My Days in Sarawak

Day 1, we went to cultural village from the airport. The place was beautiful with a mountain there. We learnt that there were a lot of ethnic groups in Singapore such as Orang Iban, Bidayuh and more. In fact, the chief of the village was an Iban. We went to the different longhouses of the different tribe and each was different than the other. We slept our first night in an Iban longhouse. Day 2, We went to breakfast and after breakfast, we headed for Kampung Telaga Air which is a fishing village and we learnt how to make kuih and a person there showed us how he make a boat. It was very educational for us, After that, we went to the houses of the village people. They were different from Singapore flats. Each house took up a lot of land. After that, I went fishing. Eventhough none of us caught a fish, I felt happy as this is my first time fishing and I got to catch a fish head. After fishing we went for lunch. After lunch, we went to check in at Merdeka Palace Hotel. It was of course very different from the longhouses we stayed in. After resting in our rooms, we went for dinner in a seafood hawker centre. The food was very delicious. After dinner, the boys and girls separated as the boys went to Sarawak plaza while the girls went to Parkson. Our main attraction in the Plaza. LEGO. We had fun playing lego. After that, we went back to the hotel and sleep with full of excitement for our next day. Day 3, after breakfast, went to SMK Siburan, one of the school in SARAWAK. We mingled with the students there and had a tour around the school with the students introducing the school, not the teachers. After waving goodbye to the students there, We headed to Gunung Gading, one of sarawak's national park. We had our packed lunch there. After lunch, we went for a 30 mins trek to see the Rafflesia, the world's biggest flower. The flower had not fully bloomed yet so not smell was coming out of the Rafflesia. After that, we went back to our hotel for a rest and a change of clothes before we headed to dinner. Dinner was at HARTS which was a chicken buffet and it was simply irresistible. Afer ending off our dinner with ice cream, we again went to Sarawak Plaza to play lego again. After that, we went back to the hotel and a lot of intresting things happen in our which I will not mention in this blog. Day 4, After breakfast and checking out from the hotel, we went to the orang utan reserve where we were very lucky as we saw a lot of orang utan in their natural habitat. The biggest of them, Ritchie, ageing 27 and weighing 120 kg. After visiting the orang utan, we went to the Sarawak museum where we saw a lot of artifacts about Sarawak and learnt more about the history of Sarawak. After that, we went shopping and we shopped in the main Bazaar where we could buy stuffs for our family members. Then we went to the latest Sarawak shopping complex, The Spring. After that, we went for dinner in KFC which is also our last dinner in Sarawak. Then, we went to the hotel and boarded the flight back to Singapore. Overall, the whole trip was very exciting and the teachers were very sporting especially Mr Zulkifli who was like the leader of the boy group. If there is another trip like this, I would surely go again.


Zaki

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