Kuching Chinatown & Kuching Little India

My travel in Kuching city continued from the Waterfront to the Chinatown & beyond... However with rather limited time, I had to breeze through these places.

Nevertheless, I managed to see a fair bit of the heart of the city.

Kuching Chinatown

One of the places not to be missed is to walk along the Kuching Chinatown.... which is at Carpenter Street and its other lanes.

The road is quite bustling in the day, with many types of shops & businesses. For tourists, there are quite a lot of good food here (more of that to come).

Some of the lanes are quite unique - very narrow, yet the buildings well taken care... not something most people would associate with small lanes.

The place is quite nice for photography as it captures the heart of Kuching.

One of the temples along Carpenter Street is the Hiang Thian Siang Ti Temple.

I was lucky to have taken this near the Chinese New Year period as the temple was decorated with beautiful lanterns.

Not far off is the Kuching's old courthouse. The place here is serene, with its shady trees.

The courthouse currently houses the Sarawak Tourism Board Information Centre (btw, do u think it feels a bit like an old school? :) ).

The courthouse seems to be like the border - as beyond it is the Little India.

Kuching Little India

Gantry to Little India.

This is a colourful street, catered to both locals & tourists. Tourists would enjoy the tshirt shops here with its unique designs. Despite my rush, I did have a look hehe!

And interestingly, there is this passage. Curious, I walked through it.

It lead to the Jalan Gambir, the road by the waterfront. I find the shophouses here quite unique. Btw, there was a mosque in the lane.

If Chinatown is bustling, so is this area... with many fruit stalls, grocery shops and some stalls selling spices & herbs.

I thought this seller selling squids (sotong) was quite unique. They are quite large!

My time was soon up, as I had to rush to catch the flight. If given more time, I would have loved to spent more time - seeing the daily lives of the city folk.

But my little time there was good enough - seeing some parts of the multi-racial Kuching/ Sarawak.... And I mean some parts, because I found out that there's so much more to multi-racial in Kuching just the day prior. And that's up next :)