Things to do, places to see pt.2

Photo taken from inside Sampan.

The Sampan trip took about 5 minutes, if that, to cross Sarawak River. And that was an experience! It costs about RM0.50 (which is about NZD0.20), cheap as!!

After we reached the otherside of the river, we headed off to Fort Margherita.



The fort is built in 1879 to guard Kuching’s river approaches from pirates. Named after Charles Brooke’s wife, Ranee Margaret. The Fort is actually a Police Museum nowadays... well, not when I was there anyway. It was nothing but an empty building. The reason they hid all the weapons was because the guards were afraid that I might play around with it and shot myself...

The building has a spiral type stairs and quite steep.



It is a three storey building with large rooms on the first and second floor.



Third floor is a balcony where we can see the whole of Kuching waterfront clearly.





It also houses the famous 'laughing skulls', which many witnesses claim have the ability to emit an eerie laughing noise.


Dare to go inside?

I went in but to much disappointment, I didn't hear any laughing noise... Thou I can be sure that I won't be here blogging if I did hear the laughter. The chances are you will be able to find me at seven and a half mile Kuching Mental Hospital.


All the skulls are packed in this basket. It's really real skull!!

We left the place after 30 minutes. Empty building, although scenery was great upstairs, but there was nothing much to see lah really...

Then we went to our Kuching Civic Centre.



The building was officially opened on 1 August 1988 following the proclamation of Kuching as a city status. Civic Centre tower offers the best all-round views of Kuching and the surrounding area.



When I walked around happily snapping away with my camera, I saw a bizarre event which I believed it only happened in Malaysia... or in Kuching...

Building below is a place called The Sarawak Club providing its members a wide range of sporting facilities which includes squash, tennis, basketball, tennis, badminton, table tennis etc.. and of course swmming pool.



To my delight, I noticed a guy was swimming in the pool! I immediately zoomed in to that guy with my camera lense, like fully close-up zoom to see how the swimmer looks like... as we do (or more so of what he was wearing). Guess what I saw, a man with a very lickable body (slurp), in a pair of tight togs, swimming in a pool, with a pair of flippers...



Why on earth do you need flippers to swim in a pool? Maybe his feet are too small that he needed the flippers to help him moved around in the pool... You can only find this in Kuching! And I'm proud to be Kuchingites!! No I am not a weirdo~

Just going to show different places that I went to when I was in Kuching.

India Street is a pedestrian walkway of variety of colorful textiles, clothing, crockery and other essentials. It is the best place to shop for spices, clothing, textiles, souvenirs etc. Most of the shops now are Chinese operated. I had so much fun price bargaining for clothes and shoes that I bought, from sky-rocketed price bargained down to next to nothing. I went to The Warehouse in Auckland few days ago and just before I paid for those red undies at the counter, I almost asked: Dua Ringgit Boleh? (two dollar can?) I miss Kuching...


India Street

Khatulistiwa Cafe is situated along Sarawak River. I am not sure what sort of beverage and food they served but this building is very unique on its own. I am sure many tourists will choose this place to wine and dine due to its ambience. Once upon a time one of my friend told me that this is the place where gay people gather round and meet, I'm not sure about that as I wasnt' there. Only if I was, Kuching will never be the same again...


Khatulistiwa Cafe

Kuching Old Courthouse is a heritage building near the Kuching waterfront. It was built by Sir Charles Brooke, the second Rajah of Sarawak, in 1883. At the time of its construction, it was intended as government offices and venue for state ceremonies. But the Courthouse is today used as a tourist centre.


Kuching Old Courthouse

The Malaysia-China Friendship Garden, known as Taman Sahabat in Malay was built to commemorate the 30th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Malaysia and China. The RM12 Million Garden is located on Jalan Song in Kuching South and is beatifully designed in the styles of both Malaysia and China.



Although there were so many stunning features in the park but due to lack of lighting, my camera was not able to take clear shots for almost all of the features. I am very stubburn. I will try not to use flash light as much as possible when taking photos because flash light kills the colour of objects and make everything looks white. Hence I only posted this huge Chinese style arch entrance on here.


Nice night for dating in the park. Watch out for Manwolves.

Okay, tired now... More to be reveal in my following entries.

To be continue...