Fort Margherita on the north bank of the Sarawak River was completed in 1879 by Charles Brooke, the 2nd Rajah of Sarawak to guard his capital city, Kuching against pirate attacks. Named after Charles Brooke's wife Ranee Margaret Alice Lili de Windt, it was built in a late English renaissance style. The guns have never been fired in anger. The Fort has been under 4 different administrations, the Brooke Dynasty, Imperial Japan, the British Colonial government and currently the Malaysian State Government of Sarawak.
Nice little fortress. Did you try to find any pirate treasure buried around there ?
ReplyDeleteVery nicely conserved! Have to go there if I have the chance.
ReplyDeleteHaha no buried treasure I'm afraid. The pirates never came so no pirates, no treasure.
ReplyDeleteYup, very well conserved but slightly off the beaten track and not exactly on the tourist map. Still, not that hard to get to if you know where it is. Take a 40-50cent boat ride across the river from the town and walk through a malay kampung and school to the top of the hill next to the state assembly building and there you'll find it hidden surrounded on 3 sides by overgrowth.
So, it explains why it is well conserved if nobody attacked it ! :)
ReplyDeletehahaha good point.
ReplyDeleteVery nice!
ReplyDeleteWould make a good baseball ground.
ReplyDeletelmao. Too small.
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