| Kuching (Sarawak) Malaysisk Borneo - Part 2/3 * d. 6/11-2011 |
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* Kuching *
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| Trip to the Sarawak Cultural Village and Semengoh Orangutan park | ||
| Info about Orangutan | ||
| One species lives only in Borneo (Pongo pygmaeus), and another in Sumatra (Pongo abelii). Both are threatened as their habitats disappear because of deforestation. An adult orangutan weighs between 33 and 82 kg, but large males can reach over 110 kg. | ||
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We started the day with a trip to
Sarawak Cultural Village , which was to show us how different tribes
lived, worked and lived.
The weather was fine with sunshine and
30 degrees.
We were picked up at the hotel by a
chauffeur and a tour guide around 9, after we had eaten a good breakfast
buffet.
Cultural Village was about
30km north of
Kuching , and it took half an hour to get there by car.
In the village the houses was
decorated as they looked in the past for the various tribes - Bidayuh /
Iban / Penan / Orang Ulu / Melanau / Malays / Chinese.
After
we had been around and visiting the various houses, we saw a dance show
with the traditional tribal dance.
Then we ate lunch in a restaurant in the
village. Our guide told us over lunch about a trip later on the day, which went to Semengoh Orangutan sanctuary. If we booked us on it, we could drive there directly, without going back to our hotel first. We said yes, and by 13 o'clock we drove towards Semengoh, which lay 28 km south of Kuching. Here we came indeed very close to the orangutan, but unfortunately everything nearly drowned in heavy rain shortly after we arrived, and it was a rather short pleasure in the park here: ( Later, back in Kuching, the weather was fine again, and we could walk around town, and eat at one of the local restaurants in the evening. |
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Map of the area north of Kuching with our drive marked with green, and Cultural Village with a red ring around it. |
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| Iban longhouse / Artificial swallow nests / Urangutaner in Semengoh |
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Sarawak Cultural village |
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