The foreground of this picture is a village called “Kampung Gersik”, whereas the background is Kuching city. In between, there is a river which was hidden in the picture above.

This place is quite high, therefore we can see the buildings across the river.

- Kampung Gersik (right across Kuching Waterfront).

- This is somewhere not far from “Fort Margherita” but our car cannot reach there. Here is a no through road.

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Exploring and Driving through Villages

We explored around and discovered a way to bypass the Tun Salahuddin Bridge (Formerly Tanah Puteh Bridge) toll plaza, and we found quite a number of villages across the Sarawak River along Jalan Brooke (Brooke Road).

I drove towards the toll bridge from Bintawa, and was expecting to pay the toll, but I found that there is a junction after we crossed the river but before we reached the toll gates, I turned into that junction and here started our adventurous tour exploring the “kampung road”.

In Malay, the word “kampung” means village. The entire journey was on the Brooke Road, but we striked through 5 villages named Kampung Pulo Hilir, Kampung Semarang, Kampung Panglima Seman, Kampung Surabaya, and Kampung Gersik. It took us 20 minutes for 5 kilometers only because I have to drive slowly in the villages.

We saw some villagers setup mini stalls right in front of their houses selling food, we saw kids playing and hanging around. Little boys were playing with little boys and girls were playing with girls. Some of them walked along the road. We saw schools, clinics and other infrastructures.

We were taking risk actually because we were not sure if one of the village were a dead end, then we have to turn our head back to get out. We didn’t know where we were. We just continued moving forward without looking back. 20 minutes seemed like an hour. SiewPeng looked a bit worried. What happen if the village road is hundreds of kilometers, and where were we going to get out to??? Finally and luckily we reached the area where we can see the Kuching Waterfront from across the river at Kampung Gersik. After taking these photos, we went back to the Kuching city using the “normal” road that we usually take.

We have been to Jalan Gersik before, that’s why we know the way to go back to Kuching using a faster road instead of kampung road, and we do not have to pay any toll even we get across the bridge :p . Thanks to Wilson who brought us here months ago to see the night view of Kuching city. It is a nice place to view the Kuching city especially at night.

Should I call this a planned trip or non-planned trip? We did not plan which direction we should take, but we planned to explore.

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Beside the river, we can see this. Let me zoom in for you.

The houses are just next to the river.

Can you guess which of the following is correct?
A. Kite in the city.
B. Kite in the village.

It look like an abandoned or uncompleted structure in a mini park somewhere at Kampung Gersik.

Since Kuching is the city of cats, we can see cats everywhere. This is a black and white cat at Kampung Gersik.

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OK, let me tell you the answer now. The answer is B. But I have a better answer than that, C. Kite on a tree. :p