青山岩 The Green Mountain Rock Temple @ Muara Tebas

A temple situated half way up the mountain, bellow the temple is a Malay village, and most of them are fisher man. It took more than half and hour car ride from Kuching town to reach there. That place is called the Muara Tebas, for Chinese we called it 青山 (Green Mountain).

The weather was very hot when we start our journey, when I look at the time it was one o’clock. The road to Green Mountain is not in a very good condition, it was a bumpy ride. There are a number of industrial factories along the road, so some parts of the road are badly damage by heavy vehicles. When Wei Shian and I reach our destination, I was surprise that there are no Malay kids asking for entrance fees. Usually there will be kids asking for entrance fees, and parking fees.

I love this place; it was very beautiful and has a very magnificent view. Slowly we walk up the steps one by one, I also capture every image into my camera one by one. I don’t have a spare battery and I didn’t recharge the batt last night, hope my camera won’t die on me now *worried*.

Though that day was not either the first or the fifteen of Chinese lunar calendar, but yet there are still a lot of people praying at the temple. I bought my self a set of joss stick, red candles, and paper money for RM2.00. I don’t really know the sequence of worshipping each god, so I just follow my instinct. Just like I predicted, my instinct was not 100% correct cause in the end I still left a few extra joss stick, I must miss out a few spot. After worshiping all the gods, I start to walk around the temple. At the left site of the temple there is a giant Buddha footprint, a shot story on the Buddha footprint.

The foot print of Load Buddha was left behind when he descended from the Tavatimsa Heaven after preaching the Abbidhamma to his mother. The imprint symbolizes the one hundred and eight auspicious sign of his soles. The food print is one of the sacred in Buddhism and is commonly found in Burmese temple.

There is also a very beautiful and large water fountain near the 108 Buddha foot print. Then Wei Shian said that there is a path that lead into the forest, because of curiosity we follow the path into the forest. As we go deeper Wei Shian said that maybe he knows what this place is for, I asked him to keep quite first and keep on walking. Yes He is right, it is a graveyard, and it is for Malay people, I hurry took a shot and went away.

My camera shuttle keeps on open and close, until I realize the annoying low batt symbol start to display at the top left corner of my camera. OMG, what a perfect time to ran out of batt please don’t die on me now. I still have a lot of thing to shoot at.

At then is about 2:00pm, there is no doubt I’ll get sunburn. I have to get really to be laugh by my co-worker tomorrow. I wanted to stay longer, but it was too hot and dry so we left. We did visit the Malay village, and I will post it up in my next blog after I have finish compiling it.

View on the first level of stairway to the temple.


This is the second level stairway to reach the temple


Quaint architecture


Entrance to the temple, there are two dragons sculpture on the roof of the temple.


Four god guarding the temple door.


Inside the temple


In the middle of the temple, there is a part that was not cover by roof.


Exquisite wooden sculpture.


The dragon


The 108 Buddha foot print.


There were also a lot of Bonsai surrounding the temple.


A rock model that is almost similar with the real The Green Mountain Rock Temple.


The water fountain near the Buddha foot print, it’s called the “Fountain of Wisdom” I throw a coin in and make a wish.


This is the path that lead us to the…


…Malay graveyard.


Bird's eyes view on the Malay fisherman village.


A mini fountain that have water lily.


A close-up view on the Lily.


Plan to ask for an oracle, but don’t know the procedure so I wait next time bring my family along to ask for oracle together.

Satok Plaza

Went to the Satok Plaza to pick a friend.

Taman Jubilee Mas (Jubilee Mas Park) @ Matang

This lately I feel very tired after finish work, feels like not having enough sleep but I didn’t either stay up late or sleep late. But why I still feel tired? Tonight very cold, is raining outside. Hope I can have a good night sleep.

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On the way home from The Matang Wildlife Centre, there is Recreation Park with just five minutes car ride from the wildlife centre.


Before entering the park, there are stalls that sell kuih, water, and snack.


Malay cake from left: Fried Sukun ( My mom told me this is called the Bread fruit in Chinese), fried potato, fried prawn cake. On top left corner is the fried banana cake.


Welcome to The Jubilee Park.


Most of the visitors are Malays. There are two Chinese girls bring their pet puppy picnic with them in the park, and they are taking photo of their dogs. They must love their dog very much.


Wilson (Me) and Wei Shian


There is a river at the back of this park, and this is the main attraction of the park. Most of the parent will let their children play in this river.


The water level is safe for children; the fish in the river have to stay alert by not letting the children catch them.


We bough some fried banana cake to eat, and chit-chat while watching the kids very relaxing. I had a very wonderful weekend.

Jungle Tracking @ Matang Wildlife

The animal enclosures opening hours in the afternoon is 2:00pm and 3:30pm.


Wei Shian and I join the two o’clock session.


First stop is the alligator. The ranger told us that he is actually not harmful to human, and it will only attack if threatened.


Well that ranger must be thinking that we are all three years old kid. I never heard of alligator that is not harmful to people.


This is the Sambar Dear (Inside the yellow circle), Rusa in Malay. Interesting fact about the dear is that their voice is a high-pitched grunt and they stamp their front feet when suspicious of danger.


Next stop an area that is surrounded by net. Two small birds house inside the cage.


An eagle is standing on top of a tree branch.


A wired bird, with no feathers on it’s neck.


This is called the Masked Palm Civet, it eat fruit, leaves, worms, and mollusks. Interesting fact about the Civet is that they usually nocturnal and arboreal, rarely descending to the ground.


This is the Malayan Porcupine, it eat roots, tubers, fruits, and bones. They has keen appetite for bones and teeth capable dealing with them. Even the skeleton of a large mammal that has died will soon be demolished by the porcupine.


When the porcupine saw us taking photo of them, they start to run for cover. They scare we’ll catch them.


Wei Shian didn’t wait for me, he proceed to the next stop first. Then he shout at me to hurry go up there…


I quickly ran up to see what’s happen and look around but see nothing. No signboard, no animal, only trees.


Suddenly everyone is pointing at a direction, and then I notice is a big black bear.


panasnya~~~


The Rhinoceros Hornbills, bird of Sarawak. Feed mainly on fruit, small birds, and lizard. A very shy and timid bird and this is a totally protected animal in Sarawak.


This is where the hornbills lives, have water, mountain, trees, bird house.


Next stop is the monkey.


They jump here and there, and make a lot of noise. Very naughty animal.


Our last stop is the Orang Utan, They feed on fruits with young leaves and insects. Interesting fact about this Orang Utan is that 96.4% similarity to human in terms of generic material.


Here is a clip on the Orang Utan. No mater how we called this big guy he just ignore us, and play on its own. So far this is the biggest orang utan that I had ever see.


The smaller orang utan taking a 5 minutes break after the photography session.


After our last stop, is time for us to head home.


On the way home. It was very fun able to visit to many animals today, hope next time when I come back again there will be more new animals to see.

Swimming @ Matang Wild Life

Welcome to Matang Wildlife Centre Sarawak, it took us for almost one hour motorcycle ride from Kuching town. It is situated at the western corner of the Kubah National Park. The animals here live surrounded by their habitat.


We actually plan to go Damai beach, but the weather is too hot and we’ll easily get sun burn. So we had to change place, to go here where there is big trees to shade us, and cold stream water.


Big caution sign board “Dear Visitors, Please be inform that any person that enter Matang Wildlife Centre shall enter the centre at his/her own risk. The Sarawak government shall not be responsible for any physical, mental or emotional injury sustains or any loss of life or property whatsoever kind within Matang Wildlife Center, by the Controller of National Park & Nature Reserves.”


Chalet RM150 per house, each of the chalets consists of two air-conditioned bedrooms with toilet and bath, a living room, a dining room and a kitchen.


This is the trail that leads to the picnic spots.


Pavilion at the center of the picnic spots.


This is the Rayu River, the water will flow all the way to Kubah National Park.


We find a shade spot, unload our stuff and jump into the water :)


The water is still, but is not clean. Under the water is full of fallen leaf and tree trunk.


I set self-timer, and hurry swim into position. But is too slippy, so can’t get a good shot.


Self-timer takes 2, that ass hole Wei Shian!!! Making fun of me.


The nature refrigerator, one way to keep the cola cool.


The sun hides behind the cloud to take a 5 minutes rest.


The Raya River at Matang Wildlife Centre.