Sepilok Forest Edge Resort
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Ape close and personal
Up at 6 and off on the river by 6.30. We hadn't seen proboscis monkey (unique to Borneo and with a very strange bulbous floppy nose) yet so that was Eve’s challenge for the morning and she didn’t let us down. Within half an hour we were checking out about 5 of them in the tree where they’d slept the night; all were still asleep …
Hanging out with great man of the forest
With Mark feeling a bit better we headed down to Sepilok Orangutan rehabilitation sanctuary(only a 10 min walk from our lodge) after breakfast.
There are only 3 orang-utan sanctuary's in the world and we learnt when we watched the video later in the day how the sanctuary takes in orphaned and ill-treated baby orang-utans and rehabilitates …
It's a Jungle out there..
Woke with slightly hazy heads and slowly packed and dragged ourselves (again very slowly as legs were hurting more than day before) to the airport for our 1pm flight to Sandankan in Borneo, only a 45 min flight – thankfully. We arrived at our accommodation for the next 5 nights at around 3pm. The lodge was great, on the edge of loads of …
Day 80
Up at 5.30 am (ugh) as we have to get back on the boat to go catch a bus to the orangutan sanctuary. Am slightly less enthusiastic about the boat after hearing a story from one of the guys in the group about a bloke in Africa who was on the river with his son, when a croc actually leapt up on to the boat and took the father. Needless to say the …
Wild men of Borneo
Transfers back to Tawau for the short flight to sandakan. From here we took a taxi a little way out of town to our accomodation just next to the Sepilok orang utan sanctuary where stayed 2 nights, giving us the whole next day at the sanctuary and the nearby rainforest discovery centre.
Sepilok rehabilitates orang utans who have been …
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