Depart your hotel for an hour and a half scenic countryside drive to Selepin, an Iban Longhouse with about 95 families. You will be greeted by colourful dancers in their traditional costume with exotic traditional music from the gongs and drums.
The chief of the longhouses will invite you to tour the longhouse and see their communal living quarters. Take a walk to their farm of rice fields, fruit orchard and jungle where they may get jungle vegetables for food or just observe how the Iban attend to their daily chores.
After Lunch, proceed to the Grand Old Lady at Canada Hill where the first oil rig in Malaysia was found and it is also the site to view Miri town and beyond. Continue the trip toward the coastal road to see Miri as a town thriving on the petroleum industry.
Visit a Taoist Temple, regarded as the largest in South East Asia. Drop by the market place to see the locals selling jungle produce, wild fruits, handicraft and many other things unique to Sarawak. Transfer back to your hotel . (Lunch) |
Depart your hotel for a 2 hours drive passing through oil palm plantations, secondary forest, picturesque countryside and Batu Niah - a small inland town.
Proceed to the park headuqarters, then by boat to cross the Niah River, followed by a 45 minutes walk on a raised plank-walk (4km long) which snakes through a lush rainforest to reach the Niah Cave entrance.
Explore this famous cave system, archaeological sites and primitive hematite paintings on the walls. Observe the bewildering and dangerous maneuvers of bird-nest collectors climbing fimsy scaffoldings and wooden poles to reach the dark crevasses of the caves to collect the nest during the harvesting season.
After lunch, return to Miri and transfer back to your hotel by 1700 hours. |
