Miri Day 2- Lambir Hills National Park and Miri City Fan

We decided to go to Lambir Hills National Park. We had read good things about this Park in the Lonely Planets book and so we thought we'd check it out. There are a number of routes you can go. Two of them (I think) lead to waterfalls and there is one long one which reaches the summit. Since we had Yusuf with us we thought we'll get to the first waterfall and see how it goes from there.

The Park did remind us of Bukhit Shahbander but it was much bigger and the cicadas much louder (see video to hear them).

It took us about 20 minutes to reach the first waterfall. It was breathtaking!

The following is a video of the rainforest but I took it because of the noise one of the cicada was making. It was so incredibly loud. The video doesn't capture just how loud it was. We had never heard anything like it. I tried finding it on the tree but couldn't for the life of me work out exactly where the noise was coming from. The rainforest in Borneo is constantly like this- its never quiet.

We did start on the second trail and got quite a way in. The rainforest in this part was very different from the first waterfall. There were so many different types of birds that we could hear. We also heard monkeys and something that may have been a deer. But as we were walking along I heard something that (to me ) sounded like a growl, like a wild cat growl and nearly died! After hearing it again Zaheer informed me that it was in fact a wood pecker! I couldn't work out how he thought that sounded like a wood pecker but it calmed me down for a while anyway! We didn't make it to the end of this trail as Yusuf was getting quite tired and also due to our impeccable timing we were there at midday and it was HOT! So we turned around but I think we had seen enough.

After the Park we went to the Miri City Fan. It is a fan shaped (duh!) park with lots of small themed parks, a public swimming pool, a library and other things. It was heaven to us in that Brunei had absoloutley nothing like this. The weather was beautiful too (as we went late afternoon) and for a moment we felt like we were in England!

There are loads of trees like this everywhere.

This was part of the Islamic Gardens.

Yusuf was happy too!

We saw turtles/terrapins in the pond!! Very exciting!

And lastly, this was outside the Public Library. I thought it was beautiful. I was also very excited at seeing a public library as this is again something Brunei doesn't have.

Next stop- Niah Caves!!!