Examples The Tourism Icons of Sarawak? 

MULU NATIONAL SARAWAK

BAKO NATIONAL PARK

HEART OF BORNEO ( BARIO / BAKELALAN TRAILS )

ORANG UTAN SANCTUARY

PANDAW RIVER CRUISE PANDAW

HEADHUNTERS'S TRAIL

COMING SOON EVENT!!!

FOR MORE INFORMATION :
http://www.mot.sarawak.gov.my/

Sarawak Arts & Craft

SARAKRAF PAVILION : ARTS & CRAFT HERITAGE CENTER

In Sarakraf Pavilion, we promote authentic Sarawak Heritage in the heart of Kuching Set in a historic building hand-built during the Brooke Era about 120 years ago, Sarakraf Pavilion brings to you an visiting experience that is rich in history and reflects the fascinating sentiment of the time. The Sarakraf Arts and Craft Heritage Center features craft lessons, preserves and sells arts and crafts that could not be seen elsewhere.  Absolute Tribal Restaurant, one of the unique features of Sarakraf Pavilion, presents a unique dining experience in the courtyard serving authentic Native cuisine, Chinese and local dishes and a huge selection of Thai and fusion cuisine. The accommodations and homestay facility with activities and historical attachment of the premises will make you feel that you have travel back in time and take a refuge to a spiritually enchanting holiday.

For more information : 

http://www.sarakraf.com.my/cr_intro.php

Sarawak handicrafts come in varied texture..shapes..and form owning to the rich tapestry of culture within Sarawak.

May it be weaving or printed fabrics..wood craving..bead works..rattan basket..rattan mat or ceramic.all these crafts have its own design.unique to each ethnic group.

Sarawak arts and crafts are uniquely design based on age-old fables. They are inspired by the beauty and bounty of Sarawak.our homeland.

Sarawak is renowned for its rich diversity of traditional handicraft products. These are work of fine art and crafts by the multi-racial community of Sarawak.

For more Information :

http://www.sarawak-vacation-destinations.com/sarawak-handicraft.html#.UcDAgvkyZOn

Shopping

Jalan Satok Sunday Market (Pasar Sunday Jalan Satok)

Location

Jalan Satok Sunday Market or Pasar Sunday Jalan Satok is one of the many famous attractions in Kuching, Sarawak, in East Malaysia. As the name says it all, the Sunday Market is located at the junction of Jalan Satok and Jalan Palm, not far from the downtown of Kuching, opposite to the Miramar Cinema.

For more information :

http://sarawak.attractionsinmalaysia.com/Jalan-Satok-Sunday-Market.php

The Spring Shopping Mall

Address: 24 Jalan Simpang Tiga, 93300 Kuching, Malaysia

Contact: 0822 38111

Looking for a shopping experience with a combination of lifestyle and fashion? Then The Spring is definitely one place you don’t want to miss. The modernized outer appearance of the mall tells a lot about what the mall can offer. It aims to give you a higher standard of shopping experience that you very much deserve and thus, this is one of the best places in which you can challenge both your fashion and your taste buds taste.

Tun Jugah Shopping Complex

Address: 18, Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman, 93100, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia

Being a premier shopping complex, the Tun Jugah Shopping Complex stands firm in the heart of the city, aiming to provide the customers’ in meeting their shopping needs when they stands firm with their very own motto. It is also a convenient shopping complex which is easy to be accessed especially when your offices are situated near to the mall. There are also various tourist attractions such as the Kuching Waterfront which visitors can visit before or after visiting the mall.

Riverside Shopping Centre

Address: Jalan Tunku Abdul Rahman, P.O. Box 2928, Kuching, Sarawak

Contact: 082-247-777

Riverside Shopping Centre is a good place for you to explore if you intend to enjoy your leisure time in a carefree way without much disturbances. In the mall, you will find all the basic shopping needs you may need to explore in filling up your shopping list; in the same time, entertainment facilities such as the bowling alley and the cinema can also help you in allowing yourself some leisure time after a good whole day of shopping for goods.

Bintang Megamall

Address: Bintang MegaMall,Lot 1657, Block 9,M.C.L.D., Jalan Miri-Pujut,98000 Miri, Sarawak.

Contact: 085 430 887

Located in the business district, the Bintang Megamall not only aims to serve the business personnel working around the area, it also serves to provide a unique shopping experience to everyone and anyone who visit the mall. The mall is also located in a strategic location in which one can easily reach the mall through various public transportations such as the bus or the taxi. You can even take great picture outside the mall due to its amazing plot structure

Crowne Square

Address: Jalan Datuk Abang Abdul Rahim Kuching, Sarawak

If you are a person who emphasizes heavily on the dining experience alongside your shopping experience, the Crowne Square is one good place to get you started in Sarawak. Besides of the many food outlets, the mall also provides you with various fashion outlets which you can spend your own sweet time exploring various items such as the handbags, cosmetics, shoes, and a lot more all under one roof.

Melanau Tallhouse

The Melanau people make up 5.8% of Sarawak 's population, mostly living in the central coastal region. The Malanaus used to live close to sea and as a result were exposed to many pirate attacks, hence they built sturdy houses some 40ft above ground. Sago is the staple diet of these people, unlike other natives who lived on rice. Originally grown wild, the sago palm was later cultivated by the Melanaus. The process of making sago flour can be seen at the Melanau tallhouse at the cultural centre. Visitors may also savour some of the sago delights that are produced there.

For more Information : 

http://www.journeymalaysia.com/MCUL_melanau.htm

Bidayuh Longhouse

Alfred Russel Wallace describes the land or hill dayak houses in the Malay Archipelago which he had the privilege to document the people and their culture in 1850's as' The Dyak houses are all raised on posts, and are often two or three hundred feet long and forty or fifty wide. The floor is always formed of strips split from large Bamboos, so that each may be nearly flat and about three inches wide, and these are firmly tied down with rattan to the joists beneath.

For more information:

http://www.journeymalaysia.com/MCUL_bidayuh.htm

The Orang Ulu / Kayan

The Orang Ulu ethnic groups can be located in the state of Sarawak in such areas like Belaga, Bintulu, Miri, Baram, Bario, Lawas, Trusan and Limbang. It was believed that in Kuching alone, the Orang Ulu population numbered up to about one thousand – the community’s urban migration being mostly due to better employment, education and business opportunities available in Sarawak’s capital cities1. The term Orang Ulu literally translates as “people of the upper river”.

For more information : http://donoe.wordpress.com/kayan/history-of-kayan/

Iban Longhouse

The Iban longhouse sits on stilts and normally accommodates the entire village. Unlike the land dayaks, the Ibans or Sea Dayaks position their villages on the banks of accessible waterways. The Ibans are great adventurers and take long sojourns across lands but prefer using the waterways to move about.

The longhouse is inhabited seldom more than 15 or 20years. There are various reasons as to why an Iban community would move. The new site would quite often be in the same tributary or in the same river, within a few miles from the old one perhaps because the good timber and planks are removed from the old longhouse and towed along the river to the new site. As Ibans practice shift cultivation, moving often results from looking for fertile land to till after the existing land has been exhausted. The same area is normally cultivated not more than 4 times at intervals of several years. Other reasons would be from enemy attacks sometimes causing burning of the longhouse, or an epidemic that hit the village or if the villagers have been hit with a string of bad luck or evil omens.

for more information : 

http://www.journeymalaysia.com/MCUL_iban.htm

Iban History

The Iban trace their origins to the Kapuas Lake region of Kalimantan. With a growing population, creating pressures on limited amounts of productive land, the Iban fought members of other tribes aggressively, practicing headhunting and slavery. Enslavement of captives contributed to the necessity to move into new areas. By the middle of the nineteenth century, they were well established in the First and Second Divisions, and a few had pioneered the vast Rejang River valley. Reacting to the establishment of the Brooke Raj in Sarawak in 1841, thousands of Iban migrated to the middle and upper regions of the Rejang, and by the last quarter of the century had entered all remaining divisions. The most dramatic changes in the past three decades have been abandonment of longhouses and permanent settlement in Sarawak’s towns and cities. Iban have lived near other ethnic groups with whom they have interacted. The most important of these societies have been the Malays, Chinese, Kayan and, during the Brooke Raj and the period of British colonialism, Europeans. The dynamic relations between Iban and these societies have produced profound changes in Iban society and culture.

For more Information:

http://donoe.wordpress.com/iban/iban-history/

The Penan

Introduction

The Penan are included in the politically coined term Orang Ulu. The Orang Ulu is a complex cluster which includes about 27 indigenous minority groups in Sarawak (Ding Seling and Langub, 1989, p19). The term Orang Ulu literally translates as “people of the upper river”. The Penan are a gentle people with a highly egalitarian society with little gender division amongst them. Whilst tribes like the Kayan and Kenyah have long settled, the Penan are divided into two groups. One group continues to find solace in their nomadic way of life. However an increasing number of Penan are shifting to semi-nomadism or even to a settled existence. Many live within or at the edges of the jungle and take advantage of the jungle as their source of food, shelter and domestic materials.

For more information :

http://www.pustaka-sarawak.com/Pustaka-Sarawak/Sarawakiana/thepenan/Main_Penan_Settlements.html

Sarawak Cultural Village - Malaysia

Rainforest Festival – Santubong

It's no wonder that the annual Rainforest Festival is held at the Sarawak Cultural Village . It's the perfect setting. Mount Santubong rising in the background, casts a cool shadow over the land below. Waves lapping the beach nearby, mangrove forests hugging the coastline and dolphins lopping the waves, gleefully playing in the shallow waters. The environment spells tranquillity. This is where artists come to for inspiration, to get to know or reacquaint with the beauty and bounty of nature.

for more information :

http://www.journeymalaysia.com/MCUL_sarawakculturalvillage.htm

MUSEUM OF SARAWAK

MUZIUM ARKEOLOGI NIAH

Muzium Arkeologi Niah is located near the archaeological site of the Gua Niah in Miri. 

This museum shows the artifacts and prehistoric culture in the area.

The tourist had the opportunity to see the way of life of the ancient people who once lived in caves thousands of years ago.

The tourist can visit this museum from Tuesday to Sunday,its open from 9 am to 6 pm. The entry is for free.

DEWAN TUN ABDUL RAZAK

Dewan Tun Abdul Razak is one of the Sarawak museum gallery. The name was taken based on our second prime minister.

 This museum is a two-storey building and once was used as a legislative assembly from 1973 to 1982, the museum turned into an exhibition gallery and officially opened in 1983.

The ground floor of the building was used to display the photographs and paintings of the historical events that occurred in Sarawak. It also has a museum store that sells a variety of merchandise ranging from traditional art items, shirts, books and so on.

While at level one, mostly located of the exhibits of prehistoric items such as colored vases, brass goods, furniture China, longhouses and others to let the tourist see the items. Other than that, most of the archaeological come from Sarawak is also display here.

MUZIUM ISLAM

Muzium Islam was opened by Yang Amat Berhormat Datuk Patinggi Tan Sri (Dr.) Haji Abdul Taib Mahmud, the chief minister of Sarawak on May 22, 1992. Actually this is the James Brooke Malay College and then taken over and modified its status into museum.

 In 1930, the building was known as Madrasah Melayu Sarawak. This building is used exclusively to train more teachers in high-level Malay education.

The aim of the museum is to encourage more people to play a more active role in the development of the Malay community itself. The students at the time was well versed in the use of English but still lack qualified teachers.

The main objective of setting up this museum is to present to the people in this country and visitors the uniqueness of Islamic civilization in a society Sarawak. In other words, with this setting, it is hoped that people will better appreciate and understand the contributions of Islam to human civilization.

MUZIUM SEJARAH CINA

Muzium Sejarah Cina was officially opened by the minister of culture, youth and sports, Hon Alfred Yap Chin Loi, on October 23 1993. The building has historical features and was built in 1912.it has been used as a court by Chinese society from 1912 to 1921.

 The purpose of the museum is to act as a source of information about the history of various amazing Chinese race. 

The role of the most challenging Chinese museum is to educate the generation nowadays to appreciate the struggles and values ​​developed by earlier pioneers.

The visitors have the opportunity to learn more about the origins of each ethnic Chinese who use the various dialects. Besides, they can find out in detail the traditional skills and arts and culture as well as the development that has been achieved during this period. The museum is located on the banks Sungai Kuching and is one one place tourist attractions.

PLACES OF INTEREST

NATURE AND ADVENTURE

a)  Bako National Parks

This park of primary forest is about 37 Km from Kuching. Visitors here can see various types of flora and wildlife unique to this part of the world long tailed macaque, monitor lizards, wild boars and proboscis monkeys are just a few of the animals which can be found in their natural habitat here. A well-marked trail system takes visitors through various vegetation types in the park.

b) Gunung Mulu National Park

The Gunung Mulu Park covers an area of 200 square miles of primary alluvial, peat swamp mixed dipterocarp, limestone and mountain forests. It contains some of the most fascinating caves in the world among them the Deer Cave, Clearwater Cave, Wind Cave Wonder Cave and Sarawak Chamber. The picturesque limestone pinnacles make beautiful photographs but are not very accessible, being on the summit of 1,600m high limestone hill. It can be reached by half a day climbing from Melinou Gorge.

c)   Lambir Hills National Park

This national park boasts a number of waterfalls and bathing pools that attract weekend picnicker. A climb up Bukit Lambir makes an invigorating challenge. The park contains some of the richest tropical rain forest in Sarawak.

d)  Niah National Park

Established in 1974, the Niah National Park encompasses 3,102 hectares of limestone and forest. The park can only be reached through a succession of flight, road journey and boat ride. The journey is a good way of seeing rural Sarawak.

The Niah Cave at the park is one of the major attractions in this part of the world. Evidence exists of Homo sapiens who lived in these caves More than 40,000 years ago, with their unique culture and beliefs. Artefacts such as stone, bone and iron tools were discovered at this site and primitive drawings can still be seen in certain parts of the caves. The world's best bird's nests, a culinary delight, is still being harvested from the ceiling of the caves by men climbing up bamboo poles.

e) Similajau National Park

Take a 20 minute drive along the coastal road from Bintulu town and enter the Similajau National Park, once a remote and unknown place is now transformed into a tourist attraction in this energy town. Covering an area of More than 7,000 hectares, the park offers you one of the most beautiful and unspoiled golden beaches in the country and home to over 850 species of birds and 24 varieties of mammals. For overnighters, basic facilities such as chalets and hostels are available. A forest department's information centre is there too to assist visitors.