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Sukau Slideshow
Sukau
Travel Blogs from Sukau, Malaysia
Sukau - Lower Kinabatangan River, Borneo
This is a top pick! ... viewing guielines. What can you do! Mosquito net assembly leaves us exhausted, so it's an early night. Expenses (7 ringgit / pound): Sukau trip 680, internet 15, flip flops 22, lunch 14, laundry 16 Sat Sep 4th - Day 122 The rambuttan tree above ...
Hitchin' a ride
This is a top pick! ... ; much less animals were sighted and again it was very crowded, though we did see hornbills today. Leaving Sukau B & B, we weren't prepared to pay the ridiculous fees they wanted to drive us to the main road, so we walked into ...
Day 78
Had an amazing night's kip, and could quite happily have continued for most of the day. However, the alarm goes off and I go to get up - only to realise that I can't actually move as all my muscles have turned to wood. Oh my God - I ache from head to ...
Day 79
Wake up and I am still channeling Mr Crouch, or at the very least Smithy from Gavin and Stacey. Every step is murder! Start the day with a little jungle walk. Douse myself with insect repellant (literally), cover up as many body parts as possible and get ...
En flok vilde elefanter
Langt ude paa landet, langs Sabahs laengste flod ved navn Sungai Kinabatangan, ligger den lille landsby Sukau. Skoven omkring lige netop denne del af den lange, mudrede flod vrimler med liv, og er dermed et oplagt sted at overvaere de vilde ...
Day off!
Today is my first full day off since I arrived in Borneo. That meant I was allowed a lie-in this morning, and managed to wake up at 8:30! This morning a couple of other GVI volunteers and I went to the limestone caves in Kinabatangan. It was quite ...
Kinabatangan River - Osman’s Homestay
... Hüften verkrallt. Wo sind wir denn hier gelandet, hier ist ja keine Sau! Sind von der Fernverkehrsstraße runter & Richtung Sukau gelaufen. Da kam uns schon ein junger Bursche entgegengelaufen & fragte: „You are Kay & Kathi"? Wir ...
Osman, Kinabatangan, Elephants and Dogs (Part 1)
4 Days at Osman's home stay as recommended by Lisa and Cameron from NZ in Kuching. Osman is what I envisaged the "Man from Borneo" to be like. He lives in a house with stilts with his 6 children, wife, 2 cats, numerous very noisy cockerels and 2 boats, ...
Rhinoceros Hornbills Blue Eared Kingfishers + more
... we got 5ft away! There were the usual long tailed macaques, a croc and the fully birds list for the day down below. Back to Sukau and our accom. I have to say, a great lodge, great accommodation and great food yet again. Erica rested in the room and I ...
Bornean Blue Flycatcher and Otters with SI Tours
Back at the stilt city after Sepilok we had time to look a round a little as we walked out to the boat jetty. We were given face towels, water and time for bathroom stops before jumping on the fast boat that would take us to the Kinabangtan River. There ...
rainforest jungle camp
One of the reasons I came to visit Borneo was to see the exotic, science-fiction wildlife inhabiting the thick of the rainforest here. A good start for viewing wildlife is along the Kinabatangan River, where I stayed at a very basic, no frills camp ...
Supu
Last night I stayed in MESCOT's Supu camp. It's similar to the eco camp that I stayed at before, but much more isolated and basic. There were an unbelievable amount of leeches, meaning that every ten minutes I would have to flick three or four off of my ...
Wild Orangutangs!
I'd heard about the Kinabatangan river trips with Uncle Tan's several times since arriving in Borneo.. time to try it out. After slipping straight down into a ditch right in front of a bus full of Malaysians I strolled into Uncle Tan's and pretty much ...
Wanderlust & . . . Monsoons?? - Kinabatangan River
... whatever I could, despite the monsoon. I thus decided to head back to the Peninsula - as the West Coast of Pensinsular Malaysia is currently in its dry season. That night, we ate in our hotel restaurant, listening to a woman sing barely ...
Oxbow lakes, tree planting and the hard sell
... . We saw saltwater crocs, more monitors, wild pigs and where the elephants had crossed from one river bank to the other the night before! Sukau was much bigger than Abai and had a lot more people there. It was also accessible by road, onwhich a few people ...
Long-tailed Macaques
Long-tailed macaques (or the crab-eating macaques as they are also known) are without a doubt the most common monkeys to be seen along the Kinabatangan river. They are usually found in large groups of around twenty to thirty individuals and they are easy ...
Der fruehe Vogel faengt den Wurm
Guten Morgen! Tagwacht um 5.15 Uhr und das in den Ferien. Das kann ja fast nicht sein! Aber wir haben uns fuer diese Tour entschieden und da muessen wir jetzt durch. Damit wir wach werden, stehen wir als erstes unter die Dusche. Wir haben ja schon ...
Kinabatangan
La journée suivante nous partions pour la rivière kinabatangan, une aventure de 3 jours dans la jungle. Après un petit 5 heures de routes (après 3 mois de voyages c'est vraiment petit !) une traversée à travers les montagnes avec une vue sur ...
Definitely not the Hilton!
The first warning on the Uncle Tans website is "Don't expect Comfort". All reviews laboured the point, and we went expecting the worst. Luckily our fears were not realised! We arrived deep in the jungle, after an hour and a half mini-bus trip, ...
Welcome to the Jungle
... holprig, aber trotzdem angenehm. Ann ist sehr neugierig und interessiert und so verfliegt die Zeit wie im Nu. Im Sukau Greenview angekommen, erhalten wir ein kurzes Briefing darueber, was wir in den naechsten Tagen alles unternehmen werden. Gesamthaft ...
Kinabatangan river cruise
As mentioned in my entry about the pygmy elephants, last Tuesday I went on a cruise down the Kinabatangan river. I managed to spot lots of wildlife, including several types of monkey, three orangutans, a crocodile and some beautiful hornbills. I have ...
I'm a Tourist get me outta here!
After the Mulu National Park, I flew straight to the Sabah state capital, Kota Kinabalu, named after the highest mountain in Asia. KK is a nice enough town – a few of us from Mulu headed here together and found a great night market by the sea ...
Days 29 and 30: Sukau Jungle lodge
We had a fairly early start and headed on a four hour drive over to the east of Sabah to the Gomantong caves - these house over a million swiftlets and bats. A short walk through the jungle was required to reach the mouth of the cave which was ...
Macho, Macho man! I wanna be a Macho man! (Part 2)
Macho, macho man! Part 1 I am kitted out in my jungle attire which means I am wearing my safari hat. It's starting to look worn and is particularly smelly. It fits well and I believe that it gives the impression of an experienced jungle survivor. After ...
Borneo's pygmy elephants
Yesterday was our day off, and the other volunteers and I were planning a river cruise for the evening, however, a couple of French journalists who were staying in the same village as us had spotted a herd of river elephants the day before. They were ...
First glimpse of Borneo rainforest
The rainforest of Borneo is touted as the best in the world - along with the Amazon (and all the other rainforests..!) But it is certainly very cool! I got myself out to a river resort thing - and on a dawn boat ride up river to see what we could ...
Gomantong Caves
Last night, as I said we were going to do in my previous entry, we visited the Gomantong Caves. I didn't have the best start, as I was told the entrance fee for me would be 60RM (30 for me, and an additional 30 for my camera). I thought that was a bit ...
Gibbon tracking
Just outside of the village where I'm staying is a large hill covered in rainforest, running adjacent to the Kinabatangan river. The hill is home to a population of Bornean, or Müller's gibbons that we often hear singing in the early morning. ...
5 days, 1161kms, 1bike 2 very sore bums - Day 3-5
19/3/2010 We set off from Sandakan pretty early on the 19th, heading for Sukau, a tiny little village 135km South-East of Sandakan. The attraction of Sukua is that it is right on the Sungai Kinabatangan River (Sabbah's longest river). We had been told ...
Jungle Camp!
I was a bit apprehensive about our next destination - the Kinabatangan Jungle Camp. I had convinced Craig to 'upgrade' slightly as we were originally considering staying in a camp with no running water and outside toilets! However, I was still prepared ...