What is that big, square, yellow building? You can find lots of such buildings in Sarikei, as you drive along the village road. These are actually ‘house nests’ for harvesting bird’s nest. Swiftlets are raised and bred in these house-like structures that in one glance may look like a prison. Traditionally, bird’s nest harvesting used… Continue Reading
Category Archives: Places
Sarikei Bridge
Kuching city is divided into North and South by the Sarawak River with two different Local Councils, Sarikei being a rather small town is also divided into two parts separated by the Nyelong River. One is the actual town where all the markets, government offices, shops etc are, and the other part known as the… Continue Reading
Low Cost Terminal (LCCT)’s Food Court
When Airasia first moved to LCCT, us poor Airasia travellers had not much of a choice for food before flight as compared to the days of Burger King, KFC, McD and more in KLIA. All there is in LCCT is McD, Coffee Bean, some lousy Asian tiny foodcourt, and that was it. But that is… Continue Reading
5 star food at El Sanctuary
I had promised to write just about the food at El Sanctuary Alor Gajah because the food was so good, it deserves a special mention. Our first taste of the food there was for dinner on the first day of our arrival. Some other guests there had wanted a bbq dinner, so we had to… Continue Reading