment
At Niah Cave, there is a large chamber just after the Great Cave which would bring delights to many photographers. Shafts of sunlight stream down here at Lubang Padang where there are holes in the cave roof. Timing should be right though. The first ...
Borneo Break: Trading in a Cave
Niah Cave which is located in Gunung Subis, has been gazetted as a National Historic Monument in 1958 and in 1974, some 3,100 hectares of surrounding rainforest and limestone hills were included to form Niah National Park. The park while being one of...
Borneo Break: Walkway to Niah Cave
Hiking up Niah Cave is easy! You just have to walk the wooden pathway! Of course, you have to pay an RM1 fee to take a boat across the river first and if you are lucky like we were, you would have bumped into some locals carrying guano home too!There...
Borneo Break: Niah Cave, Here We Come!
It was evening when we reached Miri. The next day would be the highlight of our trip and we would visit Niah Cave. I had initially wanted to visit the two famous caves in Sarawak, Mulu Cave and Niah Cave but the former was out since the Twin Otter wh...
Borneo Break: Another Glimpse of Bintulu
Our trip from Mukah back to Miri was a delight. Gendil took over the car somewhere in the middle of the journey probably after we had stopped at a house somewhere at a junction to borrow a loo. Then, we were supposed to drive straight back to Miri bu...
Borneo Break: A Quaint Town by the River
One thing nice about travelling with Mau Wei was she was spontanteously adventurous. Both times when we were travelling from Miri to Sibu and on our return journey too, she made a detour to a little unknown town called Tatau. The little town by the r...
Borneo Break: At a Melanau Traditional House
The morning before we left Mukah for Sibu which was a 3 hour ride and 250km away, we had visited Lamin Dana Melanau Cultural Centre. Lamin Dana is a Melanau traditional house, a longhouse too, I suppose and over here in Mukah, one could rent a room t...
Eating out in Mukah
There were a few Chinese restaurants in Mukah. Upon reaching there and while waiting to meet up with Miss Saw, we decided to have lunch at one which served local dishes like Umai, a dish of raw fish and of course, the miring, a tasty vegetable dish p...
Borneo Break : A Traditional Game by the Sea
Mukah incidently was Miss Saw's hometown and she was back to visit her folks when we were there. We had met up with Miss Saw the minute we reached there since she had kindly helped us to book a hotel room. That afternoon, Miss Saw had talem us for a ...
Borneo Break: Moving into Mukah
Mukah was a three and half hour ride from Sibu but the coastal town which serves as the administrative centre of the Mukah District in the Mukah Division of Sarawak seemed so far away. The road which ran through a vast area of oil palm plantations wa...
Borneo Break: Another Culinary Trip in Sibu
Before making our way to Mukah, we had one last culinary trip in Sibu town. If you remember, Miss Saw had on our day of departure met up with us for breakfast. She took us over to a crowded Chinese coffee shop and there we had a taste of the local de...
Borneo Break: Going wild over a Chinese temple
You could say that we went practically wild over a Chinese temple in the suburbs of Sibu. We caught a glimpse of this pretty thing and Mau Wei asked me to take a shot of it with my camera. I tried but then she drove past the temple too fast. So, on o...
Borneo Break: Aniministic Elements of Gawai
Borneo probably sounds exotic to many; but probably too, Borneo puts fear into the heart of some especially when one starts to form in his or her mind pictures of headhunters. There probably are no headhunters in Borneo now but historically,explorers...
Borneo Break: Celebrating Gawai at the Longhouse
Gawai Day or Gawai Dayak is a festival celebrated in Sarawak on 1 June every year. The celebration usually starts on the evening of 31 May with a ceremony called Muai Antu Rua to cast away the spirit of greed. Two children or men each dragging a chap...
Borneo Break: Living in a Longhouse
While traveling in Sarawak, I got to see many longhouses or what the Iban called rumah panjai along the roads. The first longhouse which I saw while on my way to Sibu had me rather excited but then many more followed and the excitement could simply h...
Borneo Break: Dusty Road To Julau
Julau is in the Sarikei District and 66 km away from Sarikei town. Starting our journey from Sibu seemed like it was over a hundred km but then of course, it wasn't a pleasant and easy journey since none of us had been to Julau before and the road le...
Borneo Break: Warm People
Miss Saw met up with us not long after we checked out of our hotel the next day and took us to a Chinese coffee shop for breakfast.Then, before we left Sibu for Julau, we paid Jin Jin and her mother a visit...Meet warm people here...From left: Amber,...
Borneo Break: At Sibu's Night Market
After Sarikei, it was back to Sibu. It must be in the early evening when we returned. Before checking into our hotel, we had went to the night market. It was our second time there. The first time was when Miss Saw, Gendil's friend took both Gendil an...
Borneo Break: Once in Sarikei
I used to know someone in Sarikei, the little town famous for pineapples and pepper but that was years back when I was in campus. From Bintangor, Mau Wei had taken the old road to this little town and she had to drive her car into a boat which would ...
Borneo Break: Not so quiet at Bitangor's waterfront
When we failed to make it to Kapit, Mau Wei had suggested that we paid a visit to Sarikei, the capital of the Sarikei District in Sarikei Division, Sarawak which is located on the Rajang River near where the river empties into the South China Sea. Th...
Borneo Break: Visiting a Gallery
Ah! What a fine hostess Miss Saw was! After taking us for a tour round the reclaimed land of fabulous houses, she had driven Gendil and I to her home where she fed us with some nourishing vegetable juices which she had churned out from a costly Korea...
Borneo Break; Fabulous Houses in Sibu
Some of the land in Sibu are reclaimed land. The Rajang Esplanade for example touted as an ideal place to relax was completed in 1987, using reclaimed land along the river front and is frequently used for cultural performances and public events. I di...
Borneo Break: Trying for Kapit
Charles Anthoni Johnson Brooke, the White Rajah of Sarawak, who succeeded James Brooke as the head of the state of Sarawak was said to have founded Fort Kapit in 1880 as a garrison town to prevent the Iban from migrating up-river and attacking Orang ...
Borneo Break: Tua Pek Kong Temple
If you do not fancy walking around town, mingling with the locals and trying out the local cuisine, there probably would be nothing else to do in Sibu except to visit the Tua Pek Kong Temple. Tua Pek Kong is a Taoist deity of prosperity, a sort of de...
