Saba Hotel Sandakan

... and we were staying close by, we returned for the afternoon feeding and some more monkey magic. And well rewarded we were for our efforts! We arrived early, thankful to find the carpark considerably more empty than this morning, but found a small crowd already gathered round on the viewing platform. But not at all interested in the feeding station – all attention was riveted on the pair of orangutans making themselves at home on the ...

... forever and bid farewell to the city and this portion of my past calmly, with as little emotion as possible?

I also did some sightseeing. On the way to KK we overnighted at the Poring Hot Springs near Ranau, walked the surrounding tropical rain forest and did the canopy walkway. In KK I walked all ...

... spotting it. We’d been cruising on the river for only a few minutes when he roared the words "ORANG-UTAN", about seventy metres up river above the far bank was a small male. We guessed he was probably between eight and ten years old. We were delighted. As well as spotting two more Orang-utans we saw some white bellied sea eagles, egrets, macaques, leaf monkeys, hornbills and gibbons, which were every bit as impressive to us as the Orang-utans. We were due to be back in ...

Just a quick one here whilst i've some time to kill...

After climbing the mountain i had one night to recover back in Kota Kinabalu and the next day i woke up to find that walking was proving to be very challenging and extremely painful. After hanging around for a while i decided that i'd pack up and move on anyway so i jumped on the bus to Sepilok at around lunchtime, it took the whole afternoon to reach my destination but luckily i had found an ...

... loaded up and had to endure Ben's driving to our jungle entry point. After donning leach socks and hats we headed into the jungle. We started out on a trail he had laid but ended up just thrashing around in the jungle trying not to get eaten by the plant life and frantic attempts to stay on our feet. We didn't see much other than a squirrel and some huge sea shells (??????). We finally found a different trail and made it back down the road. Ben did manage to get a leech and ...

... was an amazing sight seeing these animals, who have 96.4% the same DNA as us humans, in their own environment. They are highly intelligent apes utilizing the jungle for tools, nests, food and getting around. It was once said that they used to be able to swing from one end of Borneo to the other and not touch the groud below. Unfortuantely that is not the case these days with it now being near the other extreme of very little jungle for these amazing animals. It was ...

... im sure i stunk of funny westerness.. but not good on a long bush trip. anyhow, eventually, we got there. The driver seemed rather worried i had no idea where i was going.. as the three other westerners got off at sepilok ( to go to the orangutan sanctuary ) whereas i wanted to explore sandakan at night.. then do that tomorrow.. anyhow, got there and staying in an empty little hostel with a room to myself watching anacoda with the locals.. still ...

... so that in 45-60 days time, they'd hatch out and be released into the wilds of the ocean. We also saw a small number of newborns being encouraged to swim out into the deep blue beyond but I guess they'd heard the statistics - virtually none of the little guys make it - they just sat on the beach and refused to go anywhere. So, with the totality of our Turtle time amounting to around five minutes with the creatures, we were knackered and headed to bed at around ...

... KINABALU CLIMB, KNP+PORING VISIT, MANUKAN ISLAND, MONSOPIAD CULTURE VILLAGE VISIT, SCUBA DIVING, ORHID FARM, TAMBUNAN TOUR, LAST TRAIN OF BORNEO, KUDAT RUNGUS LONGHOUSE VISIT, -RIVER RAFTING -MULU OR MIRI SARAWAK PACKAGES -TURTLE WATCHING TURTLE ISLAND SELINGAN SANDAKAN -WILDLIFE VIEWING @ KINABATANGAN RIVER -GOMANTONG CAVE -ORANG UTAN WATCH AT SEPILOK -DANUM ...