Where is sarawak river

See downtown Kuching from a whole new perspective, the life of the locals as they cross the river to go home or gather along the 1-km Kuching Waterfront. Sarawak River Cruise Be it is a leisurely sunset Sarawak river cruise or a corporate function, a cruise along the historical Sarawak River on board the MV Equitorial promises to be a memorable experience.

The river cruise departs daily from the Waterfront. Address : Kuching Waterfront, Kuching, Sarawak. Photo Caption: Enjoying the drinks and the view.

You can sample local food as well as familiar staples. Lunch and dinner onboard the Orient Pandaw featured local dishes typical to Sarawak as well as Western staples. The selection of four salads at lunch, for example, often featured local ingredients. During our daily excursions, our guide Louis would point out those ingredients from fiddlehead ferns to pineapple and wild mushrooms growing in the wild or in small farms.

Other local staples included pineapple, durian fruit, and pandan-leaf flavored cake. On two excursions, we sampled delicious local rice wine. Overall, dining room highlights included a delicious laksa, a coconut-milk-based spicy soup; nasi goring, or fried rice; and curried vegetables and prawns.

On the day of the beach picnic, everyone raved about the chicken, rice, and vegetables cooked in the traditional Iban bamboo pot method -- inside hollowed out sections of bamboo. Western favorites were also always available, from fish-and-chips to BLTs and steak and eggs.

Each evening at happy hour, a daily fruity drink special was offered up in the Sun Deck bar along with mini pizzas, prawn crackers, fried fish bites, and other snacks. Photo Caption: A salad aboard Pandaw Cruises. You'll get a chance to get your feet wet. The mini Orient Pandaw , a smaller excursion boat that trailed the main boat for the entire cruise, was used to shuttle passengers to shore and on various river excursions. One afternoon was spent on the mini Pandaw shooting some small-scale rapids on a remote tributary.

Another day, it transported us to a picnic lunch set up on an isolated spot along the river, which we couldn't have reached any other way. While most excursions were not physically challenging beyond walking in temperatures that reached the high 80s, there was one vigorous jungle trek that most passengers enjoyed. Only a few older folks with canes stayed back on the main boat. We grabbed some hot skewer kebabs for lunch from a traditional street stall, before catching one of the little riverboat taxis back to Kuching Waterfront.

That afternoon we booked a date with nature aboard an amazing Santubong Sunset Cruise…. A wildlife cruise in Borneo. The wide Santubong river is calm, the meandering mangrove swamps awesome, and the scenery magical.

I listened to the mythical legend of Mount Santubong as we slid by the mysterious mountain on our journey towards the estuary.

The highlight of my Borneo adventure was a day out in Bako National Park. Hearing that we wanted to explore beyond the tourists spots in Kuching, local girls Lucy and Jennifer drove us to rural Sarawak — to Bau fresh food market, on to explore the eerie Wind Caves, to a secret beach by the Kanan River, to the sacred Fairy Cave, and finally to Tasik Biru Blue Lake. June 16, JPEG.

In Sarawak, rivers stem from rivers stemming from even larger rivers. The snake-like nature and sharp turns of these waterways resemble a painting when viewed from space, but the causes of these patterns are rooted in nature. Here you can see the Rajang River forking at several sharp T-shaped junctions, heading at times 90 degrees from its previous path, and then turning west and resuming its path toward the sea.

The faults cause blocks of land to drop downward, which strongly influences the path that water will take. Not all of the rivers pictured here take such sharp turns.