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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Places to go across the Land of the Hornbills.
Beyond Sibu, the Rejang River narrows and quickens toward Kapit — a frontier trading town that's still the gateway to Sarawak's deep interior.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Reachable only by a short flight or days of jungle trekking, the Kelabit Highlands hold some of Sarawak's most untouched rainforest — and its famously fragrant rice.
Giant cat statues guard Kuching's roundabouts and a whole museum is devoted to them — the story behind Sarawak's feline-obsessed capital.