Day 6: Miri to Kuching (17 photos)

We flew back to Kuching & promptly headed to Holiday Inn Damai.

After a shoft rest we headed out to city. Armed with a simple map, we browse along famouse place for eats, Topspot has lipsmaking fare, but we fear it's a tourist trap & went further down the riverside to seek out Benson, famous for it's simple seafood fare. We order the big juicy Salt Baked Prawns, large lipsmaking Kan Heong Cockles, Fern & Oh Chien with large juicy oyster, total RM50.

Benson ........................... Salt Baked Prawns .................................................. Kam Heong Cockles ......

Pucuk Paku (fern) my Fav ... Oh Chien

After the hearty dinner, we walk it off by exploring Chinatown, most shop was closed quite early & walk all the way back to Holiday Inn Kuching to catch the shuttle van.

It's a better night out town than our 1st day...

Day 7 Kuching: Orang Utan Santuary Park & Sarawak Cultural Village ( 70 photos)

Orang Utan Santuary Park have a strict feeding timezone, 9am -10am, so we set off at 8am.

There were quite numbers of tourist there waiting at the entrance, we took the chance to capture few mommy & babies orang utan having breakfas & we waited for the feeding location, deep in the jungle. The ranger cry & howl like wolk to call out the supposely wild orang utan. However we were dissapointed after 1 hr wait & we were ushered out & sent packing..

Orang Utan Santuary

We managed to return to the hotel & ready for our 2nd sight seeing at Sarawak Cultural Village, which were just 2 corners away from the hotel.Having browse around the quiet area, we enter each bumi house & few house actively welcome their guest & were treated to some short dance & traditional music. We finally walk back to the hotel on fook , takes 1/2 hour to reach.

Sarawak Cultural Village .. Totums

Pepper Plant

After a short break, we loaded our gear & try our hand fishing beside the hotel front. We near a small stream flowing cold water out to the warm sea... This place is loaded with small fish. jason managed to catch a fairly med sized catfish, while i caught small zeebra & small catfish, all baited with white squid. Jason tried to bait a large red garupa, but managed to turn away at the very last wave.

After few hours fishing at the beach, the sun set low & we headed back to soak from the warm tub.

This is our last nite in Sarawak, we are flying back KL tomorrow....yippeee...