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Hilton Batang Ai Longhouse Tour (3D/2N)
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Day 01 (L)
In the morning depart from your hotel in the city and proceed for 3D/2N Hilton Batang Ai Longhouse Tour, start your journey to Batang Ai, along the Pan Borneo Highway, passing through the beautiful sceneries of rural villages, towns and gardens of pepper, rubber and rice fields. You will travel 275 km by road, with a few stops along the way: the first one is in Serian town, where you will stop for refreshments. You may wish to make some last minutes shopping for insect repellent or for gifts for the Ibans at Serian. You can also visit a fascinating native fruit and vegetable market. The other stop includes a visit to the pepper farm and a stop at a place where you can observe plenty of wild orchids and also pitcher plants, insect eating plants. The last stop will be at "Lachau", a small upcountry Chinese village, where you will stop for lunch. ( Here barter trade still exist between the natives of Kalimantan, the Chinese shop owners and the natives of Sarawak.). After lunch, we proceed to the final stage of the journey and arrive at the beautiful Batang Ai Lake. At the jetty, you will take a ferry/boat across the lake to reach the Hilton Batang Ai Longhouse Resort, the ferry/boat ride will take approximately 15-20 mins. After checking in, the rest of the day is free at your own leisure, to enjoy the many facilities at this resort and overnight

Day 02 (B/L)
Breakfast in the resort.
Morning, depart from the resort where you will board the longboat with an amazingjourney through the lake and the crystal clear streams to the visit the natives of Borneo. On arrival at the longhouse, you will be taken for a tour around the longhouse, to meet the natives and their families. The Ibans will then sound their gongs and perform their traditional Iban War Dance. One is often invited to join in..don’t be shy..it can be fun..even if you don’t understand their language. Don’t leave without tasting their rice wine called ”Tuak”. Native style lunch will served by the riverbank. Before back to the resort the Iban will give you a presentation with their ancient weapon, the blowpipe. The tour ends with another longboat ride across the lake and back to Batang Ai Hilton Longhouse Resort for overnight.

Day 03 (B/L)
Breakfast in the resort
After breakfast today, you depart from the resort by ferry/boat to the jetty and return to Kuching city via the same rout as day 01 with a stopover in Lachau for lunch and transferring back to your hotel in city.

     
   
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