Tagged With "Kuching"

I certainly hope this is not the last market...I never get tired of them!

I agree with PHeymont. I think these market pieces show us more about a society's culture and cuisine than any other series of photos could. So if you've got more, we'd love to see them!

Hmm, guess this just isn't a war trophy kind of crowd. Or maybe you had to be there.

In all my travels to SE Asia, I haven't made it to Borneo yet. You describe it just as I imagined it to be.

To view any society one dimensionally makes no sense, of course, except maybe for the sake of a good headline (pun intended).  The people of Borneo were, however, sometimes prone to settling disputes with warfare that included collecting enemy heads.

Kuching, in Malaysian Borneo, was founded by an adventurous Englishman, Rajah James Brooke, on the Sarawak River that was the only access to the interior of that part of Borneo. 

The impetus for my trip to Borneo came, as it often does for me, from a casual reference or suggestion, in this case both.  First was a phrase I’d seen in passing, "White Rajas of Borneo". 

The market area of Kuching isn’t, as in other towns I visited in Borneo, in one main building.  It’s spread around in a compact area of the city, on streets with names like Jalan Market and Jalan Main Bazaar.