The Sarawak Museum is close to downtown Kuching, a short stroll from Merdaka Square. It’s housed in a historic buiding from 1891 and covers a number of different topics. The one that made the trip worth it for me was an excellent exhibit about the traditional longhouses so typical for the inhabitants of Borneo. On the […]
When I first researched visiting Borneo, I looked at Kota Kinabalu in Sabah and Kuching, Sarawak as the base for my exploration – and ended up going to Sabah first, because it seemed to offer more and to be easier to visit – you can read about it here. While Kuching is not as popular
On my first visit to Borneo, I visited the Orang Utan Rehabilitation Center in Sepilok and the rain forest in Danum Valley, skipping Mount Kinabalu – and I felt bad about it! It’s the highest peak between the Himalayas and New Guinea at 4,095m, Malaysia’s first UNESCO World Heritage site (since 2000) and even gave
Since I was a little boy, Borneo had a special ring for me – the ring of adventure and nature untouched. Stories of headhunters, reports of untouched rainforest and Orang Utans in the wild, it all added up to a world so far from what I grew up in. And once you travel to Bangkok,