Hung Wing Hotel Sandakan

Hi All,<br><br>Arrived yesterday into Sandakan and made our way to the jungle. Arrived a lot earlier than expected so managed to make the afternoon orangutan viewing which was great....took some great photos and one of them even climbed over the wall onto the viewing platform and was literally a few feet away from us....was amazing!!!!!!<br><br>Early night cos as you can imagine, not much happens in the jungle after dark!!<br><br>Went further out ...

... that you are glad you have had but wouldnt repeat in a hurry. On exiting the cave we saw a a poisonous centipede which was pretty big and not to be messed with. As we drove out of the area of the jungle where the cave was we were fortunate to see a wild orangutan - a mother and baby in the trees. She wasn't that close to us but appartently sightings in the wild are pretty diffocult to come by so we were lucky taht the driver spotted her. After the ...

... I bade farewell to my friends who had treated me so well &#8211; among other things, they took turn to drive me around and took me to lunches and dinners. I didn&#8217;t have to pay for any snack or meal while I was there, except the one that I invited them to in the last night of my visit &#8211; and be alone again, going to Bangkok for more Thailand and Thai food. I also promised not to wait for another ten years to return, a promise that I fully intend to fulfill.

... the new model mini, and definitely not equipped for the dirt track we drove on for about forty-five minutes. For forty-five minutes they bounced around with their heads hanging out the windows, brilliant. We got back to Uncle Tans, had some lunch and were picked up by people from the hotel we&#8217;d booked for two nights, Paganakan Dii. We arrived and looked around at the rooms. They looked at first glance like shacks, made from plywood. They actually were made from plywood ...

... monkeys and then &#8211; fantastic a wild orang-utan high in a tree! Then we had numerous sightings of hornbills and lots of different varieties &#8211; rhinoceros, pied, black &amp; wrinkled. On the way back it became apparent that the river was crocodile infested as we saw our first one lazing on the side. Known as esturine crocodiles, the longest one recorded in Borneo was 8m! <br><br>Martyn was finding photography quite difficult in the low light and usually at the ...

... place to stay on the internet so i headed straight there. The place had a really funny name that i'm not even going to attempt to spell and was about 5km from the town surronded by thick jungle. The place was pretty new i think but all of the buildings were built in a traditional malaysian way with a modern twist. Since it was in the jungle there were lots of watchtowers dotted about to view birds and wildlife and stuff (i didn't bother climbing ...

... tax and why am I paying it, she just laughed at me and the men behind her in the office and said &#8220;you just do!&#8221; Basically because where not Malaysian.<br> Later that day we caught the overnight bus and it was obvious why this particular bus hadn&#8217;t sold out! It was a battered up shed on wheels. We wouldn&#8217;t of minded half as much had the air-con not constantly dripped on us both for the 8 hour duration of the journey. Shelley set up a kind of tent with ...

... visit the Orangutang Rehabilitation Centre there for the chance to see a few more and also to learn a bit about them. So, after a short spell of death as Gill would say, I headed down to the park. At first it was awful, there were well over 100 people there, all vying for the best shot. I really think this is where things have gone wrong with cameras, it's no longer about what you see or do but how good the picture is when you get ...

... our tired legs before bed. Then in the morning we managed to squeeze in one more feeding before transferring to Uncle Tan's wildlife camp. As soon as we arrived we were making our way to the feeding platform when we heard a rustle above us and we saw that there was a young male orangutan directly above us who was coming down! So before he knew it he was right in front of us on the board walk and he basically escorted us and a few others to the ...

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