Friday, June 5, 2009

Bako-Treks & Trails


Bako has extensive 18 colour coded jungle trails that can be as a guide from one trails to another. The trails offer to amateur (like me haha) to professional that can walk up to 10 hour walk to Telok Limau or Keruin...I need extensive exercise in order to do that..but I do believe I will and I can do that..next year, just mark my words! Eventough we choose hostel as our accomadation (less thrilling compare to camping) but we able to cover 7 trails, and I believe as a first timer it really achievement..bravo to us.

Wednesday, June 3, 2009

Bako National Park-Introduction







Bako National Park is the oldest national park in Sarawak located at jagged peninsula nestled in between the mouth of the Sarawak and Bako Rivers and jutting out into South China Sea. Although it less than 20km from downtown Kuching as the crow flies, it feel like worlds and eons away.
Bako national park offer excellent rainforest scenery and great adventures. People always told me that in kuching we dont have beauty rainforest compare to other Borneo ..honestly that person not yet visit Bako National Park. I also have that kind of "thinking" about Kuching, Sarawak..but after I went to this park..I changed my mind. Sarawak offer alot of things that me as "kuchingian" take for granted.
The park was gazzeted in 1957 and cover 2,727 hectares at the tip of Muara Tebas peninsula and offer vegetation found in Borneo. There are seven complete eco-systems are found there: mangrove forest, beach vegetation, Cliff vegitation, Peat Swamp Forest, Kerangas ( Heath) forest and Padang (grassland) vegetation.
The interior plateau of the park is marked by rainforest and kerangas, the distinctive sandstone habitat that forms the geological backbone of the plateau.Hiking trails cross the plateau and connect with most of the main beaches (which also can be reach by boat-itu penipuan hahah because its all about advantures here) anyway,overall Bako is easy trip from kuching and my advise to anyone who want to go there, take time to enjoy the scanery, enjoy your friends and have fun.