Sandakan Small Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Very soon I will be packing my bags again ready to return to Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre, Sabah, Borneo - for me this is home from home and I am counting the days though I have a lot to do before I set out for Heathrow Airport, flying this year from Terminal 4 as Malaysian Airlines have changed terminals. Not such good memories of tr...

25.10-27.10.09 Sandakan. Sabah. Borneo.

Silla on 96%:sti yhtalainen geeniperima ihmisen kanssa. Luontoon palattuaan sen on nahty varastavan veneita ja hyppivan kyytiin virran vietavaksi. Sen nimi tarkoittaa "Metsan ihmista". Silla on oranssi turkki ja kahdeksan miehen voimat. Se soi aamiaista Mauno Koiviston kanssa Singaporessa.. ja se sy...

Greetings from Borneo! Well as mentioned before we had tried and tested the wonderful luxury of the Nexus Resort in Kota Kinabalu and roused ourselves to travel via bus to the otherside of Borneo so that we could visit the Orang Utangs in Sepilok Rehabilitation Centre. When i say "we" I presume that you all know my Auntie Rosie has joined me? An...

Well here we are in tropical Sandakan! We've only just arrived so can't tell you much about it, yet, other than it seems less affluent than Kota Kinabalu. We found our hotel, the first we did not pre-book, via Lonely Planet, and it was a pleasant surprise. Very clean and in a convenient location. More on that later ... We arrived in Kota Kinabal...

Bussturen fra Kota Kinabalu til Sepilok var den verste så langt...huff...og etter 5-6 timer ble vi satt av i en rundkjøring...hehe...og der stod vi i pøsregnet og bekmørket...nice...etter noen minutter kom det en bil som så ut som om den hadde tenkt å hente oss...så det passet jo bra :-) Hadde booka rom på Sepilok Jungle Resort. Skal sove her i ...

We went to Sepilok Rehabilitation Centre and what we did was... we saw a pigmey squirrel what someone else found but i was the one who found it first out of me and my mum. We also saw lots of lizards, one centipede and one big, fat grub on the jungle walk. [really muddy] When we were there we saw seven Orang Utans being fed by their rehabilitato...

Tuesday 18th October 2005 We originally were going to Sepilok Orang-Utan Sanctuary for the whole day, as they have feedings twice a day.  We decided to just go in the afternoon, so that gave the morning to sort out Hannah's flights to KL and also bringing her flight from KL to Perth forward to this weekend.  We found it very  difficult to change...