Multifaceted Kuching
Old Chasms + New Visions
Kuching City Center:
The layback characteristic and easy-going charm of the City Center of Kuching, Sarawak is still very much alive despite of its ambitious developmental push for modernization in recent years, an outcome largely due to its urban planning strategy that is culturally inclusive and progressive, that keeps its multifaceted traditions and development outlooks in delicate balance, that welcomes modernization with indigenous pride and confidence.
As can be seen in some of the recent urban redevelopments like the on-going Kuching River Waterfront project, the new Borneo Cultural Museum, the Mural Paintings on the walls of traditional shop houses etc., great sensitivity has been exercised to carefully recreate a new City Center that embraces traditions and modernity with cultural, environmental and technological appropriateness.
Old World Chasm
Inclusive Modernity
Sarawak Bako Natural Park
Established in 1957, Bako National Park is the oldest Nature Reserve in Sarawak. It is renowned for its unique rare monkey spicy with long nose; termed the Proboscis Monkey. The park continues to retain its raw raggedness and untamed forest feel, with minimum man-made infrastructure and amenity. This authentic natural state is its most valuable asset.
The best location to enjoy a full view of the legendary mountain, Santubong and its various formal manifestation and evocative moods is from the Bako’s Main Beach - Teluk Assam. Because of its unique form: some call Mt. San-Do-Wang the Sleeping Buddha (睡佛), while others, the Devil Head Peak (鬼头山)
Mystic Mt. Santubong
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