Malaysia Borneo Sabah 3 Days 2 Nights Sandakan Treasures Exploration  

Overview

Malaysia Borneo Sabah 3 Days 2 Nights Sandakan Treasures Exploration

Discover popular attractions in Sandakan highlighting endangered Orang Utans and Sun Bears in their natural habitat. Also experience an enchanting Kinabatangan River with a remarkable river cruise. And exploring Sandakan City tour, one of Sabah’s earliest settlements home to haunting cemeteries, Chinese temples, and colonial mansions.

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.

Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre
The sun bear is the smallest, most arboreal and least known of the bear family , measuring between 120–150 cm long and between 60-78 cm high at the shoulder. Males tend to be larger than females, the former normally weighing between 30 and 70 kg, and the latter between 20 and 40 kg. They unlike other bears, the sun bear's dark brown or black fur is short and sleek, probably due to the lowland climates it lives in. On their chest sits a pale beige horseshoe shape marking which gives the sun bear its name being said to resemble a setting or rising sun. Similar colored fur can be found around the muzzle and the eyes.

Here, you can visit them, so you have a better understanding of them. Most importantly, we can hope that after some time with them to get along with you, allowing you to better understand why we want to protect them all. Some sun bears have the basic ability to survive. We will restore and release back into the wild bear appropriate orphans. For captive bear can not be released to provide an improved long life environment. To protect the sun bear, we must continue to increase research and habitat protection, increased knowledge and awareness, to further protect habitat, so that they live a peaceful life.

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.

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 :
Sandakan Memorial Park - 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.

Puh Jih Shih Buddhist Temple

St. Michael’s Church - a century old building where Christianity is preached.

Central Market - see the local produce and fresh seafood are being sold.

Agnes Keith Museum - learn about the life in the colonial days on Agnes & Harry Keith, who was the first conservator of the
Forestry Department in Sabah.

English Tea House - may have your own choices of refreshment (own expenses).

Itinerary
* The itinerary is for reference only, it subjects to any necessary changes in accordance to local requirements.

1st Day
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, watch the scheduled video programme (25 mins) at the Nature Education Center, and visit to the Exhibition Hall.

11:00 -
Advance to Borneon Sun Bear Conservation Centre.

12:00
Enjoy lunch.

13:00
Continue with Kinabatangan tour.

14:30
Arrive to Bilit, Kinabatangan River.

15:30
Have an afternoon tea with some local bites.

16:00
After a short briefing by the nature guide, take an afternoon cruise along Kinabatangan River where you can observe wildlife on the boat itself.

18:00
Return to the lodge for dinner.
Overnight at Bilit Adventure Lodge.

2nd Day
06:00
Wake up to the calls of gibbons and birds and start the day with an early river cruise.

07:30
Proceed back to the lodge for breakfast.

09:30
After breakfast, depart for a guided jungle walk through the riverine forest for wildlife sighting.

12:00
Transfer back to lodge for lunch.

16:00
After a short briefing by the nature guide, take an afternoon cruise along Kinabatangan River where you can observe wildlife on the boat itself.

18:00
Return to the lodge for dinner.
Overnight at Bilit Adventure Lodge.

3rd Day
07:30
Enjoy breakfast and check out.

08:30
Drive overland (25 mins) to reach Gomantong Cave to explore the largest limestone and bird nests cave in Sabah where millions of swiftlets make the cave their home.

10:30
Transfer to Sepilok Jungle Resort for lunch.

14:00
Afternoon, depart for Sandakan Nature City Tour.

17:00
End of service. Transfer to respective hotels

Reminder
Recommend to bring : raincoat (wet season Nov – Feb), cap/hat, insect repellent, sun cream, good walking shoes, socks, comfortable cotton T-shirt with long or short pant, binocular, camera, personal medications.