Thursday, May 28, 2015

Bako National Park - Kuching


The national park is well known for the Proboscis monkey and the iconic sea stack. We saw one proboscis monkey  just as we entered into the park but he was eating right at the top of the tree and my iPhone camera did not have a good zooming function to capture the picture, except its back. We hiked up to the top of the mountain (my leg muscles were screaming the whole time as they have yet to recover from our strenuous climb of the Pinnacles).  At the end of the trail, we came across a beautiful and idyllic beach area to rest up before boarding the boat to take us to the sea stack. There were many rock formations and each resembles to something or an animal (some really need good imagination to see the resemblance). 

We had lunch at a restaurant near the park that is well known for its marinated jelly fish but unfortunately, it is not the right season. We did see some fishermen fishing for jelly fish and they can fetch some good dollars. The jelly fish usually are abundant right after the monsoon season. We order a dish called fish head noodles and it tasted really good. I also tried their famous three layer tea (palm sugar on bottom, milk in the middle and tea on top) and liked. 

The orchard garden is massive but due to the wrong timing, not too many were flowering this time of the year. 

We will have a very late dinner tonight and meeting two guys whom we have not seen since our McGill days. One of them is flying back from KL to meet us and he can't be back to Kuching till 9:30 pm. There will be so much to catch up!!


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