Hotel Lee Gardens Sandakan

Lot 9 Block C Taman Hsiang Leila Rd. Sandakan, Sabah, Malaysia

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Man of the Forest

A travel blog entry by flashpacking

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... were lucky enough to see 4 adults, two of which had had their own babies in the wild, which was nice to see as the rehab program was clearly working. We spent a while in the heat watching the 'man of the forest' gracefully swing through the trees and then headed over to the rainforest discovery centre which was 'around the corner' as me and our friend Amy kept saying. After half an hour walk in the midday sun we came to the centre and were much in need of the air ...

She Sells (Monkey) Sanctuary

A travel blog entry by alanhopkins

... the UK embassy who informed us to call back later. We went for tea.

Went for a mertabak between us first. It's sort of bread with onion, peppers, chicken cooked in it with a dipping curry sauce, it was good. We went back to the place from last night and I had sizzling chicken noodles and asked for her to make it spicy, it was sort of gravyesque again, fine I guess.

Went back to the hotel and stressed about what to do, turns out you need a visa on arrival but the point ...

The Corridor of Life

A travel blog entry by bahra

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... multiplied by x amount of people in each village making 3 to 4 prawn traps each year... well you can see how the story unfolds when you tie this with the fact that the river bank was a major logging site due to the ease of transport and that acres of these primary trees were cut down.
The local community actually came up with the idea of using more modern and sustainable equipment.

For anything else that I have forgotten from the ...

Christmas trees in the jungle?!

A travel blog entry by lady_ives

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... a few days previously that had gone right through the camp. They had completely trampled one spot and managed to clamber onto the boardwalk in one place. It was all muddy and sloaped down where it had sank under their weight. The guide heard the elephants trumpeting so we headed off to their newest platform that was a good place to see their normal route past the camp. We sat at the top of this 3-storey platform in the dark listening to the elephants. It sounded ...

Into the Wild

A travel blog entry by jac_rob

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... of the airfield, including stealing and sabotaging equipment. Even local men got involved and destroyed a tractor!

In late 1944, the Allies bombed and destroyed the airstrip and the Japanese moved the POWs 260km west towards Ranau. On three forced death marches, 500 prisoners died, with all but six of the remaining, dying at Ranau and Sandakan.

The other six were Australian soldiers who escaped. With the help of locals, ...

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