Our first morning we woke up to all this crap around Mystic from all the rains washing this stuff into the river. There seemed to be more crap floating in on the tide than going out....the opposite of what is normal....UGH!!
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Another morning we woke up to this RORO.....roll on, roll off...going upstream about 100 yards off......filled up all our windows......impressive how large these ships are!!
Sarawak Museums.......Ethnology, Art and Natural History
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Chinatown
Parliament
Unique bridge over the Sarawak River
Riverwalk
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Lots of cat statues!!! Kuching means "cat"!!!
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Excellent Chinese food.....dumplings and Wonton soup
Cat Museum
Miss Kitty Kathy:)))
View of the City from the Cat Museum
Fort Margarita
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Views from the fort
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Our ferry across the River
Parliament and the Fort
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Sarawak Laksa......partially eaten:)))
Chinese Museum
Market on India Street
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The tides were ~15'.....coming home at low tide...joy...not!!!!
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View of Mt Santubong from the Sarawak Cultural Village
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A sugar cane press....not sure how it worked...maybe a few parts missing??
Lots of pictures of the traditional homes and longhouses!
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Water pipes!!
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Kathy didn't try.....I did and hit 2 of 3 targets.....lot of hot air still in these lungs:)))
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Some magnificent swords and cases
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Some great dances performed by this group
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Beautiful costumes!!
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Lovely Mt Santubong
The Orangutan Center.....we didn't get to see any......way too many tourists IMHO!!
The feeding platform.....this is the fruiting season so plenty of food throughout the Park for the animals
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A Pitcher plant....eats insects......and the bigger ones maybe mice!!!
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Another type of Pitcher plant......vegetarian!!!
There are many crocodiles in the rivers.....no longer protected as the population has grown too large
The Serian market
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This is Loba.....we had at a Chinese restaurant.....similar to bok choy....excellent!!
Scotch bonnet peppers.....our favorites......have not seen since Mexico!!!
Farmed catfish
There is the chumi, small squid....but fresh, not boiled
Our accommodation at Mongka
There was a young Italian couple also on our tour!
Mongka Bidayuh Longhouse
It's been modernized with a metal roof
And they use concrete for the living spaces
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Fruit nut from a palm oil fruit bunch cluster
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Oil from the yellow fibrous part is used for internal use.....medicines
Oil from the white kernel is used for external use.....soaps, shampoos et al
Pepper Plant
Pepper Corns
Pepper Farm
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The public veranda of the longhouse
Sunset at Mongka
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People gathering at the longhouse
A small dam on the river
Children's dance.....very enthusiastic!!!
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Accompanied by gongs and drums
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Quite a crowd gathered to watch
They wanted us to try but no way!!!!
What a fun time with this group!!!
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Don't believe that angelic face....she had me dancing all night!!!!
And then the rains came the next day
Rubber tree
Cutting the rubber tree to drain the latex
Another pepper farm
They had burned this field the week before and now were planting dry rice
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Just starting to come up
The yield is about half of wet rice....a flooded field
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We had some of the best juicy and sweet pineapples
One of Rives favorite mushrooms
An enthusiastic family planting dry rice..."take our pictures, mister"
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They cooked our lunch in these bamboo logs on an open fire
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Fish
Chicken and tapioca leaves
Lemongrass, chicken and rice
And still more rain
Well.....she's smiling because she is dry for once!!!
The trail for the Orangutan feeding platform
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