Hotel New Sabah Sandakan

... covered with a green carpet of green weed starving the lake and fauna within is now completely clear, looking beautiful and with the addition of an amazing eco camp at one end of the lake. Fantastic! An eco-tourism business set up and run by the locals provides a great alternative income to palm oil and logging. There is hope for the world&#8217;s 3rd largest rainforest yet.<br><br>Sepilok Orang-utan Rehabilitation Centre<br>A very inspiring place that has a huge ...

... up to greet you they were likely to take large clumps of flesh out of your legs - we got away with a few superficial scratches. Apparently most of the residents of the village have come as immigrants from the Philipines. The island is very close to the border wth the Philipines which we saw later in the day from the boat. After the village tour we went to another local nature reserve island for a couple of hours. We did a ride in a glass ...

... pleased to know they were around!<br><br> The main activity out here is wildlife spotting along the banks of the river by boat. After taking a short walking trail through the forest (plenty of caterpillars, biting insects and a few leeches!) we went out on our first trip, soon encountering a group of proboscis monkeys leaping around in the tall trees on the riverbank. These primates are found only in Borneo and whilst not exactly attractive are ...

... stroke the little orangutan and get the cutest photo ever! We headed back to the viewing platform, and slowly, more orangutans started to show up. There were five that showed up for a feed. They were showing off as they came swinging in on the ropes, and even had a wee fight with some monkeys that were looking for a meal as well. <br>After the feeding, we got a ride back to Uncle Tan's Operations Base for lunch and to get sorted for our trip to the jungle. <br>Luckily we had a fairly ...

... fearing he could be mugged we told him to put his money away. Uncle Jims&#8217; friend, the bus driv** would look aft** us on the journey and we left for a 45 minute journey to Sepilok. We w**e cutting it fine to make the 09:00 hrs meet up at Uncle Tans for the Orangutan transport. The bus took an age and at 09:28 hrs we arrived at Uncle Tans wh**e they took us down to the Orangutan sanctuary, arriving just in time to see one of the daily feeding sessions at 10 am.<br ...

... and missed the Gibbons. We were supposed to do another trek thru the jungle but instead decided to punk out and do a river cruise again. This trip was less eventful, did see the discovery Channel crew filming macaque monkeys, bats, swiftlets, an eagle, oriental fisher and several other birds and a monitor lizard or 2 but no crocs or elephants. We also got to sit quietly and listen to the jungle music. By this time I am hot and sleepy and ready to take a nap on the trip back ...

... to have them even as a pet. It takes up to ten years of care and teaching before they are released out into the large protected rainforest surrounding Sepilok. They are checked for diseases first and then slowly taught how to climb, build nests and forage for food over the many years. Its a slow process where they have a carer and as they get older they are allowed more and more freedom. Once released they are once again wild animals with total freedom and choice to ...

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 le retour sur la planete des singes. Nous sommes aller au centre de rehabilitation des ouran-outang. Nous etions decu ce matin quand ils les ont nourrient, parce-qu'il y avait beaucoup de monde et ne pouvions bien voir. Nous ...