Finally when Maswings was able to fly us out of Mulu, soon after take off views from plane window revealed us the size of the rainforest... Endless amount of tree tops and few rivers making their way between tree lines, but besides water there were no way to see land. That was point when I realized that it definately would not be nice to get lost in the jungle. When reached the city at the first evening the feeling being back in the civilization where was wifi access, mobile phones were working and there were all kind of facilities available around you, including cozy pubs. I went in for one, called “drunken monkey” and enjoyed a proper pint of Guinness from a tap, life tasted good!
Kuchning is a biggest city and capital of Sarawak part of Borneo, people who I've met during this trip and who have been there had only positive things to say about Kuching, so expectations were rather high. Name Kuching comes from a “cat” which is the reason why cats have become symbol of the city and for its inhabitants they're also symbol of a luck.
Kuching had lot of similarities with George Town, which was surely one reason why I also liked Kuching. It has become during 19th century a British colonny and a important port city because its good location so still many of architechural features were still remainding from that time. Because of being a port city, the waterfront of the city is still the heart of the city at the same time where modern culture combines on historical and traditional heritages.
I was quite lucky that during second evening while I walked along the waterfront, there was a pavilion where one dance club was performing tradutional music and dances. Those shows illustrated original tribe culture in Sarawak and I really was amazed the amount of colors of dancers/artists clothes had and about the fact that every dance had their own meaning. Another thing about Kuching is that it's considered as a food capital of Borneo, which is always good news for me. I've now tasted one of the best pork noodles in here.
But still in the actual city there is not that much things to do, many of things are on surroundings like national parks, long houses etc. and of course rehabilitation center for orangutans. I went there in order to hope to see some orangutans on wild of they might come to the feeding platform on their feeding time, but there is no guarantee of that as they live in wild and supposed to get their food by themselves from nature so the one center offer is ust on supplementary purposes. So there is no guarantee of seeing them and this time it happened that even that I spent two hours for travelling and standing almost two hours in a jungle, only orangutan I saw was the wooden statue at the main gates... Heard from a ranger that previous day there were eight of them at feeding platform (total 27 lives in the area), better luck next time!
Kuching was last stop in Borneo island before heading back to the peninsula of Malaysia, but it really made a good impression for me and Borneo is place where I could come back one day with a bit better timing and gears to discover it better.
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