Trip to Lambir Hills - Hawkers Market

Set off with great excitement on Friday morning – our first trip out into the countryside. Only a really short drive – about an hour - to the Lambir Hills National Park but we actually drove past that to the Borneo Rainforest resort. New and not yet officially opened we were a bit apprehensive about what we might find. First thing was an off road drive to the hotel – glad we had the 4 wheel drive!

However hotel very nice and our little chalet was nicely appointed as they say, tucked away in the trees. We had a very pleasant if uneventful stay with actually very little wild life to see, but lots of rain! The Night Safari that we had signed up for was cancelled due to the rain. Food was disappointing – funny that as everywhere else we have found has such fantastic and cheap food. So not sure we will return to the resort, but as our first experience of adventure outside Miri on our own it was good. We will certainly return to Lambir Hills.

My book curling in the damp - imagine what our forefathers thought when they came to the Tropics with no a/c?!

Feeding fish - view across the forest - Howard at our chalet door

On Saturday we set off looking for a bit more adventure back into the National Park itself but the trails were closed because of the still continuing rain so we just headed back to Miri itself. Once we got back to the coast it dried up and we headed south looking for a nice beach we had heard about. Found it or nearly it but the sea was rough and we had no children with us desperate to swim so we happily hunted for shells and headed home.

We went to eat at the weekend hawkers market and that really was exciting. Loved everythgin we bought but we were very conservative. Maybe we’ll try the fish the next time!

This is suger cane being crushed and the juice saved and sold as a drink.

And finally on the way home we came across the Egg shop – selling only eggs!