Far to a small village, located about 15 km from Bau town and 80 km from Kuching City, Serikin is the week-end heaven market for local and foreign tourists. Every weekend, it attracts thousand of people with numerous selection of unique stuff from Sarawak and Indonesia. All stuffs such as batik, handicrafts, herbal products (jamu), electrical items, external medicine, electronic items, jungle produce, exotic meats, antique items, clothes, perfume, male and female accessories, toys and home decoration can be bought in cheap price, if you know how to bargain well. From Serikin, tourists can peep into Indonesia by a bike-ride or motorcycle-ride called as 'ojek' of 15 minutes via 'jalan gajah'.
Serikin is located near to Kalimantan's barrier, the sellers are from Indonesia and local people itself. The weather is hot so my advice: wear a light shirt, bring your umbrella or buy a cowboy or picnic hat. It's good to remember that you should browse first before buying and use all tricks, your bargain strategies or persuasion skills in order to get a very cheap price. If the seller still refusing your price, step back. Later on, they will agree with you, and that's the last trick. Besides, beware with some rare-item sellers. You might get cheated by them.
So, when you off to Serikin, be wise and economical buyers. And, don't forget your umbrella. :-)
8 in the morning, the car engine is running. Ready for a small journey to Serikin, Sarawak. It took 2 hours and half to get there. The road was still under construction, waiting for the next phase of upgrading. So, the road is half smoothy, half bumpy, dusty and of course, pebbles are everywhere- don't cry for your car.
From Kuching, a little bit of road jam's pinch and sour driver-attitude is annoying. But don't get cranky. Please look out from your car window, you will and surely love the natural view or stone hills and humpy mountain around Bau, the beautiful natural site of Wind Cave, Blue Lake, Fairy Cave, and few rivers with peculiar names such as River Jonjang, River Noren, River Progang, River Podam, River Duyoh, River Pedid, River Tubah and River Spora. There's a lot of fruit trees along the road, you can buy local fruits in good price.
Then, finally, around 10 and half, Serikin welcomed us with the smell of satay...oh~ what a life. And it begins with...
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| Crowd people...you can never avoid sweats, skin irritation and of course, being shopaholic. |
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| being a photographer...well, you can never say 'no' to yourself when you arrived at somewhere like this. |
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| The shopping tour...of course, you should look first before buying. There's a lot of stuff to look for so prepare your pocket~ |
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| Watching 'tukang ojek' on the street while buying things (bought kerepek and keropok only...hahaha) |
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| In the end, we off back to Bau Town and having lunch at Siti Cafe. Oh dear, 'sayur paku' tasted so delicious~ |
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