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NATIONAL PARKS & NATURE RESERVES
Entry Fees & Other Charges: Visitors to all naional
parks in Sarawak must pay an entry fee upon arrival,
shown below. More detailed informaion on park fees
can be found at www.sarawakforestry.com. Note: Mulu
Naional Park has its own schedule of fees - see Miri &
Northeast Sarawak, page 89.
Naional Parks: Adult RM 20, Disabled Adult RM 10, Bako’s plant life is both beauiful, and readily accessible.
Child 7-17 yrs RM 7, Child 6 yrs & under free. 50% All the trails have a great variety of vegetaion, from
discount for residents of Sarawak. mighty 80-metre dipterocarps to dense mangrove
Wildlife Centres - Semenggoh & Matang: Adult RM 10, forest. Carnivorous pitcher plants are found on the
Disabled Adult RM 5, Child 7-17 yrs RM 7, Child 6 yrs & Lintang trail. Bako also has some good white sand
under free. 50% discount for residents of Sarawak. beaches that provide perfect resing spots in between
Nature Reserves - Wind & Fairy Caves (Bau): Adult RM jungle treks. Telok Pandan Kecil is perhaps Bako’s best
5, Disabled Adult RM 3, Child 7-17 yrs RM 2, Child 6 yrs & beach, but all of the beaches are bordered by limestone
under free. Residents of Sarawak RM 1, concessions free. and sandstone clifs, and the acion of the sea has let
Commercial Filming & Photography Permit: RM 1,000. some remarkable rock formaions, such as the famous
Advance noiicaion required. Please contact Sarawak Sea Stack.
Forestry’s corporate afairs department, Tel: 610088,
www.sarawakforestry.com. If you visit Telok Assam beach near the park HQ, you
will see hundreds of swits hovering around their nests
Accommodaion Bookings: The Naional Park and at the rocks at the far end of the beach. Don’t leave
Wildlife Booking Oice (Tel: 248088, Fax: 248087), the beach ater the sun disappears behind Mount
next to the Kuching Visitors’ Informaion Centre in the Santubong. Wait another 20 minutes as the sky’s
Sarawak Tourism Complex, handles accommodaion colours oten change dramaically, providing a colourful
bookings for all naional parks and wildlife centres. backdrop to the mountain.
Campsites do not include tents - please bring your own.
For online bookings see www.sarawakforestry.com. Trail Closure: Bako’s long distance trails are occasionally
closed to trekkers for conservaion reasons so that an
Bako Naional Park area is let undisturbed for a ixed period of ime. Please
A Naional Park since 1957, Bako ofers the perfect check with the Naional Parks & Wildlife booking oice
introducion to Sarawak’s forests and wildlife. The park if you wish to know which paricular trails are closed.
covers the northern ip of the Muara Tebas peninsula,
an area of 27 sq km. Despite its seemingly small size, Accommodaion: Be careful of the monkeys - they are
Bako contains a wide range of vegetaion - swamp compulsive thieves. Bako is very popular, especially at
forest, scrub-like padang vegetaion, mangrove forest, weekends, so it is advisable to book accommodaion
dipterocarp forest, delicate clif vegetaion and more. well in advance. Accommodaion consists of Types 4, 5
In fact, at Bako it is possible to see almost every type of and 6 Forest Lodges (RM 238, RM 159 & RM 79.50) a
vegetaion found in Borneo. Bako also contains a rich Hostel (RM 42.50 per 4-bed room or RM 15.90 per bed)
variety of wildlife and a coastline covered with small and a Campsite (RM 5).
bays, coves and beaches.
The Park HQ: Upon arrival visitors must register at the
The park’s well-marked trails ofer interesing walks Park HQ. There is an informaion centre, canteen and
ranging from short strolls to serious full-day hikes, and shop at the Park HQ. The informaion centre shows
visitors are almost guaranteed to see wildlife. Long- ilms and slide shows on Bako’s wildlife, and has full
tailed macaque monkeys and silver leaf monkeys are details of all the trails and what to look out for. The
ever present, wild boar are oten found rummaging canteen serves a range of hot and cold drinks, snacks
around the park HQ, squirrels and monitor lizards are and light meals (fried rice, noodles etc.).
also common. There is every chance of seeing the rare
and unusual proboscis monkeys on trails such as Telok Geing There: Take a taxi (RM 40), Rapid Kuching Bus
Paku and Telok Delima, paricularly early morning or No 1 or bas sewa to Kampung Bako, a picturesque
late aternoon. You are more likely to see wildlife if ishing village. From there you have to charter a boat at
you keep quiet and liste carefully - you’ll probably hear the Naional Park Terminal. The return fare is RM 94 per
the crash of vegetaion before you are able to locate a boat (up to 5 people) to the ParkHQ. There will be an
proboscis monkey high up in the forest canopy. addiional boat fee if you wish to visit the Sea Stack or
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Entry Fees & Other Charges: Visitors to all naional
parks in Sarawak must pay an entry fee upon arrival,
shown below. More detailed informaion on park fees
can be found at www.sarawakforestry.com. Note: Mulu
Naional Park has its own schedule of fees - see Miri &
Northeast Sarawak, page 89.
Naional Parks: Adult RM 20, Disabled Adult RM 10, Bako’s plant life is both beauiful, and readily accessible.
Child 7-17 yrs RM 7, Child 6 yrs & under free. 50% All the trails have a great variety of vegetaion, from
discount for residents of Sarawak. mighty 80-metre dipterocarps to dense mangrove
Wildlife Centres - Semenggoh & Matang: Adult RM 10, forest. Carnivorous pitcher plants are found on the
Disabled Adult RM 5, Child 7-17 yrs RM 7, Child 6 yrs & Lintang trail. Bako also has some good white sand
under free. 50% discount for residents of Sarawak. beaches that provide perfect resing spots in between
Nature Reserves - Wind & Fairy Caves (Bau): Adult RM jungle treks. Telok Pandan Kecil is perhaps Bako’s best
5, Disabled Adult RM 3, Child 7-17 yrs RM 2, Child 6 yrs & beach, but all of the beaches are bordered by limestone
under free. Residents of Sarawak RM 1, concessions free. and sandstone clifs, and the acion of the sea has let
Commercial Filming & Photography Permit: RM 1,000. some remarkable rock formaions, such as the famous
Advance noiicaion required. Please contact Sarawak Sea Stack.
Forestry’s corporate afairs department, Tel: 610088,
www.sarawakforestry.com. If you visit Telok Assam beach near the park HQ, you
will see hundreds of swits hovering around their nests
Accommodaion Bookings: The Naional Park and at the rocks at the far end of the beach. Don’t leave
Wildlife Booking Oice (Tel: 248088, Fax: 248087), the beach ater the sun disappears behind Mount
next to the Kuching Visitors’ Informaion Centre in the Santubong. Wait another 20 minutes as the sky’s
Sarawak Tourism Complex, handles accommodaion colours oten change dramaically, providing a colourful
bookings for all naional parks and wildlife centres. backdrop to the mountain.
Campsites do not include tents - please bring your own.
For online bookings see www.sarawakforestry.com. Trail Closure: Bako’s long distance trails are occasionally
closed to trekkers for conservaion reasons so that an
Bako Naional Park area is let undisturbed for a ixed period of ime. Please
A Naional Park since 1957, Bako ofers the perfect check with the Naional Parks & Wildlife booking oice
introducion to Sarawak’s forests and wildlife. The park if you wish to know which paricular trails are closed.
covers the northern ip of the Muara Tebas peninsula,
an area of 27 sq km. Despite its seemingly small size, Accommodaion: Be careful of the monkeys - they are
Bako contains a wide range of vegetaion - swamp compulsive thieves. Bako is very popular, especially at
forest, scrub-like padang vegetaion, mangrove forest, weekends, so it is advisable to book accommodaion
dipterocarp forest, delicate clif vegetaion and more. well in advance. Accommodaion consists of Types 4, 5
In fact, at Bako it is possible to see almost every type of and 6 Forest Lodges (RM 238, RM 159 & RM 79.50) a
vegetaion found in Borneo. Bako also contains a rich Hostel (RM 42.50 per 4-bed room or RM 15.90 per bed)
variety of wildlife and a coastline covered with small and a Campsite (RM 5).
bays, coves and beaches.
The Park HQ: Upon arrival visitors must register at the
The park’s well-marked trails ofer interesing walks Park HQ. There is an informaion centre, canteen and
ranging from short strolls to serious full-day hikes, and shop at the Park HQ. The informaion centre shows
visitors are almost guaranteed to see wildlife. Long- ilms and slide shows on Bako’s wildlife, and has full
tailed macaque monkeys and silver leaf monkeys are details of all the trails and what to look out for. The
ever present, wild boar are oten found rummaging canteen serves a range of hot and cold drinks, snacks
around the park HQ, squirrels and monitor lizards are and light meals (fried rice, noodles etc.).
also common. There is every chance of seeing the rare
and unusual proboscis monkeys on trails such as Telok Geing There: Take a taxi (RM 40), Rapid Kuching Bus
Paku and Telok Delima, paricularly early morning or No 1 or bas sewa to Kampung Bako, a picturesque
late aternoon. You are more likely to see wildlife if ishing village. From there you have to charter a boat at
you keep quiet and liste carefully - you’ll probably hear the Naional Park Terminal. The return fare is RM 94 per
the crash of vegetaion before you are able to locate a boat (up to 5 people) to the ParkHQ. There will be an
proboscis monkey high up in the forest canopy. addiional boat fee if you wish to visit the Sea Stack or
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