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Sepilok Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Sepilok, Malaysia
Monkeying around
This is a top pick! ... and it was painful to have to cross it without detouring. It won't be long before it is as crassly touristed as the rest of Malaysia, and it would have been great to see it before that happened. Oh well, i'm sure there'll be a doco I can watch instead on ...
Hanging out in the jungle
This is a top pick! ... off a crane, I'm not sure it was supposed to be a funny film but we certainly laughed. Thankfully we eventually reached Sepilok and checked into our lovely jungle room and then headed over to the Orangutan Centre. Injured and orphaned orangutans are ...
Orange Tans
This is a top pick! ... recover from Mount K (in the end I wasn't able to walk down stairs properly for 4 days!). I stayed in a place called the Sepilok Jungle Resort, which was beutiful but was run by the most miserable staff that I've ever come across, barely a smile between ...
Into The Jungle We Go
This is a top pick! ... into palm oil plantations. Concrete evidence of the rainforest destruction continued for at least 100km. But then we arrived in Sepilok. We turned off the roundabout to find a dream jungle resort. After a mile of mud track we were ...
Uncle Tan
This is a top pick! Myself and Roy De Dutch guy that I'd met at KK and again in Sepilok headed off to visit Uncle Tan (www.uncletan.com). Uncle Tan was a local guy that set up the first low cost eco tour in Sabah, and although he's no longer with us his legacy continues. I ...
Thanks Everyone, from my Ginger Friends
This is a top pick! I guess you may of seen all the photos by now of my little ginger friends...just want to say a BIG thank you to everyone who sponsored me for the London Marathon. Rest assured that the sponsorship forms will be out again when I get back as I am ...
Hanging with the Orangutans in the Jungle
This is a top pick! We arrived off our flight once again loving Air Asia we manged to get 3 seats to ourself which meant sleep again - we have been up since 0230 to watch the football and then due to the ungodly hour we had to get a taxi to the airport! We had a pickup from ...
Monkey Business
This is a top pick! ... and proboscis monkeys both of which are only found in Borneo and are suffering from loss of habitat. We visited the Sepilok orang-utan sanctuary and really enjoyed the displays of the semi wild orangs being looked after before being slowly distanced ...
Monkey Business
This is a top pick! ... here) entertained us fully. We were lucky enough to see two babies during the feeding session at the wonderful Sepilok Orang-Utan Sanctuary. We let the crowds pass and shared some pretty intimate moments with some monkeys which had appeared ...
Diving Lankayan Island
This is a top pick! 04/04: Even Hubby comes to breakfast. We are ready for the briefing at 8h and leave at 08h20 for a ride of only 6-7 minutes. I lose a fin rolling into the water. While putting it back on, I lose the second. Sigh... . This is only my 3th dive ...
SPECIAL ENTRY FOR TONY
This is a top pick! BRILLIANT picture, by Dr T: the jaw fish with eggs in his/her mouth !!! ...
Getting the finger already
This is a top pick! Pickup 9h20, after I double checked the reservation I made last night for when we are coming back, the 6th and the 7th. No reservation found. New reservation made. I underline I want the same price. That would be difficult, we got internet prices. I say, ...
Cheeky monkeys!
This is a top pick! One down, 2 to go and our next stop was to Sandakan and the Orang-utan sanctuary at Sepilok! We arrived late afternoon and headed up to an observation point to watch the sunset over the bay...up more steps!!!! What's that all about! There's not actually ...
Day 80
... my eyes. Oh, but we did see yet another wild orangutan. Three days in a row!! Well cool. So today's trip was to the Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary, where they do orangutan rescue, rehab and re-homing. We catch the morning feed and get to see two mothers with ...
Orangutans!
01/10 Helen - We set off from Kota Kinabalu on a 6 hour bus into the jungle to Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary. However before we leave our bus driver is pulled over by the police and asked to do a urine sample, very amusing, the poor guy has to walk all ...
Uncle Tans
after a grueling 6+ hour bus ride through the windy mountain range here in sabah we ended up in Sepilok, which is just about 7km west of Sandakan. We were pretty lucky to find our way here since a good map of Sabah is hard to come by especially if ...
Jungle Camp
... for about one hour. We are so lucky to spot wild orangutans in the tree tops. Of course we can't see them as close as at Sepilok but just the idea that those are 100% wild is thrilling! We are all very excited and can't wait to see all the wildlife we ...
Uncle Tan's Safari
by far something you have to do if you travel to sabah. amazing wildlife plus great staff and delcious local food made our safari trip one of the highlights of the trip thus ...
Big apes
... at about 11:00 am and are offered tea and coffee right away. After a delicious lunch we get on our Way to the Sepilok Orangutans Rehabilitation Centre (SORC). We get to see a beautiful reportage on the Centre and then we are on our way inside the park. ...
Turtles all the way down
From Kinabatangan we caught a couple of sweltering buses south to the town of Semporna, gateway to the world famous dive site of Sipadan island. We stayed in the very comfortable Dragon Inn, built on stilts over the water, but were both woken ...
Man of the Forest in Borneo
We arrived here after a small faux-pas, typically South East Asian and I'm sure the first of many- we were supposed to get the number 14 bus from Sandankan and it was meant to take only half an hour to get here, however some people at the bus station in ...
The Monkeys: Part 1
Winding down a dirt track in a red taxi, past scraggy looking chickens, we arrived at the first of our wildlife watching points - Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary. Handing over 60 RM each plus 10 RM for our camera, we made our way along a wooden ...
Orangutans and Rain
From Batang Ai we headed for Sandakan in the state of Sabah via the tropical paradise of Kota Kinabalu, Sabah's capital. Before heading on to a short flight to Sandakan, we headed to Signal Hill for a panoramic view of the city and the scenic ...
Happy Boff-Day!
... is free by the way - winner! At 9am the shuttle bus (also free) picked us up and dropped us off at Sepilok Orang-utan Rehabilitation Centre. The centre basically takes in orphaned infants whose parents have been killed during the logging of forest (soon ...
The Borneo Supremacy
... , good value places to stay, came up trumps by finding us a place to stay that was closer to the village of Sepilok. Paganakan Dii Retreat was situated at the top of a hill slap bang in the middle of the beauiful, dense Bornean rainforest. This ...
Orang Utans at Sepilok
After a lovely breakfast overlooking the sea at Sandikan we headed to the Sepilok Orang Utan rehabilitation centre to see Orang Utans being reintroduced to the wild. A great experience to be able to get so close to these magnificent creatures, we went ...
A Morning In Rehab
We were up early yesterday for feeding time at the Sepilok Orang utan Rehabilitation Centre which is right next door to our hotel and one of the main reasons for heading here. There are apparently only 20000 orang utans left in the wild. The good people ...
Sepilok – Ameisen, die heimliche Weltmacht!
... anzusehen. Wüüürg!!! So, für's Erste genug gefrustet! Zurück zu Kay & Kathi! Wir hatten uns das Sepilok Jungle Resort ausgesucht. Dieses befindet sich nur 5 Minuten vom Eingang des Rehabilitationszentrums entfernt. Also richtig schön nah dran! ...
Always a pleasure to see them
... and well-run centre and the staff are doing a great job of rehabilitating and relocating them to jungles around Borneo and Malaysia. I think the fact that few orangutans turned up is also an indication that the released orangutans are doing well for ...