Our motto will and always be, arrive as a guest and leave as a friend. Our goal is to provide you with unique travel experience and to strive to give you what you want. We provide all kayaking, rafting and caving equipment and serve hearty and home-cooked food to our guests using locally sourced ingredients and our traditional recipes. Our kayaking tours include the use of top of the line double polyethylene sit-on kayaks from Perception Kayak Designs. Our kayak trips are guided by experienced and enthusiastic certified Rescue 3 International Swiftwater Rescue Technician. Semadang Kayaking offers a wide variety of all-inclusive day trips adventure tours in Upper Sarawak River or locally known as Semadang River, ranging from river kayaking, bamboo rafting, caving and jungle trekking. If you want to add excitement and adventure to your life you’ve come to the right place! Kayaking tours can be combined with a visit to the Semangoh Wildlife Center to see the orangutans, or with a jungle trek.OUTDOOR ADVENTURE & ACTIVITIES IN KUCHING Rain or sunshine, dry or wet season, if you are in Kuching and have a day to spare, do try this amazing experience: you will not be disappointed and will feel the real adventure. We felt cold and exhausted but happy: we all looked at each other and you could tell there was a satisfaction feeling at having been at one with nature, nearly powerless against it, and at having reached destination safely. At the jetty, the staff was there to help us disembark our kayaks and lead us to a parking area where James was waiting with his minivan. The rive current got stronger and the full force of nature was against us, soaking us wet and making us struggle to paddle the last 50 meters. The rain was so think and violent that paddling in itself was an issue, let alone keeping the eyes opened. We then paddled past some kids swimming naked and Biko informed we were pretty near the ending point, though the black menacing clouds that had been approaching from behind did not give us enough time: the sky opened when we were at only 200m from arrival. On to the second leg of the journey we endured more rain, saw a baby monitor lizard on the shore, marveled at amazing rock formations and had another break. The sky finally opened up a little, I rejoined the group and we soon stopped for a break, parking the kayaks in a sandy beach that marks the entrance of the Bidayu village of Kampung Danu. Nature is at its best when it rains so I did not mind getting wet. I motioned the group to paddle forward and stopped a while to listen to the sound of nature, to smell the vegetation and to enjoy the silence. The alternate bursts of heavy rain forced me to take refuge under the thick canopy of trees and overhanging bamboos growing along the river bank, more than anything to ensure my camera did not get wet. I looked up at huge and tall durian trees with spiky fruits, observing the clouds building up and eventually discharging a wall of water that caught us unprepared. The kayaks bumped into rocks and occasionally got stuck in sandy banks, where we had to get off and push it out into deeper water. I paddled nonchalantly as we passed a few small rapids we negotiated small whirlpools, avoiding logs sticking out of the water. James told us that we were so close to the border with Indonesia that trekkers can easily find themselves in a different country without even realizing it. There the limestone mountains get higher, with impressive pointed peaks. James stopped at the Semangoh Wildlife Center to pick up a family of four from the USA taking part in the tour before heading towards hilly Padawan, an area where Bidayu tribes live. The drive that followed was smooth the road was flanked by lush vegetation and the traffic was scarce. He suggested stopping in an eatery to have breakfast, a suggestion that I happily embraced! The sun was timidly attempting a feeble appearance from behind a curtain of black clouds as we sat and ordered coffee and fried dough from a food stand in a residential area on the outskirts of town, a welcome respite for my hungry belly. James is a kind middle aged man of Chinese origins, talkative and friendly. James the driver turned up at 8,30, we made introductions and we were soon on our way on his brand new Chinese-made14-seater minivan.
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