Kuching Travel Forum

Hi

We are from K.Lumpur and will visit Kuching 4d/3n for the first time in end Dec. Need some advise:-

1) Since the it is a short trip. Which place we cannot miss to go because we thinking to choose the best to visit:)

2 Thingking to hire a van and driver because 8 person in this trip. Any good contact to recommend?

3)We will stay at Somerset Gateway Kuching. How far from Airport? Any good place to visit food must eat nearby?

4) Any good recommend restaurant/hawker on local food and seafood to go? We likes food....

Thanks for your advise first ok.

Hi!

I just answer part of your question, hopefully other will answer the rest.

4d3n trip should be enough to cover Kuching and its surrounding. Apart frm the sights within the city, you could also make day trip to Bako National Park and 1/2 day trip to Sarawak Cultural Village (a must visit for first timers) or Semengoh Orang Utan rehabilation centre.

Somerset is within the city area itself, abt 20mins drive frm the airport. You can go to the waterfront area for meals. Do try mee kolok & laksa sarawak while in the city.

-m-

Driving in Kuching is pretty convenient..van rental sorry not sure maybe u can contact Inter Borneo -> tanny_lee83@hotmail.com they are my local agent when I go there. Somerset Gateway is about 15mins from airport so no wories :) They have SO MANY good places to eat there just hit any stores nearby,try the butter prawn! And please dont forget to visit the Sarawak Cultural Village it's near Damai Beach/santubong area about 35mins from town,be there by 11am then have lunch and around 2pm they have the culture show-it's hilarious!

The Cutural Village is a must. The Hotel front office staff can arrange for transpot (a van).

Thanks for all the advise..it help a lot:)

Hi you can call o"marn transportation resgitered with Tourism Board Sarawak
(lpkp/id/ks/10237(3)(75174) contact Encik Jamali 60198184252 or 60138405888
He is dealing with Car/Van rental,Tour package,optional tour,full day or half day.
-Serikin,orang utan wildlife centre,jong crocodile farm.
-Matang wildlife Centre,Anah Long house,pottery centre.
-Sarawak culture village,Cat muzium,Sarawak muzium.
-Bako National Par.
I hope this will help and you can visit my blog http://uncleawangcapture.blogspot.com

hi, with 8 of u on tis trip better to get chaufered van rental from azhan of suria getaway traveller transportation,. FYI, better contact him soonest possible as year end is a very busy moment for transportation in kuching. i m worry tat u cant get any van during arrival without prior reservation. azhan @ 013 810 2311. all the best

We were in Kuching in mid September for 3D/2N so we had even less time. Anyway, places to see have been recommended by the previous posters.

1) Sarawak Cultural Village. As all have advised, be there early to watch the Cultural Show.
2) The Bako National Park may be an option but we didn't have the time to consider that then.
3) Walking around Kuching city itself is pretty interesting. Open air market, Satok Sunday Market (this starts on Saturday evening itself), the riverside and try locating the 3 different cat monuments along Jalan Padungan. Of course, locating where the recommended street foods/eating oulets were was another challenge by itself.
4) We used Sin Wan Transport Services when we had to get to the Sarawak Cultural Village. They used a new Toyota van to drive us around. They can be contacted at 082-338218/016-8947473/013-5636918.

Do check out my street food and seafood tips. Our trip to Kuching was more of an eating experience as well!

Thanks uncleawang/samput23/rm2co. Happy to get all the replies. Help a lot with the tips n also photos. Keep doing it in future:)

Hi all,

We have came back from Kuching trip. Kuching, nice and clean town. We have been most of the places of interest. Besides that, off course we ate seafood at Topspot food court. Tried Sarawak Laksa, Koh LoK Mee etc. We like the 'bidin' vegetable too, it can find everywhere in restaurant.

Got one question, why we unable to find 'Sarawak Pineaaple' in Kuching? Maybe it just only a name for the pineaple but not actual plant or come from Sarawak?:)

P/s : rm2co, thanks for your recommendation for the transport no. The van is new and good. Mr. Bong is good and polite, we happy a lot with his service/guide when we are there.

Sarawak pineapples are basically pineapples grown in Sarawak. What I think you wanted to get were the special Sarikei ones, which are sweeter and more fragant. We managed to find them at the wet market stalls by the Riverfront. Not many available though. Lots of other locally grown pineapples were also available there.