Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

Came into Kuching on Sunday, February 20th, in the afternoon. Could from the plane see that this is a nice city, lots of space, nice wide streets, organised it looked like from above, and the same it does from the ground.
Grabbed the usual Taxi from the airport to the hostel, Three house B&B,  runned and owned by Bindi from Sweden who met me in the door as I arrived. I choose this hostel because it is top ranked at hostelworld, it with good reason. Nice, clean, quite, nice staff, which is at the time Bindi. The dorm is a bit warm at night since there isn’t any AC, but in total fine, and the price is just 15 ringit (30 NOK) pr night in the dorm. Almost free, and that even include breakfast, coffee, Wi-Fi, water, awesome!

Have had some good days in Kuching, a couple of them just relaxing and just had a walk true town, people watching and had a look out for something to shop, but not found anything that I need, or want, even if they have some nice stuff here. Visited a museum, eaten at the food stalls for some local cuisine. Kuching is actually a very nice city, the best I have seen in Malaysia, clean, well organised, lots of green areas and open spaces, an amazing waterfront to the river, I really like this town.

Had also a nice half day trip out to see the Orang Utan’s together with Heidi (from Malaysia), who was very good company for the trip, would probably not don it without her since I saw the Orang Utan last year in Sabah. We saw a lot of Orang Utans, and it would even if we had not seen any I know I would enjoyed the day. 

Cooking class, had to attend one cooking class here too, when I found one. It was good, but not fantastic. Made some very good curry chicken, but I know how to make curry from Thailand, same same different. Talking about food, have had most of my meal alone here, but had the luck of getting the company of Valvenera from Spain for dinner one night, nice meal and good company. Always better to have someone to share the meal with, as dining alone is what I think that can be the boring part of traveling alone. Was ears dropping at some Norwegians at a table next to me one night, did not feel for talking to them, and unfortunately they had nothing interesting to say. *hehe

Thursday as it is  today,  have I spent in Bako national park. A short trip, and unfortunately we had rain a lot of the time. But, we got to see a lot of Proboscis monkeys, which was my biggest hope to got to see. Great. Saw also 3 green viper snakes, one small and one big monitor lizard, bearded pigs and a lot of the “scumbag” long tail macaque monkeys, so the trip out there was good, even if the weather could have been better.  Weather, the rain this morning was so hard that it could not possible get any stronger, but it did, was totally insane, but it slowed down after some time.

Kuching, a big success!
Next stop, Singapore……….