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Many tourists like to visit Kuching city, fondly known as the Cat city in Sarawak, Malaysia. Some tourists come on their own based on Lonely Planet guide recommendations of where to go, see and experience. What better ways to experience the city than through a local person’s recommendations. 1. Upon checking in at the hotel in the morning, go for a Kuching city tour. If you follow one of those guided tour, the tour will fetch you to the top of Civic Centre Tower for a panoramic view of Kuching city skyline, Sarawak Museum to learn with regards to the past histories and then drive past the gigantic Cat Monument. Many tourists would stop by to take pictures. If you come for the duration of the Chinese New Year, the Cat could be seen wearing a traditionalisti Chinese costume. If you come for the duration of the Ramadhan month where the muslims celebrate Hari Raya, the Cat would be wearing a green Malay costume. You will likewise get a glimpse of Kuching South city council, drive through Chinatown, visit Sarawak’s older Taoist Temple, Catholic church, pass through the Malay village and then visit the old State Mosque with 5 golden domes. 2. Next, you will go to one of those famous Sarawak Pottery Factory. If you visit it in the morning, you may get a chance to see the skilled workers carving the lamp, vase and etc. The tour will then end at Kuching Waterfront where most of the pre-colonial buildings are situated. 3. Next, you will go for souvenir buying goods at Waterfront or along Gambier Road. You may even chance upon a lot of antiques that you like to buy home. 4. In the afternoon, go visit Semenggoh Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre. You may want to check with your guide or the travel agent counter the feeding time of these orang utans so that you may catch them in action. 5. You will then come back to city and have your dinner at Topspot Seafood Restaurant. There are assorted seafood centre for you to choose from. The dishes that you MUST order are stir fried midin, a local jungle fern stir fried with belacan, a type of prawn paste, bamboo clam fried in curry powder and oyster pancake. 6. The next day, you will have the widely known and esteemed Sarawak Laksa for breakfast. You may effortlessly find stalls marketing them at any of the coffee shops in the city. The feed is spicy. If you can not eat spicy food, then you are commended to have Sarawak kolok mee for breakfast. 7. Then you will set off to Sarawak Cultural Village and spend the whole morning there. As it is almost an hour drive from the city, you are commended to take shuttle service to there. You may buy the shuttle service ticket at Grand Margherita Hotel entrance. Otherwise, you may without apparent effort inquire from the hotel receptionist. When you have reached Sarawak Cultural Village, do visit the respective ethnic houses and do not miss the cultural performances. You ought to be back in the city by noon time. 8. You will then have stir fried tomato noodles for lunch. It is a special line of work dish available only in Sarawak. 9. Next, you may want to go for a foot massage by this blind masseur located besides Mc Donald outlet opposite Grand Margherita Hotel. The service is not expensive. 10. Then you head for dinner at any of the fine city restaurants in Kuching. Some of my commended restaurants are Jambu Air, Magenta and assorted others. After an evening of fine dining, you will head back to hotel to catch a flight home the next day. Most helpful customer reviews 35 of 35 people found the following review helpful. 41 of 48 people found the following review helpful. The big problem with this guide was with the information on Cusco — prices and information were out of date, and we were constantly surprised to find that things the book lists as free cost money, and the costs of tours, trips, and entrance fees were much more than what the book stated. I would go as far as to say that the book was wrong more than 80% of the time. Consequently, we eneded up spending much more money that we had anticipated, and ended up not going to several sites to avoid blowing the budget we set for this trip. An added drawback to this book was, when walking around Cusco with it in hand, having guides and other tourists go out of their way to tell you what a bad guidebook this is. (I wish I was making this up.) I also found that the information on hotels in Lima was not very good. The hotel I stayed at was excellent and not even listed. However, the hotel next door, which was not nearly as nice, was listed and given high marks. I would have been upset if I relied on the book and stayed at the place next door. I believe these problems are all because this guide has not been updated. And until it is, I wouldn’t recommend relying on it to plan a vacation. 23 of 26 people found the following review helpful. I particularly liked the section on health issues. This guidebook did a better job with altitude sickness, and some of the jungle diseases than any of the other guidebooks I have read. To my chagrim, I read that the two most commonly used medications for altitude sickness were contraindicated for me. I found out that I would have to plan well before my trip so that I could get all of the the proper immunizations for the jungle part of our trip. Based on the book, I decided to get a travel medicine consult–a very good move that probably saved me a lot of potential problems. The sections on social customs and conveniences were helpful. You wouldn’t buy a guidebook just because it has a section explaining Peruvain toilets and toilet paper, but things like this are really really useful if you are traveling with kids. The climate charts for different sections of Peru only occupy a page or two, but are actually quite helpful in planning vacation dates. I would have liked for the guide to include more information on the beautiful and remote Manu National Park. I had to buy another book and go on the Internet to get much information on that area. |
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Practical advice, cultural perspectives, good maps
