Sandakan Hotels - Reviews and Rates

A minor alteration in the itinerary and we arrive very late in the evening at Sepilok River Lodge in the heart of the Sandakan jungle. Tired but very appreciative of our attentive guide we eat and settle down for our first night on the understanding many wild beasties have been spotted in the area recently. Not a dickie bird later, in the mornin...

We left KK and headed east to Sepilok to visit the Orang-utans. We had hopes of finding Uncle-Tans to stay at, though the place evaded us and we ended up at the Sepilok Jungle Lodge, which turned out to be far to expensive, and not that great, but that is besides the point. We came to see the Orangs, and that we did. We woke up in the morning, h...

I made it to the city of Sandakan in the Malaysian state of Sabah on the island of Borneo (yup, its confusing....Borneo is partly the Kingdom of Brunei, partyly Malaysia and partly Indonesia). I was able to send my luggage through to my next port (Kota Kinabalu) which meant I was able to carry just a day pack. Huge for my life. I headed straight...

On to sandakan, a nice coastal town and a lazy sunday, topped off by a blow out meal at the English Tea House (well GBP 25 for two with cocktails) and a vaguely western meal. This is on the hill above Sandakan and we were treated to a waterfront firework display which turned out to be the launch party for a new hotel. Later we wandered down and ...

I ignore the call for the morning safari at 6am. Torrential rain promises a miserable hour in the open boat. When the handful of soaked sailors return, they haven't seen anything new. I made the right choice. And still the water level rises. The camp may have to close soon. I get drenched anyway on my trip back upriver to base. I take a short pu...

Arrived in Sandakan late Monday evening. It was really lovely, there were little or no tourists there with the result that we were something of a novelty, especially with the children! Once we had figured out we weren't being made fun of and all the shy smiles and waves on the locals' part were genuinely welcoming, we settled into our minor cele...

The Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre was set up in the early 60's, it's aim to return orphaned, injured or displaced orangutans to the wild. It has been very successful with many orangutans returning to the Kabili-Sepilok jungle. The rehabilitation process starts as soon as a orangutan arrives with it been given a full medical and then qu...