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Malaysian Borneo - Sabah

TRIPS TO THIS AREA WILL BE AVAILABLE IN 2012. STAY TUNED FOR SOME GREAT EXPEDITIONS THEN!

Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary - Sandakan
Travel Type :  Small groups and Family Friendly.
Activities : Orangutan viewing, wildlife viewing,bird watching and more.
Accommodation : More information to come soon.
Transport : More information to come soon.
How this helps Orangutans : More information to come.
Expeditions : More information to come in 2012

The Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre was set up in 1964 to rehabilitate orphaned baby orang utan. Set in the lush 4,300-hectare Kabili-Sepilok Forest Reserve, the Centre under the administration of the Wildlife Department of Sabah attracts tourists and researchers alike, giving them 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 milk and bananas twice a day at 10.00am and 3.00pm by rangers. Feeding time also attracts long-tailed macaques to the area.

 

While orang utan rehabilitation is still the primary goal at Sepilok, it also focuses on public education on conservation, research and assistance on other endangered species such as the rhinoceros.

Visitors are restricted to walkways. Some orang utan have become familiar with people but touching them is strongly discouraged, and while the apes are naturally shy and gentle, the more mischievous ones may try to grab your camera or hat, in which case you should call for a ranger as trying to wrestle the 200 pound apes may not be a good idea.

Kinabatangan River
Sandakan

Travel Type :  Small groups and Family Friendly.
Activities : Orangutan viewing, wildlife viewing,bird watching and more Accommodation : More information to come soon.
Transport : More information to come soon.
How this helps Orangutans : More information to come.
Expeditions : More information to come in 2012

Stretching 560km 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 surrounding areas along the river consist of five distinct habitats - dipterocarp or dry, waterlogged and limestone forests, and freshwater and saline swamps. 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.

Other than being home to Borneo's indigenous orang utan and proboscis monkey, the surrounding forest is also one of only two known places in the world where 10 species of primates are found. All the eight species of hornbill found in Borneo make the area their home.

A trip up the river at dawn or dusk is the best opportunity to see the wildlife. You might even sight an Asian elephant or a Sumatran rhinoceros wandering through the trees. Optional tours can be arranged for night safaris as well to spot crocodiles, birds and nocturnal animals.