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The Melanau and the Sago Palm That Built Their Coast
Sarawak's Melanau communities built an entire coastal economy around the sago palm — and the Kaul festival still marks the turning of their fishing season.
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Kapit: The Frontier Town Where the Rejang Gets Wild
Beyond Sibu, the Rejang River narrows and quickens toward Kapit — a frontier trading town that's still the gateway to Sarawak's deep interior.
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The Melanau and the Sago Palm That Built Their Coast20 Jun 2026
Rainforest World Music Festival: World Music Meets the Jungle16 Jun 2026
Sarawak Cultural Village: A Living Museum at the Foot of Santubong11 Jun 2026
Fairy Cave and Wind Cave: Bau's Underground Green Light7 Jun 2026
The Legend of Mount Santubong2 Jun 2026
Kuching Waterfront and the Darul Hana Bridge29 May 2026Selamat datai — welcome to the Land of the Hornbills.
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Miri's Grand Old Lady: Where Malaysia's Oil Industry Began
Sibu and the Rejang: Life on Malaysia's Longest River
Kolo Mee: Sarawak's Everyday Bowl of Noodles
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Rainforest World Music Festival: World Music Meets the Jungle
Held every year at the Sarawak Cultural Village, the Rainforest World Music Festival brings indigenous and international musicians together on stages ringed by rainforest.
Culture
Sarawak Cultural Village: A Living Museum at the Foot of Santubong
Seven traditional houses, one for each of Sarawak's major ethnic groups, recreated at the base of Mount Santubong — with daily dance performances and craft demonstrations.
Nature
Fairy Cave and Wind Cave: Bau's Underground Green Light
A short drive from Kuching, the limestone hills around the old gold-mining town of Bau hide two very different caves — one glowing green with jungle light, the other a cool tunnel of natural air.
Travel
The Legend of Mount Santubong
Sarawak folklore says Mount Santubong was once a beautiful princess, turned to stone after a rivalry with another mountain over a suitor — and the peak still watches over Kuching's coast.
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Kuching Waterfront and the Darul Hana Bridge
A riverside promenade lined with colonial-era buildings on one bank, and Kuching's modern skyline lighting up the other — connected by the golden Darul Hana pedestrian bridge.
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Annah Rais: A Bidayuh Longhouse an Hour from Kuching
Bamboo suspension bridges, natural hot springs and one of Sarawak's most accessible traditional longhouses — Annah Rais is Bidayuh country, close enough for a half-day trip.
Travel
Miri's Grand Old Lady: Where Malaysia's Oil Industry Began
Malaysia's first oil well still stands on Canada Hill in Miri — a rusting timber derrick nicknamed the Grand Old Lady, and the reason the whole town exists.
Travel
Sibu and the Rejang: Life on Malaysia's Longest River
Sibu grew rich on timber and the Rejang River that runs through it — Malaysia's longest waterway, and still the main road for upriver longhouse communities.
Food
Kolo Mee: Sarawak's Everyday Bowl of Noodles
Springy egg noodles, a slick of seasoned lard, char siu and minced pork — kolo mee is the dish Sarawakians eat more than any other, and it's nothing like KL's version.
Culture
Inside an Iban Longhouse: Community, Ritual and Pua Kumbu
An Iban longhouse can hold dozens of families under one roof. At the heart of its culture is pua kumbu — a ceremonial ikat cloth woven by ritual, not just by hand.
Nature
Semenggoh: Where Kuching's Orangutans Come Home for Breakfast
A short drive from Kuching, Semenggoh Wildlife Centre rehabilitates orphaned and injured orangutans back into the forest — and feeding time is the closest most visitors will get to these apes in the wild.
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