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Sandakan Slideshow
Sandakan
Travel Blogs from Sandakan, Malaysia
A place to shower
We were glad to get back to the hostel where we had left our big bags, shower, and sleep in a real bed. Just enough of the wilds of outside to appreciate the indoors again. We also enjoyed a few more good meals of roti and iced Sabah ...
Borneo Adventures part 1
Happy new yearxxx We are in Sandakan - Borneo, we saw orang-utans today one with a baby. We climbed Mt Kinabulu ... 9hrs to reach the summit over 4000m above sea level. What a way to start the new year, it was so freezzzing at the top ...
Traveling to a stinking hole
Day traveling from Bario to Sandakan – Plane, plane and then a 8 hour bus drive leaving us outside a very shut hostel at 2am. The bastards knew we were coming but seemed to have gone to sleep. Had to walk around trying to find another hostel. NOT ...
Day 2 at the camp -my first catfish
The trek was not far from the camp. They took us by boat and we then had to scramble up the bank. It rained fairly hard and so it was very very muddy. The forest was fairly dense but there was a path and the guide pointed out several trees and other ...
Monkey Business
... was initially breath-taking; even so we both passed out for little under an hour and awoke to fields of Malaysia's main export. From there to Sandakan (the next three hours) oceans of palm oil plantations were a blight on the beautiful landscape! ...
Monkeys!
We landed in Sandankan with no hostel booked or plans, this is my favourite way to travel I have decided, some people we meet cant quite believe we do it and we heard some people saying how every minute detail of their trip is planned by the day and ...
Jungling Janet!!!
7 days in the jungle???? Absolutely Amazing! From the usual South African Bush to Borneo Jungle. Booked a 3 day two night trip with Uncle Tan in Borneo. My mission was to visit my red haired family members. After 3 days, I must have been the ...
Sepilok and Kinabatangan River (Borneo Jungle)
Having left Sipidan we took a 5 hour bus trip to Sandakan to get in to the Borneo Jungle. We were the only westerners, shared the bus with lots of Malaysians, a loud cockeral, some tropical fish and a couple of illegal philipino immigrants who exited the ...
Atravesando la selva en bus
Las vistas entre Kota Kinabalu y Sandakan eran espectaculares. Vimos mucha selva virgen, entre tinieblas, algunas plantaciones, casitas junto a la carretera... Lastima que el autobus no hiciera paradas (solo una para usar el ...
Day 40 - Sandakan
Up at 4am, and into our ordered taxi with Terry to Sandakan Memorial Park. Yellow lights led our way up to the main memorial. The service was beautiful and very moving. My favourite was the burning of gum leaves as people back home used to send them over ...
Zamboanga to Sandakan by Boat
... 46.206E]. Both of these places deserved a few weeks just by themselves. Tawi Tawi was really intriguing. About 7-8 PM we arrived in Sandakan where customs and immirgration took about an hour. We took a taxi rm10 to the Mayfair Hotel. [05 50.321N 118 ...
Orangutan Time
... Sandakan. The main reason for coming here is to visit the Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre at Sepilok, about 25km from Sandakan. A quick walk around town the first afternoon confirmed that there was indeed nothing in this town for tourists, ...
Jungle Bound.....and back again!
... staff, fab pool, great views, etc, etc, etc......This plan was cemented firmly when dining out at the harbour in Sandakan that evening we watched as 2 lazy rats raced underneath our table narrowly missing Rozzers bag in the process (honestly, ...
Sepilok (Sandakan) Ouran Outang
Salut tout le monde, Nous allons bien. Je suis plus en forme aujourd'hui et Rejean aussi. Nous avons ecouter des films une bonne partie de la soiree. Nous avons manger des beurre beurre de peanut, yahoo, c'etait genial. Aujourd'hui, c'etait ...
Wildlife in North Borneo
... -aid on it. The bed looked like a mini crime scene the next morning, not to mention my T-shirt that I slept in. Sandakan After the early morning wildlife watching boat ride and breakfast, I headed back to the town of Sandakan on a local bus ...
Marche dans - Sandakan - Walk in
... Mais il etais decu quand je lui ai dis que c'etait des faux (hihi). Prenant le bus publique, nous sommes aller voir Sandakan Memorial Park. Pas grand chose a voir mais ce fut autrefois un camp de POW (prisoner of war), construit par les ...
Monkey Business
... kuitenkin jaada pariksi yoksi jottei olisi hirvea kiire kokoajan ja hyva niin. Ihan mukavaksi paikaksihan Sandakan kuitenkin osoittautui (Kaupunki tunnettiin tuhat vuotta sitten Kiinan keisarin linnunpesien hovituottajana. Taalta niita raijattiin ...
Palm oil cultivation.
... had an affect on the river life. Worldwide 400 million tonnes of palm oil is produced and there is a growing demand. Malaysia and the WWF have gone into partnership in this area to promote sustainable palm oil which has meant getting everyone in ...
Sandakan, Malaysia
... checked back into the Mayfair Hotel where we had stayed previously. It's really as good a deal there as you can get in Malaysia for accommodation. There's a DVD player and 42" LCD TV in every room and the owner has a collection of thousands of DVD's for ...
The Climb Ends
... giving an opportunistic elderly Malaysian man the chance to run a scam to try and convince us that the road between Kota Kinabalu and Sandakan was cut to large vehicle access due to a landslide and we would need to go with him in his small minivan at a ...
Sandakan
... to see so that didn't take long so we headed to the English tea house. The English tea house was on a hill over looking Sandakan. The place was really peaceful and beautiful, so we had a cream tea and pink lemonade and soaked up the colonial atmosphere. ...
Turtle Island
CLICK ON PHOTOS AT TOP TO ENLARGE! Next morning feeling better and we catch the boat, 45min trip, at 9.30 to Turtle Island. Head to the beach for most of the day, do some snorkeling, not a lot to see but a few clown fish and some huge blue star ...
Mud and leeches
The Jungle trip is about 2 hours from Sepilok and the scenery was brilliant and sad at the same time. One can see parts of once virgin rain forest however most of the landscape is now Palm trees which are farmed for Palm Oil. Consequently most of ...
Turtles and Orangutans
Across on the east coast lies Sandakan. A small, concrete box-apartment styled town (with lots of waterfront construction going on) near to the Sepilok Orangutan Rehab Centre (they too must have strayed from the Koran!). These are great creatures to ...
Sanda-Can you install some escalators?
After a cruisey morning recovering from our climb (Michelle was limping and regreting every flight of stairs) in which we found a not so dodgey Hotel and moved in, we caught to bus to Sepilok to visit the Orang-utan Rehabilitation Centre. It was great to ...
Day 58- Jungles of Borneo
For the past two days I have been doing river cruises and Jungle treks in the Northwest Jungles of Borneo. I stayed in Bungalow with a mosquito net right next to the Kalimantan River. When I arrived I was very depressed because I didn’t want to ...
Sightseeing and orangutans in Sandakan
... place during the Second World War. More than 2400 Australian and British prisoners of war were marched through the dense jungle from Sandakan to Ranau, just close Mt. Kinabalu. Of the 2400, only six escapees survived. The city is home to an Australian ...
Satisfied with Sandakan
March 20, 2007 Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia Our greeting to Malaysian Borneo has been warm and friendly. No one tried to grab our luggage when we arrived and no one is demanding dollars. The comparison with the Philippines is extremely favorable. We ...
Day 110: Sandakan
... mountain and jungle and lounge about in front of a TV. My filthy, reeking, still-damp clothes will get laundered. Sandakan has few attractions. It's a working harbour close to Filipino waters across the Sulu Sea, and there are many Filipinos living ...