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If you only have one day in Kuching and want to get up close with nature, Bako National Park should be at the very top of your list. Established in 1957, it is Sarawak's oldest national park — and arguably one of the most accessible wild experiences in all of Borneo. Despite its compact size (just 27 km²), Bako packs in an incredible seven different ecosystem types: beach, cliff, mangrove swamp, peat swamp, kerangas forest, mixed dipterocarp forest, and grassland. It's like a condensed version of the entire Borneo landscape. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Photos from the park [image: 1779770950255-bako_rock.jpg] The iconic sea stack rock formations — Bako's most photographed sight Source: Borneo mobilegrapher (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA) [image: 1779770950586-bako_panorama.jpg] Teluk Assam beach — the first thing you see when you step off the boat Source: Borneo mobilegrapher (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA) [image: 1779770951024-bako_trail.jpg] Walking into the rainforest trail — lush greenery surrounds you Source: Orizan (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY) [image: 1779770951430-bako_mangrove.jpg] Mangrove ecosystem along the boardwalk — great for spotting wildlife Source: Wikimedia Commons ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ️ Practical Info Address: Bako National Park, Kuching, Sarawak (about 40km from Kuching — take a car to Kampung Bako jetty, then 20 min boat ride) Opening Hours: Park open daily 8:00AM - 5:00PM Best to arrive at the jetty by 9AM Fees: Malaysian: Adult RM10 / Child RM5 Foreign tourists: Adult RM20 / Child RM7 Boat round trip: ~RM40/person (RM30 for Malaysians) ️ Trails 16 colour-coded trails, from 30 min to several hours: Telok Tajor Trail (waterfall, ~1.5 hrs) 🟡 Paku Trail (easiest, family-friendly) Lintang Trail (full loop, ~5 hrs, all ecosystems) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ What people say Bako consistently rates 4-5 stars across platforms "One of the best national parks I've visited for wildlife! Saw proboscis monkeys feeding in the mangroves around 4pm, plus giant monitor lizards walking around fearlessly." — Singaporean traveler, TripAdvisor "Despite being Sarawak's smallest national park, the biodiversity is incredible. Saw pitcher plants, flying lizards along the trails!" — West Malaysian visitor, Google Reviews "Took my kids — our 4-year-old had no issues. Lots of monkeys that will snatch your food. Boat ride is about 20 min, can get exciting when waves are big." — Kuching local family "This level of rainforest and beach experience at these prices is incredible value. If you want to see proboscis monkeys but can't make it to Kinabatangan, Bako is your answer." — Backpacker ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Why go? Less than 1 hour from Kuching city (car + boat) Incredible wildlife: proboscis monkeys, silver leaf monkeys, macaques, monitor lizards 16 trails for all fitness levels Overnight accommodation available Exceptional value ️ Bring mosquito repellent! Last boat returns around 3-4PM — plan your timing. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Website: https://bakonationalpark.com Have you been to Bako? Share your experience below

如果你在古晋只有一天时间想亲近大自然，Bako National Park 绝对是最值得去的选择之一！ Bako 是砂拉越最老的国家公园（1957年就成立了），但最厉害的是——它面积虽然不大（27km²），但竟然包含了7种不同的生态系统：海滩、悬崖、红树林、泥炭沼泽、龙脑香森林、heath森林和草原。可以说，在Borneo能看到的大部分植被类型，这里一次过看完 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ️ 看看实拍图 [image: 1779770950255-bako_rock.jpg] 标志性的海蚀岩地貌，Bako最经典的画面 来源：Borneo mobilegrapher (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA) [image: 1779770950586-bako_panorama.jpg] Teluk Assam海滩 — 下船第一眼就是这个画面 来源：Borneo mobilegrapher (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA) [image: 1779770951024-bako_trail.jpg] 走进雨林小径，满眼都是绿色 来源：Orizan (Wikimedia Commons, CC BY) [image: 1779770951430-bako_mangrove.jpg] 红树林生态，退潮时可以走进去探索 来源：Wikimedia Commons ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ️ 实用资讯 地址：Bako National Park, Kuching, Sarawak（从古晋市区约40km，需先搭车到Kampung Bako码头再坐20分钟船） 开放时间： 公园每日开放 8:00AM - 5:00PM 建议早上出发，9点前到码头最佳 收费： 大马公民：成人RM10 / 孩童RM5 外国游客：成人RM20 / 孩童RM7 船只来回：约RM40/人（大马人RM30来回） ️ 必玩路线 公园有16条颜色标记的步道，从半小时到数小时不等： Telok Tajor Trail（瀑布路线，约1.5小时） 🟡 Paku Trail（最轻松，适合家庭） Lintang Trail（最大圈，约5小时走完全部生态系统） ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 去过的人怎么说？ 综合了多个旅游平台的用户评价，大家给Bako的评价普遍是4-5星 「Bako是我去过最好找野生动物的国家公园之一！下午4点多看到了长鼻猴在红树林觅食，还有大蜥蜴走来走去，完全不怕人。一定要留到傍晚。」 —— 新加坡游客, TripAdvisor 「虽然是全砂最小的国家公园，但生态多样性真的太丰富了。走在trail上看到各种猪笼草，还有飞蜥蜴！海滩的水很清，可以游泳。」 —— 西马游客, Google Reviews 「带孩子去的，4岁的娃完全没问题。猴子超级多，会抢东西吃，记得把食物收好。船程约20分钟，海浪大时会有点刺激。」 —— Kuching本地家庭 「这个价位能体验到这种级别的雨林和海滩，简直是超值。如果你想看长鼻猴但又没时间去Kinabatangan，来Bako就够了。」 —— 外国背包客 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 推荐理由 古晋市区出发不到1小时可达（含车+船） 超容易看到野生动物：长鼻猴、银叶猴、长尾猕猴、大蜥蜴、野猪 16条步道深浅随意选 有住宿可以过夜（需提前预订） 性价比极高，CP值碾压很多东南亚国家公园 ️ 注意：防蚊液一定要带！码头最后一班船回程约3-4PM，记得安排好时间。 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 官网：https://bakonationalpark.com 你对Bako有什么印象或经历？留言分享吧！