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Eric and I did a lot of field work in Sarawak as well as Sabah. Kuching was a pretty cool, but fairly rustic city. I found it to be much more authentic than most of Asia, although that was in 1986, so for all I know it has been overrun by Starbucks and McDonalds at this point.

The people were totally cool and friendly. The Karst topography of the limestone makes it a really magical place. If you venture "upriver" or out into the bush, it gets really wild, really fast. Monkeys and poisonous snakes abound. Sarawak was the last place to have known cannibals and it is still reported to have a tribe or two that is known to conviently have an enemy disappear in a pot of gumbo.

There is a great book called Stranger in the Forest : On Foot Across Borneo (Vintage Departures) by Eric Hansen. Highly recommended.

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