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The Kuching Wetlands National Park (KWNP; Malay: Taman Negara Tanah Lembap Kuching) is a national park in Petra Jaya, Kuching District, Kuching Division, Sarawak, Malaysia. It is the remains of the former Sarawak Mangrove Forest Reserve which covered 170 km 2. Located 30 km from Kuching, the Wetlands National Park was gazetted in 1992 and ...
Fort Margherita. Fort Margherita is an old fort constructed in 1879 [3] by Charles Brooke, Rajah of Sarawak, situated in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. The fort is an important landmark and monument in Sarawak's history which goes back to the Brooke dynasty. [1] The fort, built in the style of an English castle, was designed to protect Kuching ...
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Kuching (/ ˈkuːtʃɪŋ / KOO-ching), [needs Malay IPA] officially the City of Kuching, [ 6 ] is the capital and the most populous city in the state of Sarawak in Malaysia. [ 7 ] It is also the capital of Kuching Division. The city is on the Sarawak River at the southwest tip of Sarawak on the island of Borneo and covers an area of 431 km 2 ...
Date established. 1770 [1] Tua Pek Kong Temple (Chinese: 古晉大伯公廟) (also called as Siew San Teng Temple, Chinese: 壽山亭) [2] is a Chinese temple situated near the waterfront of Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, opposite the Chinese History Museum. [3] It is the oldest temple in the city and formed a part of the Kuching Heritage Trail ...
The Astana (Malay: Astana Sarawak) is a palace in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, on the north bank of the Sarawak River, opposite the Kuching Waterfront. It is the official residence of the Yang di-Pertua Negeri Sarawak (Governor of Sarawak). The name is a variation of ' istana ', meaning ' palace '. [ 1 ] It was built in 1870 by the second White ...
River embankment and Kuching Main Bazaar between 1900 and 1930. Kuching Main Bazaar shophouses between 1900 and 1930. Early transportation in South East Asia were heavily dependent on rivers. Therefore, Chinese settlers usually named the first street near the river as "Hai Gan Street" (海乾街) which means "at the edge of river/sea".
The museum is currently housed on the bottom floor of the Kuching North City Hall, located in Petra Jaya, about 20 minutes away from the Kuching Waterfront. The museum covers an area of 1,035 square metres on Bukit Siol which is 60 metres above sea level. [1] The museum is RM1.00 for entry, which also includes a DBKU Cat Museum keychain.