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Places in Sarawak
All 54 landmarks we've covered, grouped by kind — or filter by kind and division.
Mountains & Highlands03
Miri Division
Gunung Mulu National Park
Razor-edged limestone pinnacles and the world's biggest cave chamber, deep in UNESCO-listed rainforest.
Damai Peninsula
Mount Santubong
The legendary mountain that rises straight out of the South China Sea, ringed by golden beaches.
Miri Division (interior)
Bario & the Kelabit Highlands
A cool mountain plateau of rice paddies, salt springs and megaliths — home of the Kelabit people.
National Parks07
Kuching Division
Bako National Park
Sarawak's oldest national park — famous sea stacks, proboscis monkeys and wild coastal trails.
Lundu
Gunung Gading National Park
Home of the rafflesia — the world's largest flower blooms in this rainforest above Lundu.
Matang, Kuching Division
Kubah National Park
Kuching's rainforest next door — palm-rich jungle, waterfalls and the famous frog pond of Matang.
Miri Division
Lambir Hills National Park
Waterfalls and world-record biodiversity — the most species-rich forest ever studied, minutes from Miri.
Kuching Division
Kuching Wetlands National Park
A saltwater mangrove estuary west of Santubong where Irrawaddy dolphins surface, proboscis monkeys feed at the water's edge and fireflies light the trees after dark.
Betong Division
Maludam National Park
The largest single stretch of intact peat swamp forest left in Borneo, and the stronghold of the red banded langur — a park to understand rather than to trek.
Kuching Division
Santubong National Park
The park on the mountain — jungle and summit trails climbing straight off the Damai coast, an hour from Kuching.
Caves03
Miri Division
Niah National Park
A cave mouth the size of a cathedral, sheltering 40,000 years of human history.
Bau, Kuching Division
Fairy Cave
Climb a hillside near Bau into a cavern glowing green with jungle light.
Bau, Kuching Division
Wind Cave Nature Reserve
A cool river-threaded cave of bats and swiftlets — Fairy Cave's darker, wilder twin near Bau.
Beaches08
Santubong Peninsula
Damai Beach
Golden sand at the foot of Mount Santubong, with Damai's resorts and coral just offshore.
Bintulu Division
Similajau National Park
Golden beaches and rainforest meeting the sea along a wild 30km coastline near Bintulu.
Miri Division
Tusan Beach
Cliff-backed sands famous for the 'Blue Tears' night glow and a horse-head rock arch.
Kuching Division
Trombol Beach
Kuching's hidden shore — a quiet stretch of sand, sea and forest at the end of a peaceful country drive.
Lundu
Pandan & Siar Beach
Lundu's twin escapes — long golden sands and laid-back beach resorts on Sarawak's far west coast.
Sematan
Tanjung Datu National Park
Sarawak's smallest, remotest park — pristine coves and turtle beaches at the state's western tip.
Bintulu
Tanjung Batu Beach
Bintulu's seaside esplanade — casuarina shade, sunset walks and the town's favourite stretch of sand.
Miri Division
Luak Esplanade & Coco Cabana
Miri's sunset strip — a bay, a boardwalk and the city's most reliably photographed evening.
Rivers01
Bridges & Waterfronts05
Kuching
Kuching Waterfront
Sunset over the Sarawak River, the Darul Hana bridge and the old town's riverside promenade.
Satok, Kuching
Datuk Amar Juma'ani Bridge
Kuching's newest icon — Malaysia's only tripod-pylon cable-stayed bridge, glowing over Sungai Bintangor since 2025.
Under construction · expected 2026Kuching — Sarawak River
Sejingkat Bridge
Sarawak's most dramatic crossing yet — a 1.28km cable-stayed giant with twin 94m diamond pylons, opening across the Sarawak River in 2026.
Sibu Division
Sibu Esplanade & the Rejang Waterfront
The promenade along Malaysia's longest river, with the swan statue, the express-boat terminal and the whole working life of the Rejang going past.
Sibu Division
Lanang Bridge
The long span that finally carried the road across the Rejang at Sibu, and the town's most photographed structure after the swans.
Wildlife05
Kuching Division
Semenggoh Nature Reserve
Watch semi-wild orangutans swing in for breakfast at Kuching's beloved nature reserve.
Sri Aman Division
Batang Ai National Park
A lake-and-longhouse wilderness that offers Sarawak's best chance of seeing truly wild orangutans.
Kuching Division
Jong's Crocodile Farm
A long-running crocodile farm and zoo at Siburan, and the standard half-day out of Kuching for anyone travelling with children.
Bintulu Division
Taman Tumbina
Bintulu's hillside zoo and botanical park, with a hornbill aviary, forest walks and a view out over the South China Sea.
Kuching Division
Matang Wildlife Centre
Orangutan rehabilitation, sun bears and hornbills in forest enclosures on the edge of Kubah — the working counterpart to Semenggoh's feeding platform.
Culture & Heritage18
Damai, Santubong Peninsula
Sarawak Cultural Village
Sarawak's living museum — seven traditional houses, one rainforest cove, and the home of the Rainforest World Music Festival.
Kuching
Borneo Cultures Museum
Malaysia's largest museum — five floors of Borneo's story, in a striking golden landmark in central Kuching.
Kuching
Fort Margherita & the Brooke Gallery
The 1879 riverbank fortress of the White Rajahs — now home to the Brooke Gallery's swashbuckling history.
Petra Jaya, Kuching
Kuching Cat Museum
Thousands of feline treasures on a hilltop in the world's 'Cat City' — quirky, charming and unique.
Miri
Canada Hill & the Grand Old Lady
Malaysia's first oil well atop Miri's sunset ridge — where the nation's petroleum story began in 1910.
Kuching Division
The Astana
The 1870 riverside palace built by Charles Brooke for his bride — still the Governor's residence, and still best seen from the water.
Kuching Division
The Square Tower
An 1879 fortified tower on the Waterfront that has been a prison, a fortress, a dance hall and a lookout — and that almost everyone walks straight past.
Kuching Division
The Old Courthouse
The 1874 seat of Brooke justice, its colonnades and belian roof now sheltering cafes, galleries and Kuching's evening crowd.
Kuching Division
Sarawak State Legislative Assembly
The golden nine-sided roof across the river — a modern building shaped from the terendak, the Malay sunhat, and now Kuching's defining silhouette.
Kuching Division
Islamic Heritage Museum
Seven galleries of Islamic art, science and Southeast Asian history in a restored Malay college building — the quiet standout of Kuching's museum precinct.
Sri Aman Division
Fort Alice
The best-preserved of the Brooke outstation forts — a belian-timber stockade of 1864, restored and reopened as a heritage museum.
Sibu Division
Fort Emma
The 1859 Brooke fort at the meeting of the Rejang and the Kanowit, named for the Rajah's sister and still standing over the confluence.
Kuching Division
Indian Mosque (Masjid India)
Sarawak's oldest mosque, built of belian in 1837 and reached down a two-foot alley between shophouses — the most easily missed building in Kuching.
Kuching Division
St Thomas's Cathedral
The oldest Anglican foundation in Borneo, on a green hill above the old town, with a churchyard that reads as a register of early Sarawak.
Sibu Division
Tua Pek Kong Temple & Seven-Storey Pagoda
Sibu's riverfront temple and its seven-storey pagoda — climb it for the best view there is of the Rejang running past the town.
Sibu Division
Lau King Howe Hospital Memorial Museum
Malaysia's only medical museum, in the surviving block of the hospital a Foochow merchant funded for a town that had none.
Bintulu Division
Tamu Bintulu & Pasar Utama
Bintulu's twin markets — jungle produce and river fish under one roof, and the oldest continuously running institution in town.
Kuching Division
Annah Rais Bidayuh Longhouse
A living Bidayuh longhouse of bamboo verandahs and a skull house, ninety minutes from Kuching, with hot springs down the road.
Waterfalls & Hot Springs01
Islands & Diving01
City Parks & Recreation01
Geology & Geopark01
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