Move to promote cruises on Sarawak’s Baram River

MIRI: Batang Baram, Sarawak’s second-longest river, may be the next waterway for the promotion of river-cruise expeditions for tourists in Sarawak.

This will become a reality only if the Rajang River cruise makes a successful debut in July.

Sarawak Tourism Board (STB) chief executive officer Gracie Geikie said the board had received queries from a number of interested parties to begin the Batang Baram River cruise.

The parties felt, with the second cruise, tourists could explore the Baram hinterland and the colourful culture of the orang ulus, she added.

Speaking to reporters here recently, Geike said that interest on the second river began after a move by Myanmar-based Irrawaddy Fotilla Company to start the Rajang River Cruise on July 1.

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