Miri Travel Guide

Miri is located in the extreme northeast of Sarawak, the Land of Hornbills overlooking the South China Sea. It is the largest town in Sarawak and the neighbour to the oil rich kingdom of Brunei. Being part of the same neighbourhood gives Miri a share in some of the petroleum deposits of the region - and after oil was fist struck here in 1910, the town graduated from being referred to as the ‘Grand Old Lady’ to the ‘Oil Town’.
Miri’s attractions include such delights as the Brighton Beach, Miri River, the Grand Old Lady (Miri’s first oil well) on Canada Hill, the promenade at Taman Selera with its open-air stalls that serve up fantastic seafood delicacies and Mulu National Park, a little distance away.  Limestone pinnacles in Mulu National Park

Along the harbour and the waterfront are located a number of shops that sell locally made handcrafted items and exotic stuff from the rainforests of Sarawak. Miri also has a thriving nightlife that recommends it to oil workers looking to spend some of their hard earned cash as well as hordes of revellers from neighbouring Brunei.

Miri prospered on the wealth of natural resources around - earnings from oil and timber have transformed a village into boomtown into the headquarters of the oil and oil refining industry into the main revenue generator for Sarawak. But what makes Miri the focus of the tourist trade is the role it plays as the gateway to Sarawak and its proximity to the best that Sarawak has to offer in terms of national parks, rivers, forests, diving sites and adventure tourism.