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| Room facing the river |
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| My beautiful room at the Waterfront Hotel |
8th April 2018, my journey start here at The
Waterfront Hotel, Kuching. It’s a beautiful hotel, good facility, I have a
great view from my room as it facing the majestic river and a great service
too.
There are two routes that you can use to travel Borneo from
Kuching Sarawak, the first route is by via Serian highway. This route is the
original highway route which connect all towns and cities in Borneo, which is
now under construction as for the mega project “Pan-Borneo Highway”. As for the
second route, you have to travel up to Asajaya, Samarahan, and off to Pusa
Ferry point then proceed to main road.
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Batang Sadong Bridge |
At 1000HRS, I checked out and departed from waterfront hotel
to Sibu, I will be covering at least 340KM. What a surprised, few bikers will also riding up to sibu using this
route. Along the way, I met the BIBB Members at Batang Sadong Bridge. So I part
up and joined the pack to Sibu. Reaching to the first ferry point which was the
biggest ferry crossing in Sarawak, it took around 20 minutes crossing the big
river Batang lupar from the ferry
point to Jalan Meludam. The view from the ferry was beautiful and calm, the
only thing which will not be safe is during monsoon season. Once we’re back on
our bikes we faced a bumpy ride, as the road was not smooth and half of it is
still under construction.
So our journey continue to the 2nd ferry point,
that is the Pusa Ferry point in about 45KM from Jalan Meludam and will be crossing
the sungai Saribas towards to Pusa
town itself, then I was been informed to stop to have refreshment at Pusa.
This gentlemen is a friend to one of the bikers. We were welcomed just like
VIP’s, the warm hospitality remind you of home and they treat us like part of
the family. It instantly took away the exhausted feeling, we enjoyed the
hospitality that this gentlemen give us. At 1445hrs we are back on our bikes,
start refilling the gas and hit the road once again from Pusa.
Before riding off, the we split into two group, as you
can see in the picture, the Red Mark route will be going up away
from the “Pan-borneo” highway, and the blue mark route will lead back to the high
way of Sri Aman – Sarikei Road. After decision making, I will be using the Red
mark route which I never traveled to. As we said goodbye and ride safe, 8
bikers including myself will be taking the red mark route, and 6 other bikers will be using
the blue mark route towards sibu. A BMW S1K, 2 unit of Kawasaki Z9, 2 Yamaha MT’s, 2
Kawasaki Versys and 1 sport tourer.
An unfamiliar road from Batang Saribas road
–Krian road was around 22KM, the road is smooth, and a long stretch of road, I
was in front leading 7 other bikes behind me. And our speed was around 120KM/h
and I was hoping the Racer riders to cut me off, but they are left behind, as I
speed up to 160KM/h still the racer still didn’t cut me off. Along the straight less
bumpy road I saw a dead end with a river ahead. To be honest I thought we were
traveling at the wrong road.
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| Krian Ferry Point |
26KM from Krian Ferry point we came to the intersection, there are an unknown road from Jalan Kabong to
small Selalang village. If we go straight we
go directly to Roban town and back to the highway, one of the biker said the
Selalang Village road is new, high ground roads and corners, I was excited to
hear that. So we all agree to travel to the unknown road.
In the unknown road we enjoyed our ride, the never ending
corners, the view, the road is new smooth as a baby cheeks. I was thrilled on
the road and screaming “weeeehhoooo” when I did the corners, couldn’t stop on
the road to take photos as we were catching up time. 18KM along the road, we
reach to another intersection, as I checked my gps, we are off to Jalan Selalang at 15KM and back to the main road.
At around 1715hrs we reach to the petrol station at the
small junction between Sarikei – Sibu and Sarikei Town main Junction. As few
bikers has a warning fuel indicator blinking, and we couldn’t made it to fill
up our bikes at the current petrol station because it was closed at 1700hrs.
In Sarikei, I was hoping to directly ride to Sibu as the
sun is set down to darkness, but one of the bikers offered us to stayed awhile and
have dinner with his family, because his wife called him said that the food is
ready for us. We couldn’t say no, we only had light refreshment in Pusa. We all
had local dish of the Melanau food, fresh water prawn and the Sarawak legendary Ice cream!
Another great feeling from a lovely family that provide the food and warm
hospitality, Thank you so much Abg Zulhajiji and family in Sarikei.
At 2030HRS now only 5 bikes will continue the trip back to
sibu. 58KM along the way via Bintangor, it was dark, lucky for us there’s not
much of a traffic, an advantage of riding at night time. We reach Sibu before
2230hrs. I was glad once I reach to my hotel, I said thank you to those who
ride with me along the way, unpacked my luggage from the bike and check in. It
was great along the way, get my rest and ready to hit the road on the next day
to Bintulu. RED ROUTE (DISTANCE FROM EVERY CHECKPOINT)
- Ferry Pusa Checkpoint - Ferry Krian Checkpoint = 22KM
- Ferry Krian Checkpoint - Jalan Kabong = 26KM
- Jalan Kabong - unknown road - Selalang = 18KM
- Selalang Road - Main Road = 14KM
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