Last night I was crying because I really miss my mother and my home. It’s hard to be separate from family even if you are in the same country but not close from home.
My home is in Marudi, Sarawak. Marudi is situated on the northern bank of the Baram roughly 80 km from Miri. It is a busy bazaar town whose traders supply most of Sarawak’s northern interior, so you are likely to bump into members of dozens of different ethnic groups here.
The town’s main attraction is Fort Hose, a Brooke-era wooden fort named for Marudi’s most famous administrator, the naturalist, ethnographer and pioneer photographer Charles Hose. The fort is nowadays a museum, featuring some of Hose’s remarkable ethnographic photographs, as well as local textiles, handicrafts and ceremonial items. To get there, walk uphill along Jln Fort from the Main Bazaar (10 min). The nearby Taman Tasik (lake park) offers excellent river views from the hilltop.
Most places to stay and eat are within a block or two of the centre. An ornamental square with a longboat monument spans from Jln Cinema down to Jln Merdeka, the riverfront drag, and all boats moor at the adjacent jetty.
Marudi used to be a stepping stone to a well known tourist destination, Gunung Mulu National Park. This is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and is famous for its caves and the expeditions that have been mounted to explore them and their surrounding rainforest. These are some pictures of Marudi:
We are descendants of Charles Hose and we are visiting Marudi in June (2016) this year.
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