Borneo Excursions

Full Day Longhouse/Miri City Tour

Early morning, depart your hotel for a short flight to Miri and then an hour and a half scenic countryside drive to reach an Iban Longhouse with about 95 families.  You will be greeted by colourful dancers in their traditional costume with exotic traditional music from the gongs and drums.  The chief of the longhouses will invite you to tour the longhouses and see their communal living quarters.  Take a walk to their farm of rice fields, fruit orchard and jungle where they may get jungle vegetables for food or just observe how the Iban attend to their daily chores.  Return to Miri for lunch and then proceed to city tour.  The first destination will be at the Grand Old Lady at Canada Hill where the first oil rig in Malaysia was found and it is also the site to view Miri town and beyond.  Visit a TaoistTemple, which is regarded as the largest in South East Asia and drop by the market place to see the locals selling jungle produce, wild fruits, handicrafts and many other things unique to Sarawak.  Transfer to airport for departure flight back to Kota Kinabalu and transfer to your hotel.

** What to bring – Disposable raincoat, cap, sunblock lotion, insect repellent, drinking water, Use good walking shoes/flat sandal. Comfortable cotton T-shirts with long or short pants recommended.

Note: Petroleum Museum Miri is closed on Mondays