Miri is the second largest town in Sararwak with a population of about 400 000 inhabitants. It is a very diverse town when it comes to inhabitants as they come from all over the world. In Miri the weather was cloudy, warm and humid and now we know that it takes long time to adjust to because we still sweat a lot.
This is the biggest Chinese temple of Miri.
This is the San Ching Tian temple which is the largest Taoist temple in Southeast Asia.
Petroleum is the largest industry in the region of Miri.
Masjid Jamek Miri. (one of the town mosques of Miri).
Lambir Hills National Park is known because of its waterfalls. Beside that it is probably the National Park with the worlds most complex and diverse forest ecosystem. The park has the greatest known level of plant biodiversity on the planet. It provides home for 237 different species of birds, flying squirrels, wild pigs, gibbons, many different types of monkey, various species of deer and untold insects and other invertebrates.
We are ready to go.
The only animal we saw was from this bridge, but we did not really see it, we only heard it when it ran into the bushes...
The first waterfall we saw was not very big.
We were told we could swim in this one, but we didn't. The water was brown, a bit cold and we were the only ones.
The park was quite pleasant to walk in. In some places they even made real stairs for us, but we were not that lucky most of the places and there the trails would be full of roots and not very easy to trek.
This was the last waterfall during our visit to the park. We had a lovely day where it took us about 5 hours to walk 5 km.
When we got to Miri we met a nice English man from London called Dave. We spent a couple of days with him and we also spent some time in the Lambir park together. One day Markus and Dave had several beers together. It was a fun night which also included some horrible karaoke. Most of the bars in Borneo are karaoke bars.
Also Dave agreed that Markus has probably the coolest hat in the world.
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