Let’s start at the airport, where you can see this lovely fern. The curving green silhouette is a nice contrast to the usual right-angled gray bleakness of airport architecture. And so to the Kuching Museums! Our hotel was right next to the museum complex. I like the exterior of the Natural History Museum of Sarawak […]
OK, I mentioned headhunting for the sheer exploitive sensationalism of the word. The people we met in the traditional village were charming, hospitable, gentle peaceful folks, and their English was meticulous. They had some skulls in a basket in the meeting house, but no skulls were newer than 60-70 years, as far as I could […]
This is an interesting view from our hotel; the round domes belong to the Sikh temple (Gurdwara) in front of the old pink city mosque (onion domes). This is a view towards the Sarawak River that run through the city. This is the south side of the river, so it has the Indian and the […]
These two orangutans are in the reserve near Kuching. The reserve started as a place where orphaned orang babies were to be rehabilitated so they could fend for themselves in the forest. (They were orphaned because poachers shot their mothers so they could sell them to people who wanted the babies as pets. The babies […]
It’s hard to know where to begin on our trip to Kuching, in Borneo. Maybe with basic geography; Borneo is a big island east of Singapore, that has several states in it, belonging to three different nations. There’s the Kingdom of Brunei, which used to own Kuching, the Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak, and […]