Richard drives us to the national park the next following day after our arrival. The journey takes approximately 4 hours to reach the hydro dam jetty. We stop at a little town name “Lachau” for lunch and then continue our journey passing by Sri Aman and proceed to Batang Ai national park entrance jetty. The road conditions at East Coast Malaysia are not that good where the journey to Sibu and Miri might take 6 hour and 9 hour respectively. It was indeed a hectic drive along the way.
Finally we reach the jetty at 3:30pm and waiting to board the boat at 4:15pm to the Batang Ai Longhouse Resort.
I am kind of excited when I saw the beautiful lake dam at Batang Ai.
The boat takes us 45 minutes to reach the Longhouse resort. I would recommend this place if you like to relax looking at the lake and getting some fresh air from the forest with additional some trekking to Iban longhouse then this place might be an interest to you.
We have a light pool swim at the resort in the evening before ending our day with a family dinner at the resort. Then we have a early rest after the long journey.
We have a light nature trekking the next day at 7:30am. The nature trekking pass through a suspension bridges that let us enjoy the national park scenery and birds. The light trekking takes us 1 hour to complete.
Then we had our breakfast at 8:30am before proceeding our kayaking at the lake the next 1 hour. Even though it was a hot sunny day but the kayaking was good enjoying the scenery around the lake. Is awesome!!!
Here is the UNESCO tentative list for Batang Ai National Park: -
http://whc.unesco.org/en/tentativelists/state=my
Our little trip at Kuching ends up with some wildlife and traditional culture. We visited the Semenggoh Orang Utan Sanctuary and also Bidayuh Traditional Longhouse.
