Pictures at Matang Wildlife Sanctuary

Matang wildlife sanctuary is an interesting place to visit as it educate the public about wildlife animal that are being protected.

Here is some of the pictures that I have taken during the trip.

The park ranger will feed the animals in its enclosure with suitable foods and vitamins. Some of this animal are even given task on how to extract food from its container.

An old parrot in its cage.Porcupine at the porcupine enclosure.

Macaranga species.
Students learning on the park management and wildlife.
Binturong or bear cat on its enclosure.

Matang Wildlife Sanctuary

Matang Wildlife Sanctuary is a sanctuary and a rehabilitation center for animal that have been confiscated from the public. The confiscated animal are actually in the protected and totally protected list under the Sarawak Government.

This Sanctuary is to rehabilitate the confiscated animal so that it can be release back into the jungle. The good thing of this center is that most of the big cage are build under the tree canopy thus it has minimum impact on the environment when it was build.

Please be inform that Matang Wildlife is not a zoo but a wildlife santuary thus do not expect all kinds of animal are hosted here.

The entrance to the Matang Wildlife santuary.


The Matang Wildlife sanctuary office. Matang Wildlife sanctuary will undergo face lift and some maintenance. Thus, if you visit this sanctuary but end of next year it will be different compared to the picture below.
The bird cage build under the tree canopy.
A deer in its pan.

The orang utan in its play pan. The park ranger call him Aman.


Another picture of Aman, the orang utan.


Aman is over looking the whole area. I guess he is interested with the female orang utan at the next pan. I will post more pictures of the animal from Matang Wildlife Santuary

Pictures Taken at Kubah National Park (part 2)

Kubah National Park

You can't take anything except pictures, you can't leave anything except foot prints.


Diploma in Environmental Tourism Management having a good time.

The signboard to the summit trail and frog pond.


The entrance to the National Park.

The forest floor, dead Shorea sp leaves
Selunsor putih.

Kubah National Park: An Educational Field Trip (Part 1)

Kubah National Park is situated in Matang, Sarawak. It is about 45 minutes by car to this wonderful nature from Kuching City. A road was build a long time ago to the top of Gunung Serapi before Kubah has been gazetted as National Park. For visitors, you can choose :-

1. To go up to Gunung Serapi
2. Kubah National Park
3. Matang family park

It will takes a few hours walking to go up to the top of Gunung Serapi which the RTM transmitter are situated. The scenery is lovely with the nice cool air.

Matang Family Park

Matang family park is managed by Sarawak Economic Development Corporation (SEDC) and it is a picnic spot with clear cold mountain stream water. Mount Serapi is actually a watershed area which have provided clear water for the communities around Kuching. Borneo Mineral water a company situated at Matang get its the mineral water from here to be bottle. It a usual picnic spot for familly. Matang Family park also provide BBQ pit for their visitors.

Kubah National Park

We conducted educational field trip for the students taking Diploma In Environmental Tourism Management. The students needs to understand what the importance of National park, its functions and roles and what can it be an attraction to the local and foreign tourist.

A view of the tip of mount Serapi from 4^th Miles Kuching Serian road.

The Kubah N.P which have facilities for tourist to stay and enjoy the scenery and experience Tropical rainforest. I would like to proposed for those kids who are being brought up in the urban and with sceneries of concrete forest. It might be an interesting experience for the kids and also for the family as a get away weekend escapade. The facilities included hostel, chalets, BBQ pit. Activities can consisted of hiking, picnic at waterfall and enjoy the scenery. The park also have frog pond especially if you are interested to know the type of frogs in the tropical rainforest and it has also a small natural garden of pitcher plant (Nepenthes sp.)

Over looking the hostel from the road side

The N.P head quarters.

The road that lead up to the top of Mount Serapi.

Sematan : A view from the sea

The southern part of Borneo or Sarawak have not many beaches to go to. Samatan is one of the few beaches that has lovely crystal clear water and nice sandy beach. Sematan is a small town situated about 2 hours drive from Kuching city. To get to Samatan you will have to go through Bau Town and Lundu. It has a small wet market that sell fresh produce from the sea. Usually you can get snapper, jew fish, crab, prawn and more.

Moreover as a photographer, this is a nice place for retreat and capture those moment through you camera lens.

A view of the Samatan's Jetty from the boat.

The small Samatan town from the sea. A rather unfamiliar sight for most of the people.
The view of Palm Beach Resort from the sea. You can view the Palm Beach resort facilities from my previous post.
I will take some more pictures when I am there again.

Kite flying in Sarawak (Main layang-layang)

Kite flying is a dying activity especially for the younger generations (Generation- I). Gen-I or Generation Internet which have been called especially for those who are born in this IT savvy world. The younger generation now is more on computer game, play station and internet comparing to those days back when kite flying was an activities with friends and cousins.

I still love kite flying and I was given an eagle kite by my cousin last year. Which up to this day, I have not fly it yet. I was thinking of flying the kite last weekend by unfortunately the weather was hazy as shown on the pictures below. What trigger me on this activity? Well, it is because of the Bintulu Kite Flying festival which is an international event.

The eagle kite which have not being flown yet.

The hazy weather, humid and hot tend to make everyone staying at home. The older generation will relate the red sun to the burning of forested land for agriculture or shifting agriculture.


Will have to find some suitable time to fly the kite and polish my kite flying skill.

Bau: A transformation from an old Gold rush town

Bau Town, as i remember during my younger days is picnic at the 'Tasik Biru'. Bau has it interesting history as a gold producing town. The quarry is actually situated at the 'Tasik Biru' as the name 'tasik' in Malay means lake and 'Biru' in Malay mean blue. As the name suggested, the quarry now is flooded with water.

A few years back some private company have dried up the lake and try to quarry it gold. I guess it was not economically to quarry it thus now it is flooded with water. Nice and deep. How deep? just think of looking at a lorry at the bottom as big as 20 cm length.

Where is Bau? It is situated 45 minutes from Kuching City. It is the stronghold of the Bidayuh people. However, the community is consisted of Bidayuh, Chinese (Hakka mostly), Iban, Malay.

The modern part of the town.

Just in the town you will find some old shop house with it window as the pictures below.



The play ground next to the lake.

Rambungan: A small village by the sea

Rambungan situated about 1 hour from Kuching City which go through Matang Wildlife Center.
It have a potential as a tourism destination especially it is situated by the sea side and a nice scenery over looking the river mouth. The jetty is about 300 meter into the river mouth and it is a spot for fishing.

I took this picture on the way to Rambungan just to show how the condition of the haze caused by open burning.


A view of the mangrove where it is the nursery for marine life. Without this beautiful mangrove forest we will not have fish, prawn or crab.


The 300 meter long jetty into the river mouth. The sea water is crystal clear. Some anglers casting their line. What do they catch? Travelly, snapper, 'Kembung', stingray and more.


The mangrove forest.


The Rambungan ferry, ferrying cars and lorries across the Rambungan river.

Took this picture by the ferry point. The kid is having a good time fishing.

landscape: A patch to relax at the garden

After a hard day work or traveling. Home is always a place to recuperate, thus constructing a landscape with the ideas of BBQ, relaxation, good company, and minimum maintainance of the plant generated what you see in the pictures below.

The focal point of the landscape, still under construction.


The river rock to beautify the landscape and functions as walk way and area for BBQ.

The pearl grass planted as a green patch for the garden. Next will be the huge river rock and edge plant. The pearl grass still growing.

Still along way to go for a beautiful green patch to relax. What missing in the garden? garden chair, water focal point, palm or bamboo plant, nice lighting. Any suggestion????