Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
Yewon Money Changer
(8 Jln Tukang Besi; 8.30am or 9am-5pm Mon-Sat)
Changes
cash. Look for the gold-on-red sign.
Getting There & Away
Air
MASwings (
www.maswings.com.my
) has inexpensive services to Kuching, Bintulu, Miri
and Kota Kinabalu (KK).
Malaysia Airlines
(
www.malaysiaairlines.com
)
flies to Kuala
Lumpur (KL), and
AirAsia
(
www.airasia.com
)
flies to Kuching (40 minutes), KL and Jo-
hor Bahru (across the causeway from Singapore).
Boat
At the entrance to the
Express Ferry Terminal
(Jln Kho Peng Long, Terminal
Penumpang Sibu; )
, ferry company booths indicate departure times using large clocks.
Be on board 15 minutes before departure time - boats have been known to set sail early.
TO KAPIT & BELAGA
'Flying coffin' express boats head up the Batang Rejang to Kapit (RM20 to RM30,
140km, 2½ to three hours) once or twice an hour from 5.45am to 2.30pm. Water levels at
the Pelagus Rapids permitting (for details, call Mr Wong at 013-806 1333), one boat a
day, departing at 5.45am, goes all the way to Belaga, 155km upriver from Kapit (RM55,
11 hours).
TO KUCHING
Unless you fly, the quickest way to get from Sibu to Kuching is by boat.
Ekspress Baha-
gia
( in Kuching 016-889 3013, 082-412246, in Sibu 016-800 5891, 084-319228)
runs
a daily express ferry to/from Kuching's Express Wharf (RM45, five hours) that passes
through an Amazonian dystopia of abandoned sawmills and rust-bucket tramp steamers.
Departures are 11.30am from Sibu and at 8.30am from Kuching. It's a good idea to book a
day ahead.
Bus
Sibu's
long-distance bus station
(Jln Pahlawan)
is about 3.5km northeast of the centre
along Jln Pedada. A variety of companies send buses to Kuching (RM50 to RM60, seven
to eight hours, regular departures between 6.15am and 4am), Miri (RM50, 6½ hours,
roughly hourly from 6am to 3.30am) and Bintulu (RM25, 3¼ hours, roughly hourly from
6am to 3.30am).
