Salim inn, sibu

Hotel review:

Modern furnished rooms. Modern bathroom w spacious shower. Very clean. Modern lock.

front side facing main road. Call them 3 days before arrival if you want a quiet room at the back, otherwise you can change room later.

Next door are many restaurants.

Taxi from boat 22rm.
friendly helpfull staff. Free printing of volharding passes.

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Today I came back from Kapit. Booked the 13.45 boat, Bahagia, which went exactly 13.45. This was not a luxurious boat as I had on my way to it, where business class had very comfy chairs. No this boat , I guess from another company, had old chairs, very cramped for a white long lady. I was glad we arrived after 3 hours. 

Every class has its own toilet... But of course economy class people know where to go.

many often new longhouses along the river, near areas with removed trees and erosion. I heard some people, often politicians, make a lot of many of selling all the trees. Those same politicians and other government officials from that money living in small palaces. You see a lot of big empty or seldom used governmental buildings everywhere, even in kapit. Those palaces you see everywhere too, of course on a nice location.

Although I could have visited kapit,s museums until 18 hours on earlier days, I choose to visit them on Saturday morning. But my Malaysian is not that good, they were closed today, so what else to do until 13.00 hours then sipping ice coffees, enjoying a Kampua special (vegetable soup and mihoon with meat) and another ice coffee with a view on the busy weekend market. Today everybody of the area seemed to be in town, cars park double everywhere. Children throwing balls in holes in hope to win a fluffy toy. Grown ups putting cans on coloured squares in hope to win extra tea or lemonade cans. 

I WALked a few more times over the central market, studied the chickens still alive and those slaughtered, same for pigs. Interesting to see how a stick with a plastic bag keeps the flies away from the t, when wifting it.

Bought some interesting looking Malaysian kind of cookies, snacks, baked bananas and cocos fried bread, to eat on the boat.

Got a lot of looks, smiled and hellot back.

On the boat I was again the only white person. They study me when I don't look, I study them. Children and old people the most curious.

It was a somewhat cloudy day today, what gives temperatures of 27C. During rain I ate a second breakfast :-)

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I just ate some unbelievable good babi atam. I picked out a restaurant where I saw some people eating what I wanted to see. The waitress did not understand English and pointing at the food at that table did not help either. Luckily one of the eaters did speak English and helped out. She also told that I wanted that and that but only for 1 person, not 6. You guess I got for more then one. I especially loved the meat, crispy pig meat, roasted and probably marinated before. Why can't I make my meat like that?

Well before I left I asked her what the name of is was. Not understood. Then I said, babi pangang??? No, it was babi atam.
and the bill was not as high as aspected. First time I also got a plate full of veggies, because I was already wondering my lack of vitamins here.
there is no cutted up fruit for sale here either and a vegetable soup often has less then 1 spoon of veggies.

No tuktuk here in Sarawak either, only real taxis without a meter.