Skrang River Safari
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The safari takes you to a four-hour journey along the Skrang River
. Occasionally, you shoot the rapids. The journey brings you to the Iban longhouses. You might be asked to participate in their ceremonies - which includes an offering of rice wine.
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Hang Tuah Well
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Located in Kampunr Duyong where Hang Tuah way born and spent his childhood among four of his good friends who later became the famous knights of Melaka.
Mulu National Park
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It is Sarawak largest national park, covering 544sq. km of primary rainforest. Mulu's major claim to fame is its spectacular limetone caves. The caves of Mulu command a long list of superlatives including the world's largest cave passage, the world's largest natural rock chamber and the longest cave system in South-East Asia. The limestone pinnacles formation are believed to be shaped since 1.65 million years ago during the Ice Age
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Bako National Park
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The Bako National
Park is SaraÂwak's oldest national park, coverÂing an area of 2,742 hectares at the tip of the Muara Tebas peninsula. It offers visitors an excellent introduction to the rainforest of Borneo. It is one of the smallest parks in Sarawak, yet one of the most interesting, as it contains almost every type of vegetation found in Borneo
Gunung Gading National Park
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This park is an important conservation zone for the spectacular Rafflesia, the world's largest flower. A system of plankwalk gives visitors to access to the area where the Rafflesia is commonly found.
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Mini Malaysia
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Malaysia's traditional houses that are individually constructed by a master builder. Each of the homes represents the architectural style of the 13 states in Malaysia and is furnished with various items such as musical instruments, home appliances and furniture. Adjoin is the Mini ASEAN which is a summary of the prominent cultural elements of the ASEAN countries.
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Cape Ruchado
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Cape Rachado or Tanjung Tuan is reputed to be birdwatchers paradise because of it is a gathering place for migratory birds, like sparrows, hawks, honey buzzards, eagles and swifts during the end of the periods of the south-west and north-east monsoons. On the top of this high promontory is a lighthouse originally built by the Portuguese and reconstructed in its present style by the British in the 19th century.
Pulau Upeh
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Visitors can witness the beautiful Hawksbill Turtle nesting at the island beaches. The turtle is one of the Earth's rare species, with a hawklike beak and a thorny shell.
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Baba Nyoya Heritage Museum
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Intermarriage between early Chinese settlers and local Malay resulted in the unique Baba Nyonya culture. The museum provides interesting insights into the price!ess heirloom unique to the Baba Nyoya heritage.
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Christ Church
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Standing exactly as it has always been since 1753, the church is testimony to Dutch architectural ingenuity. Take note of the church's hand-made pews, ceiling beams constructed without joints, Brass Bible, tombstone written in Armenian and "Last Supper" in glazed tiles.
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A' F'amosa Water World
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Besides having many water slides, A'Famosa Water World
also has a man-made beach, a boating lake, and several other attractions not found elsewhere. It is also the longest and widest theme park in Malaysia with the highest slide as well.
Matang Wildlife Centre
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A part of Kubah National Park, Matang Wildlife Centre
is Sarawak's main wildlife conservation and rehabilitation centre. It is a house for wild animals that have been rescued from captivity, and a training centre for young orang-utans.
Lambir Hills National Park
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Probably the most biologically diverse rainforest in the world, as well innumerable plant and tree species. The park offers excellent trekking trails, a canopy viewing tower, delightful jungle pools and waterfalls, just 30 minutes from Miri.
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Tunku Abdul Rahman Park
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The Tunku Abdul
Rahman
Park is a very unique park! The park comprising of Pulau Gaya, Sapi, Mamutik, Manukan and Sulug, offers stretches of white sandy beaches, and the most diverse coral reefs and marine life in the world.
Kinabalu Park
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Kinabalu Park, is now proclaimed as a World Heritage Site, covering an area ' of 754sq km, possesses the highest mountain in South-East Asia (4095m). It consists a diverse range of temperature and climate with all its exotic plants, birds and insects, and new species are found every year.
Turtle Islands Park
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North East of Sabah lies the Turtle Islands
Park, it was formed by Pulau Selingan, Pulau Bakungan Kecil and Pulau Gulisan. These islands are famed for the Green and Hawksbill turtles, which are found in the surrounding of the seas which come ashore to nest on the beachs all year round.
Pulau Sipadan
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Praised by the internationally renowned diver and filmmaker Jacques Cousteau as one of the best diving spots in the world, Sipadan is the only oceanic island in Malaysia rising 600m on a limestone pinnacle that "mushrooms" out near the surface. The abundant and stunning marine life will thrill and amaze you with no end.
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Pulau Layang-Layang
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The Layang-Layang Atoll, is located 165 miles north west of Kota Kinabalu. Oval-shaped and blessed with clear blue waters, you can also windsurf, dive, snorkel, fish to your heart's content, then climb back on land and watch the thousands of migratory birds nesting there in this nature lover's paradise.
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Poring Hot Springs
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Poring Hot Springs
lies on the southern boundary of Kinabalu Park. Open-air Japanese-style bathubs fed by a sulphurous underground spring offer a gentle relief for tired muscles. The tropical ; rainforest setting is believed to have therapeutic properties.
Gomantong Caves
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The Gomantong Caves
which is about 32km south of Sandakan, is home to over one million a swiftlets. Within the caves, swifts build their nests high on the cave walls and roofs. These nests are considered as delicacy and being collected by men on climbing up on a tall bamboo poles.
Niah Caves
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The Niah National Park encompasses 3103 hectares of limestone and forests. It is one of the largest cave in the world. Prehistoric paintings and the remains of the artists were found there. Archaeologists also discovered the remains of a prehistoric man in the Great Cave
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Loagan Bunut National Park
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It is home to Sarawak largest natural lake. The area expands and contracts according to the amount of rainfall, forming a unique and ever-changing ecosystem. The grasslands, swamps and reed-beds of this wetland park are bird-watcher's paradise. Visitors can also visit Berawan Villages and longhouses which is nearby
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Sarawak Cultural Village and Heritage Centre
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A living museum indeed! Located at Santubong, the Sarawak
Cultural
Village
conserves and portrays the multifaceted cultures and customs of ethnic groups such as the Ibans, Bidayuh and Melanaus. The Heritage
Centre
is an integral part of the cultural village which offers traditional arts of Sarawakians.
Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary
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This is where the world's largest Orang
Utan Rehabilitation Centre located. An area of 11,000 acres of virgin jungle has been set aside for a forest reserve and orang utan rehabilitation centre. This is where orang utans which have strayed into logging camps or rescued from captivity are being taken care of.
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Danum Valley
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The Danum Valley
Conservation Area is a prime example of lowland rain forest habitat with an incredible diversity of plant and animal research centre, with an area of 438 sq km. It is provides visitors with an unparalled ecological experience into wilds and wonders of ancient tropical forests.
Malaysia
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A nation of Southeast Asia, Malaysia
consists of two components: peninsular Malaysia, which is part of mainland Southeast Asia, and the states of Sabah and Sarawak on the island of Borneo. Although there are considerable areas of lowland and coastal plain, much of the country consists of mountainous terrain clothed in dense rainforest. With the exception of Mount Kinabalu in Sabah, elevations are modest-3,000 to 6,000 feet (1,000 to 2,000 meters). Since Malaysia lies entirely between one and seven degrees north of the equator, it experiences a humid equatorial-tropical climate. The capital of Malaysia is Kuala Lumpur.Peninsular Malaysia covers an area of 50,881 square miles (131,778 square kilometers). Kuala Lumpur occupies a small enclave in the west-central state of Selangor, designated in 1974 as a federal territory. About four fifths of Malaysia's population resides in peninsular Malaysia. The states of Sabah, with an area of 28,424 square miles (73,619 square kilometers), and Sar
Kuala Lumpur
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Long one of the fastest-growing cities in Southeast Asia, Kuala Lumpur
is the national capital and largest city of Malaysia. Kuala Lumpur is an administrative center of Selangor, one of the country's 13 states.Kuala Lumpur is in the south-central part of the Malay Peninsula, near the west coast. It lies at the junction of the Gombak and the Kelang rivers. The Kelang provides a waterway westward to the Strait of Malacca, 25 miles (40 kilometers) away. Across the strait is the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The city is built on hilly land near equatorial rain forests.Chinese and Malays comprise most of the population of Kuala Lumpur. There are also many people of Indian and European origin. The varied backgrounds of Kuala Lumpur's inhabitants are reflected in the city's architectural mix of Chinese shops, Muslim minarets, and modern skyscrapers. At 1,483 feet (452 meters), the two Petronas office towers were the world's tallest buildings when they were completed in 1998. Among the cit
Malaysia (from arts, Southeast Asian)
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At least three principal cultural influences Indonesian, Hindu, and IslÄmic left their musical marks in Malaysia
. The Indonesian influence is seen principally in musical forms, participants, and paraphernalia of the Malaysian shadow play (wayang kulit). It is said that the Indian epics and, especially, the Pandji tales of Java came to Malaysia via Indonesia, but there are songs in certain plays and musical instruments (e.g., the double-headed drum and oboe) that could have reached Malaysia from India through other routes. Islam races are evident in melismatic songs among the Malay groups in songs connected with religious rituals and in choral singing in the ma'yong plays. Chinese music, a more recent development, is largely practiced among the Chinese communities, principally in Singapore.Before Malaysian independence, the nobat, an old royal instrumental ensemble dating back to about the 16th century, played exclusively for important court ceremonies in the palaces of the sultans of
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Malaysia and Indonesia
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Malaysia and Indonesia
(from Buddhism)Though some scholars locate the Suvarnabhumi ("Land of Gold"), to which AÅ›okan missionaries were supposedly sent, somewhere on the Malay Peninsula or in Indonesia, this is probably not accurate. It is, however, quite certain that Buddhism reached these areas by the beginning centuries of the 1st millennium AD.With the help of Indian missionaries such as the monk Guṇavarman, Buddhism had gained a firm foothold on Java well before the 5th century AD. Buddhism was also introduced at about this time in Sumatra, and, by the 7th century, the king of ÅšrÄ«vijaya on the island of Sumatra was a Buddhist. When the Chinese traveler I-ching visited this kingdom in the 7th century, he noted that HÄ«nayÄna was dominant in the area but that there were also a few MahÄyÄnists. It was also in the 7th century that the great scholar DharmapÄla from Nalanda visited Indonesia.The Åšailendra dynasty, which ruled over the Malay Peninsula and a large section of
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Malaysia and singapore
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Malaysia and singapore (from education history of)The Malay States, Singapore, and sectors of North Borneo were British colonies until reorganized as the nation of Malaysia in 1963. Singapore left the coalition in 1965 to become an independent city-nation. As a result, while Malaysia and Singapore share common educational roots, their systems have diverged since 1965.Under British rule, the most significant feature of education on the Malay peninsula was the structuring of primary schools in four language streams Malay, Chinese, English, and Tamil. Students in the English stream enjoyed favoured access to secondary and higher education as well as to employment in government and commerce. After 1963 Malaysian leaders sought to indigenize and unify their society by adopting the Malay language as the medium of instruction in schools beyond the primary level and by teaching English only as a second language. In contrast, the government of Singapore urged everyone to learn English, plus one
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