浪迹沙洲（八）- 古晋

I would like to write about the trip today in Kuching in english...just bcoz of tired of writing in chinese..

ok, here come the story...

Thank to Derek and his family for the hospitality. this morning, we having breakfast with his family together before his parent and sister back to their hometown- Song. a place between Sibu and Kapit.
I had tried the Sarawak Laksa, and my bro ordered the Kuching famous Koh Lo Mee. Well, it is definitely that Kuching food is much more better then other place in Sarawak, especially Sibu. haha.....
The laksa here is not the same as we found in peninsular Malaysia, it is more like our curry mee. Or juz exactly the Singapore Laksa. The one I order, is not bad. and Koh Lo mee, is really better then Gan Pua.
Oh ya, one more special thing in Kuching is the 3 layer Tea. U can found it everywhere in Kuching.

after the breakfast, we take about 1 and half hour time to travel to Anna Rais Village, a Melanau heritage village. It was a long long journey, but is worth. U can enjoy the flora and fauna on the way to the village, the feeling is just like you enter a forest, because its only have 1 way along the road and everything around you is GREEN.

we visit the Rumah Panjang of Melanau people in Anna Rais Village, although it is a tourist spot, but still there are residence in the rumah panjang. We were welcome to the rumah panjang with their orang asli wine, Tuak. A kind of their tradition liquor made from the Padi,tampui and other secret recipe.

     
There are also a room where they keep the human skull. According to a tour guide, these skull were used to keep the spirit of the death. See from the piture on the right ahnd side, there should be a fire burning 24 hour on the location of the canon, and the skull is hand above the beam. They believe that the skull have to kept warm so that the spirit will be trap inside the skull, this also help to dry the skull and to preserve the skull. The skull must be taken from a strong guy, woman ,old fork and kid are not taken as this is a taaboo .

There are lot of thign to be visit in this rumah panjang. You can learn of their culture, see how they live, it is a good experience.  you can see they still using fire wood to cook and boil water, a lot of wood were dried under the sun outside their house.

  

we also have the opportunity to visit the hot spring near the village. It is very weird as the hot spring is juz a very small part on the side of the river. the water is very very hot, I can only manage to put my feet into the water for a while only. BUT, the water around the spring is the cold water from the river...AMAZING!! You can see that there are bubble come out from the underneath, which is the sources of the heat. A local people told us that there are still a lot of hot spring can be found along the down stream of the river at the other side.

after the visit to Anna Rais village, we on our journey to tried the famous PORK satay in kuching. it is delicious and special, u cant found easily in peninsular malaysia.

at the night, we have the opportunnity to join the  church fellowship in Kuching Methodist church. It is great to worship the Lord where ever we are.