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

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.

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.