The Sibu-Mukah journey used to take 1 hour 30 minutes a few years back. Now from Sibu-Selangau it's 45 minutes and Selangau-Mukah it's 2 hour's ++. The despicable road condition is well-known for frequent Sibuian and Mukahan travelers, so bad that Sibu doctors advised pregnant mothers from Mukah to either just take the 2 hours boat journey from Dalat or to just stay in Mukah. No 4x4 is safe, not even buses as many of these vehicles can be seen decommissioned and parked by the side of whatever is left of the road. Hell, there's even a road collapse a few minutes after the first ladang that was immediately repaired, saving thousands of locals from being cut off. Here's a few pictures from the infamous Back Breaker road to show how bad Mukah road is, and to ward off would-be first time travelers from becoming the next victims.
Kancils, Vivas and even Hiluxes would be ravaged in the treacherous roads ahead. Haha good luck!
Level 1 Easy difficulty pot-holes. Bicycles won't pass this though 
Level 2 Medium difficulty puddled holes. Causes nasty turbulence to any vehicles 
Level 3 Hard difficulty sink holes by the roadside. Careful or that Kancil might turn-turtle to the side
Level 4 Insane big assed craters. Even the drivers of the biggest lorries in Sarawak will stop, contemplate, think, analyze and only then go around these monstrous holes
Level 5 Deadly Loch Ness-like lochs. Not so scary until it sucks your wheels into the abyss
Level 6 WTF Flowing tream in the middle of the road. A sign that this part of the road is breaking apart soon, slippery too
Level 7 OMG the road is below sea level. MAY CONDEMN YOUR ENGINES
Level 99 Jalan putus la! A completely devastated part of the road that is being reconstructed. Damn I think this is equivalent to Vietnam or Iraq during their wartimes... Now I'm not sure whether real actions have been taken, and whether the complaints from the rakyat is being heard, but one thing for sure is this;
PLEASE BUILD A NEW ROAD FAST! PEDIH BEKAWANG AKOU!
1 comment:
walao~ i never been to mukah~ looking at that road just make the sibu-bintulu road seems so much nicer~ i bet frequent user of that road who can afford 4x4 is edi expert in analyze which 4x4 perform the best on those road edi, really put the 4x4 in the real usage~
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