Sepilok Inn
Travel Blogs from Sandakan
Carry On Up The Jungle, Borneo, Sabah
... last early morning trip down the river we were super lucky to see another wild orangutan having breakfast up a fig tree! Our guide explained that because it was fruiting season they rarely needed to come close to the river. Figs are apparently orangutans least favourite fruit, much preferring durians, bananas and mangoes - I don't blame them! We watched for a while and then let him get on with his breakfast. Not long after we also saw the head of a massive Salt Water Croc, ...
Of Orang Utans, Proboscis monkeys & other wildlife
... even got into an area which usually is closed to the public. Throughout the walk we saw a mouse-deer, vipers, a funky looking hammer-head worm and a scorpion.
Apart from the wildlife there is not much else in Sepilok you can do. The village consists mainly of lodges and there is no town centre. But our lodge had this great Jacuzzi and within the boiling hours during midday it's just fantastic.
Being in ...
Wo bitte geht's zum Militär...ähm, den Klippen?
Da wir gestern schon (leider völlig unnötig) früh aufgestanden sind, ging es heute etwas etwas später los. Da wir schon jetzt nix mehr in Sandakan zu tun haben, suchten wir uns eine Challenge und planten nach Pulau Berhala zu fahren: Eine traumhafte Insel, die aber nicht direkt per öffentlichen Personennahverkehr angeschlossen ist. Also begaben wir uns um 10 an die Anlegestellen hinter den Fischmakrt um ein Boot zu chartern. Zu unserem Glück war das aber ...
Back on the road again
... enjoyable, especially spotting the different birds.
Anyway, we met some lovely people, Catherine and Angus from Inverness,
Scotland and Barbara and Christoph, a lovely young couple from near
Bavaria in Germany. We made a very happy little group and it was fun to
see things in their company. Barbara and Christoph were staying a
little longer in the hopes of seeing some elephants and Christoph
fancied himself wrestling a ...
Creando nuestro propio programa de animal planet!
... uuhh…que miedo… para seguir viendo muchos monitos narigudos y orangutanes, esta vez más cerca… mágico!!!!.
En el lodge de la selva, trabamos amistad con un par de Suizos que eran de la misma ciudad que nuestra amiga Sandra nos invitó…así que obligado a ir Friburg al parecer en nuestro periplo europeo. Les contamos de nuestra experiencia en Malasia y les dimos consejos de donde ir…qué mejor después de 7 meses que pasemos nuestra ...
Location
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