Borneo Tropical Rainforest Resort

... Lang, Deer, Wind, Sarawak Chamber, Garden of Eden, 1st class adventure. We took Air Asia into Miri and lodged in Borneo Tropical Rainforest Resort, spent 4 days there and then the next 4 days frolicking in the forests of Mulu, which is only accessible via ...

... orangutans in the national park.  I was very excited!  We arrived in the area and treked a little way into the rainforest passing one large orangutan eating in the shade!  He was huge and just awesome to see.  Oliver went quite close ...

... or dip in the road scratches the underside of it!!!! Driving seems not too bad for Michael and after 45 minutes we reach the "Borneo Tropical Rainforest Resort"...or at least we think we reached it. After passing the gates the road stops and we have to go ...

... run" in my mind. Kota Kinabalu was hot. And even more than it was hot, it was humid. We were in rainforest, wetland territory, and it was palpable the moment we stepped off the plane into the blinding air surrounding the airport grounds. Formalities ...

... teach them everything including how to climb, hunt for fruit and build nests. The centre is surrounded by over 4,000acres of rainforest and they don’t have an exact number of Orang-utans because they slowly wean them off the support of humans and ...

... is located on 90 acres of lush tropical gardens fronting Teluk Bandung beach. Nestled within the some of the world’s oldest tropical rainforest and overlooking the South China Sea, it is about ¾ of an hour’s drive from downtown Kuching. Being ...

... ;           Facilities Lankayan Island Dive Resort (LIDR) is a much acclaimed tropical island paradise resort offering everything from small number of guests, great beaches, superior rooms and food, and fantastic macroworld ...

... close to closing time, so had to hurry. Don't see any fauna, but nice forest - not real canopy rainforest. Have another meal at the resort, and an early night. Tuesday 21st Sept Sepilok - Semporna Weaken and get RM30 shuttle from hotel to bus station. ...

... of thunder were cacophonous. In the morning we woke up and had breakfast before setting off for the Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary. The rainforest in Borneo is luscious and wonderful - I have never been anywhere where it's felt so natural, but there is vast ...

... glad the hotel had recommended an early expedition. The Rainforest Discovery Centre is basically a load of paths in the natural rainforest but it also has a tropical flower garden, orchid section and a tree top walk way. All fantastic and due to the  ...

... it was to be used by POWs, the local headmen had deliberately routed it away from any habitation, through dense rainforest and across treacherous and inhospitable mountain terrain. Coupled with the intense tropical heat, it would have been difficult ...

... met Catriona, originally of Ullapool (small world and all that) and now resident in NZ. She was on her way to the Rainforest music festival in Borneo and was great fun to chat with. Day 3: Trekking Round the Island Martyn’s birthday (he got a new ...

... and picked up again later in the day which allowed us to attend both feeding times. In between we walked to the Rainforest Nature Centre 2 km away, despite the day being extremely hot. It was well worth attending both feeding sessions at the sanctuary. ...

... to boot. As we turned the boat around, facing a huge palm oil plantation sticking out like a sore thumb against the rainforest, Alloy somehow saw a three-foot water monitor lizard sunbathing high up a tree in the setting sun, eyes squinting lazily every ...

... of the rampant logging and clearance for palm oil plantations, all of the rich wildlife that you could imagine that a Bornean rainforest can contain, has been squashed and pushed into two narrow bands of rainforest that line either side of this mighty ...

... significant hill, for some cloudy views over the national park and rivers around.  We also had fun experiencing the rainforest from a canopy walkway, a series of wobbly rope bridges strung up high in the treetops. As we swayed  precariously ...

... , we decided to take in some of the park's other offerings. The park is famous because its elevation, combined with Borneo's tropical climate and isolation has created thousands of indigenous species of plants found nowhere else in the world. We took a ...

... unusual flower, which is also the national flower for Sabah. Our next venture was to cross the canopy walkway through part of the rainforest at Poring. It measures 157m long and is 41m high. It took about 1/2 hour to reach the walkway along a steep path ...

... I would have liked to stay longer and maybe visit the Taman Negara national park and Borneo, maybe next time. The bus ride down from the highlands to the nearest town was incredible. Passing hills covered in rainforest. It poured down. By for now ...