Tempat-tempat menarik dibandaraya Kuching, Sarawak

Tempat Menarik di Kuching

Jumaat, 26 Jun 2009

Sarawak Regatta









Sarawak regatta merupakan acara tahunan yang paling popular di bandaraya Kuching bersempena menyambut Hari Bandaraya. Pada tahun ini 2009 Sarawak Regatta akan diadakan di Sungai Sarawak pada 31 Julai hingga 2 Ogos 2009.
Sertai kemuncak keriuhan dihujung minggu bersama pelumba-pelumba perahu bertanding dan menyaksikan pelumba -pelumba kegemaran anda berentap merebut gelaran Juara Sarawak Regatta.

Selasa, 2 Jun 2009

Muzium Kucing




Muzium Kucing ini adalah landmark di Kuching yang mudah dikenali. Lokasinya terletak di sebelah Petra Jaya (seberang sungai Sarawak) dan boleh disinggah ketika dalam perjalanan ke Pantai Damai atau Santubong. Dari jauh lagi anda boleh melihat mercu tanda yang kelihatan seperti sebuah kubah masjid di atas bukit. Malah akan ada mereka yang tersalah anggap bahawa ia adalah Masjid Negeri Sarawak yang kebetulan pula berada di daerah yang sama.











Sebelum sampai ke Muzium Kucing, kita akan menjangka akan menemukan pelbagai jenis spesies kucing hidup yang dipamerkan kepada pengunjung. Tentu mereka yang juga pencinta kucing tidak sabar untuk ke sini. Tetapi sabar dulu. Kucing kucing yang ada di muzium ini bukanlah kucing hidup atau kucing betul, tapi sekadar koleksi patung dan replika kucing sahaja. Malah tahi kucing pun tak ada.









Jadi jika anda seorang pencinta kucing hidup dan berharap akan dapat berjumpa dan bermain main dengan mereka di sini, mungkin tempat ini tidak sesuai untuk anda. Selain daripada replika dan patung, ada juga risalah, gambar, buku, karikatur, bingkisan sejarah serta jenis jenis kucing yang dipertontonkan di papan umum.










Walaubagaimanapun, lokasi bangunan Muzium Kucing ini yang terletak di atas bukit (yang diberi nama Bukit Siol) membolehkan pengunjung melihat bandar Kuching dari puncak bukit. Bukit Siol adalah satu antara dua tempat yang sesuai untuk melihat bandar Kuching selain dari menara di Wisma Budaya Kuching. Di atas bukit ini juga taman mini yang sesuai dijadikan tempat bersiar siar atau melepak sambil makan kuih batang buruk (kuih dijual berasingan).







Bayaran masuk ke dalam muzium adalah percuma, tetapi jika anda berhasrat untuk mengambil gambar, caj sebanyak RM3 dikenakan.






















Muzium ini mempunyai sejarah yang tersendiri. Ilham untuk melahirkan sebuah muzium kucing lahir dari ketua menteri Sarawak oleh kerana sejarah bandaraya Kuching itu sendiri berkaitan dengan keunikan kehidupan kucing.
Muzium Kucing diuruskan oleh Dewan Bandaraya Kuching Utara (DBKU) yang mempunyai pejabat operasi di bangunan yang sama.

Muzium Sarawak


Muzium Sarawak dikatakan Muziumyang terbesar di Malaysia and is a must visit place while in Kuching. Terdapat 2 Muzium di sini, Tun Abdul Razak Hall and the Islamic Museum. All the museum in Kuching seems to be operated at a standard time of 9am-4.30pm every day. Admission is free for all the museums in Kuching .

Ini adalah Muzium lama yang dibina pada tahun 1891. Dibina oleh Charles Brooke, the White Rajah of Sarawak, bangunan mengetengahkan senibinaan Eropah zaman Victorian.
The building permanently display local native arts and crafts as well as collections of local animals as mainly encouraged by the famous naturalist, Alfred Wallace, who was then collecting specimens in the country.

There are also a few buildings nearby the old building, such as the Art Museum. A comprehensive paintings and art work from local and foreign artists can be found here.


An interesting native's pole can be seen in front of the Art Museum


There is also a Natural History Museum nearby the old building but was always close. It was also close during my last visit in 2007. I guess it is no longer operational


Just opposite the Sarawak Museum Old Building, across Tun Abang Haji Openg Road is the Tun Abdul Razak Hall. It made up of 2 floors and was previously used as a State Legislative Assembly Hall from 1973-1975.


The ground floor is an exhibition hall while the first floor display a collection related to pre historic era such as jars, brassware, Chinese furniture, longhouse gallery and others.


Just behind the Tun Abdul Razak Hall is the Islamic Museum . It is divided into 7 galleries and I was amazed with its Islamic artifacts, costumes and history.



Surrounding the Tun Abdul Razak Hall, there are a variety of exhibits at the open garden like this Iban Warboat, which can accommodate up to 25 persons.


There is also this mysterious stone carving. This is a reproduction of the rock carving from the original one which was cut on the face of a huge sand stone boulder standing at the edge of the mangrove swamp at Sungai Jaong, near Santubong in the Sarawak River Delta, 28km from Kuching. Sungai Jaong was a trading centre as early as the 11th century.


Several other carvings were found in the same area are in the same unexplained style-spread eagled figure with weird, perhaps hornbill head dresser. Other similar rock carvings known in Borneo are only found in the Kelabit highlands, 1000m in altitude and 500km away in the far interior.


This structure actually reminds me of Stonehenge at Salisbury. This is a reproduction of a dolmen from one of the megaliths as found in the Kelabit uplands in the Miri division. A dolmen consist of 3 or more large natural stones which support a larger one as roof to protect the bones of a chief buried underneath the structure.


All the megalithic activities were directly associated with funeral rituals of important persons. The Kelabit who have lived on the uplands for centuries continued to practise active megalithics before they became Christians around 1950


This impressive double trunk Salong (burial hut) was originally erected over 100 years ago on the right hand bank of Long Segahan, above Belaga in the Kapit division. This was presented to the Sarawak Museum by the people of Belaga in 1973.


Avun Dian, a great and powerful Kayan chief, had this burial hut made to inter the bones of his beloved young daughter, Lisan. It was reported it took 5 craftsmen and many other helpers 5 years to complete the elaborate carvings on the poles.


Many years later, the bones of Kejaman chief, Taman Tipung Tului, who was a grand nephew of chief Avun Dian, were also interred in this Salong.


Also available at the garden is the less elaborated Salong.






Padang Merdeka can also be seen from Tun Abdul Razak Hall.

Tua Pek Kong Temple


The ornately decorated temple is located on Jln Tunku Abdul Rahman, opposite the Waterfront, and is the oldest Chinese temple in Kuching. It is believed to have been built in 1843, although official records only recognize its existence in 1876. The Wang Kang festival commemorate the dead is held here.
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