When British adventurer James Brooke upon his arrival for the name of the animal asked what he was first over the way the locals responded: "Kuching" - Cat. Since the city is called the "cat" and is full of these. There are a few rights, but even more spurious, in the form of still images rather kitschy, distributed everywhere in the city. They come in all souvenir shops, in every imaginable shape and color and there is an even Cat Museum. Today, the state capital Kuching Sarawak and about 1 hour flight from Kota Kinabalu and about 1 1 / 2 hour flight from Kuala Lumpur is located. (This time we were smarter with our backpacks and were dressed like 5-ply to the airport). In Laos, we had taken the nice Malaysians Michael, with whom we had arranged to meet in Kuching. Unfortunately, he had to businesses is being put mainland and had to apologize. But just as we enjoyed our dinner at KFC, I was surprisingly an SMS: "Hello, welcome to Sarawak My name is Philip, I'm a friend of Michael How can i help you..." Hmm, we thought we called Philip right now and 40 minutes later were sitting with him at dinner on the market. Philip took us through the city and was away for the next 5 days our guide. He picked us up in the morning from the hostel and took us into town, we met
us from time to invite him for coffee or dinner and he was always with us. You get to know each containing a city very different if you know a local. And the whole thing goes to prove the incredible hospitality of the Malaysians that we encountered during the entire time and time again. Kathi and I also went shopping, not just devoted to us for a change, something of the culture. We were of course the rather kitschy, but very carefully designed cat museum just outside the city and know exactly know about the role of the cat in the Middle Ages and in Japanese society. These were also untenable Wissensluecken our part! In addition, we were still at the Sarawak Museum, which is once again busy intensively with the unique wildlife of the region, and the culture of various ethnic groups, especially with the Langhaeuser. There are, for example, an original replica includes genuine skull of former head hunters. When we just came out of the museum, we saw a huge run-ruled at the Merdeka Square, the city and hundreds of children running around in costumes. As at 31 Malaysian Independence Day is August and at this the main event is taking place this year in Kuching, the many school children practiced on their day off proudly for this event. A While we watched the spectacle from in yellow, red, white or blue - Dressed around galloping young people from a viewing platforms on, before we moved on - always waving, because we had some children have been discovered earlier .. . "Helloooo!". Do not miss it, we wanted to be known Sunday Market in the city, starting Saturday evening.
long time we strolled through the colorful streets and tried out some new dishes and fruits. The prettiest on the market was that is all fruit and vegetables on small colorful plastic plates neatly portioned offered. The colorful small plates bring even more color to the already very colorful world of Tropenfruechte us and vegetables are for an otherwise wueseligen Asian market but not typical - but it pleased us. The very nice atmosphere of the city is complemented by a long waterfront promenade, a kind of "old town" with market and Chinese shophouses and the many very stylish cafes that are scattered everywhere in Chinatown. There are coffee, tea and snacks at slightly higher prices, but first-class ambience. Kuching we liked a lot, yet there was the last stop in our beloved Malaysia so much so we left the city only veeeery heavy heart. 
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