Sematan. Bako Trips

We do celebrate Hari Gawai/Dayak in Sarawak and Sabah. Thus, we fortunate to have a 4 days break during that festival (weekend + 2 days public holidays).

We went to Sematan beach (Again!) and Bako National Park for day trips.


This is Sematan town, a very small fish village located 100km from Kuching. Just in recent years, it starts turn into a new tourist spot because of its blue sea and white sand. So far it is the best beach i've ever seen in Sarawak.

Can see how blue is the sea

Handcraft made from shells


Cows resting and having fun under the palm trees


Palm Beach Resort


The beach view from the Palm Beach Resort

Then our second day trip was the Bako National Park. This is one of the several national parks in Kuching, and my second time visit this place. Last time was with my SBC colleagues, Connie and Adrienne. We followed the same trail as the first time i went, which was Pantai Kecial trail that took us 1 1/2 hr of jungle trekking from the beach. This was the first thing came into our sight when we reached Pantai Kecial by speedboat:

The famous rock: A look-alike Crocodile Head

This is the Pantai Kecil (Kecil Beach) view from the hill

We got to climb up from the beach as this is the only way route back to the HQ from the beach


Sightseeing from the top

A closer look on the competely dehydrated rock
(due to overexposal to the sun)

When this view came into sight, means we've reached the HQ finally!
(After an hour of trekking that totally exposed ourselves under the hot sun)

The map at the HQ park

We've seen the same map whenever we reached the junctions during jungle trekking. But never as detailed as this in HQ park which showed us the actual distance from each spot to the HQ.
Our trail is about 3.0 Km from HQ but >50% of it was open area (no trees can hide us from the hot Sun). If you can withstand the super hot weather, this maybe a good place to explore. Luckily i didn't get sunburnt this time because of the sun protection cream. If i don't apply any sun cream, i am sure my skin will be peeled off the next few days after that trip. Can see how damageable of your skin if you expose yourself longer under this condition.

Both places were worth to be visited again. So i think i will come back again, especially for the seafood and blue sea at Sematan beach, and the sun spa but easy trails at Bako national park. Hope you guys enjoy the photos... all were mainly taken by Iphone which were not so clear actually. =)