Malaysia Tour Package Borneo 5 Days / 4 Nights city and adventure tours of Sandakan   (3)

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5 Days / 4 Nights city and adventure tours of Sandakan, Borneo

Malaysia Tour Package Borneo 5 Days / 4 Nights city and adventure tours of Sandakan

This 5 Days / 4 Night Sandakan adventure tours include:- (1) Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre (2) Rainforest Discovery Centre (3) Turtle Island Park (4) Sandakan City (5) Gomantong Cave and (6) Kinabatangan River

1. Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre : The SOURC giving tourists the opportunity to watch the orang utan up close in their natural habitat. A boardwalk leads you to a viewing gallery and feeding platform where the apes are fed by rangers.The center taking care of about 80 apes, keeping the endangered Sumatran rhinoceros, elephants and other rare animals as well.

2. Rainforest Discovery Centre: RDC is the gateway getting to know the uniqueness and importance of Borneo’s rainforests. Its main highlights are its exhibition halls, the Plant Discovery Garden, the Kapili-Sepilok Forest Reserve, environmental education programmes and a small lake for boat rides. Birdwatchers will be fascinated by this place as it has one of the rarest birds in Sabah, The Borneon Bristlehead and another 250 species of other birds.

3. Turtle Island Park: Selingan Island, one of the composition of Turtle Island Park, houses the park’s headquarters, a turtle hatchery, tourist accommodation and basic facilities. Turtles lay their eggs throughout the year, but the best time to head there is between July and October. As turtle landings usually occur after dusk, an overnight stay would be the best plan to see the turtles as they come ashore to lay their eggs, but shining a light on them or using camera flashes should be avoided as either can be stressful on the creatures.

4. Sandakan City: Sandakan is located on the eastern seaboard of Sabah. It is a city which is steeped in history. Its character is shaped by the hinterland that embodies Sabah’s rich and diverse biodiversity in all its glory.

The city tour includes : Australian War Memorial commemorates the sacrifice and suffering endured by both Australian and British soldiers who were held by the Japanese as Prisoners of War between 1942 and 1945, Sandakan Central Market to see the local produce and fresh seafood are being sold, Sim-sim Water Village with houses built close to the water surface , which at that time was a narrow , uninhabited coastal fringe of jungle and mangroves, Puh Jih Shih Buddhist Temple, Agnes Keith House : may have your own choices of refreshment (own payment) and St. Michael’s Church The oldest church in Sabah where you can see a century old building where Christianity is preached.

5. Gomantong Cave: Described by WWF as ’the best-managed edible birds’ nest cave in the world’, Gomantong Caves in the heartland of the Gomantong Rainforest Reserve have been the focus for birds’ nests for centuries. There are two cave complexes - Simud Hitam (Black Cave) soaring up to 90 metres high and the more accessible of the two, and Simud Putih (White Cave), where the more valuable nests are found. A well-maintained boardwalk gives you easy access to do some exploring or watch the skilled harvesters at work.

6. Kinabatangan River: Stretching 560 km from the Crocker Range in the southwest of Sabah to the Sulu Sea in the east, the Kinabatangan River sustains one of the world’s richest ecosystems. The lower basin of the river itself is the largest forest covered floodplain in Malaysia and has the largest concentration of wildlife in the South East Asian region. A trip up the river at dawn or dusk is the best opportunity to see the wildlife, eg. Proboscis monkeys, langurs, orang utan, hornbills, kingfishers, mangrove snakes and etc. You might even sight an Asian elephant or a Sumatran rhinoceros wandering through the trees.

Itinerary:
- Day 1 (Include Lunch & Dinner)
08:30 Pick up from hotel and drive approximately 40 mins to Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Center. After registration, trek 10 mins through the rainforest on wooden boardwalk to the Feeding Platform.
10:00 Witness the morning feeding of Orang Utans. Return to reception center, watchthe scheduled video programme (25 mins) at the Nature Education Center, and visit to the Exhibition Hall, then Lunch on the way.
15:00 Visit Sepilok for the second feeding in the afternoon. After that, pay a visit to Rainforest Discovery Centre. The Exhibition Centre and the Plant Discovery Centre will bring you a lot of information about the nature in the area. Walk on a suspension bridge and ending it with the only Canopy Walk in Sandakan.
18:00 Proceed to Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Center with Sepilok Ranger for a night walk in the forest.
20:00 Dinner & stay overnight at SJR (Twin Sharing Basis).

Day 2 ( Include breakfast, lunch & dinner)
08:15 Pick up from hotel and transfer to Jetty for Selingan Turtle Island. This journey by motorized boat will take about 1 hour.
12:30 Lunch will be served at the cafeteria. After lunch, free at leisure! You may grab your mask, fins and snorkel and head to the beach where you can find lots of juvenile marine life or you can choose to relax or sun bathing by the beach.
Before dinner, treat yourself to a slide show featuring information of the Turtle Park and turtles.
After dinner, stand-by at the cafeteria. Wait for park ranger’s signal before proceed in a small group to the egg-laying site to witness the mother turtle laying eggs, transferring of eggs to the hatchery and releasing of hatchlings to the sea.
Stay overnight at Island Chalet (Twin Room Basis).

- Day 3 (Include breakfast, lunch and dinner)
Wake up early in the morning for breakfast in the cafeteria.
07:00 key back to the Reception Counter and depart the island.
08:00 Estimated arrival time at the jetty and proceed for the city tour: Sandakan Memorial Park, Puu Jih Shih Buddhist Temple,
The Parish Of St. Michael and All Angels Church, Kg Buli Sim Sim, Central Market , Agnes Keith House.
12:00 Enjoy lunch and then at 13:00 Proceed to Gomantong Cave to explore the largest limestone and bird nests cave in Sabah.
17:30 After visiting the cave, wait at the cave entrance to witness the feeding of bathawk on millions of bats that merge out from the cave in search for food and then, at 18:30 Drive onwards to Bilit, Kinabatangan River.
20:00 Dinner and stay overnight at Bilit Adventure Lodge (Twin Sharing Basis).

- Day 4 (Include breakfast, lunch and dinner)
06:00 Wake up to the calls of gibbons and birds and start the day with an early river cruise. 07:00 Proceed back to the lodge for breakfast.
08:30 A guided jungle walk in the late morning to Ox-Bow Lakes for wildlife sighting.
12:00 Back to lodge enjoy lunch.
16:00 take an afternoon cruise along the Kinabatangan River (Sabah’s longest river at 560km) where you can observe wildlife on the boat itself.
18:00 Dinner and stay overnight at Bilit Adventure Lodge.

- Day 5 (Include breakfast and lunch)
08:00 After breakfast, transfer back to Sandakan.
11:30 Estimated arrival time. Transfer back to hotel or airport.

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