After dinner it was time for our night boat safari. As we cruised along the river our guide used a spot light to search for gleaming eyes. It was difficult to spot wildlife in the dark, and I soon realized that the real show was the stars overhead. Seeing the stars from the Borneo jungle, […]
We were in Borneo to see wildlife and high on our list was a boat safari on the Kinabatangan River. I looked online for tours and most of the ones I found were around $500/person for 3-5 days, which was more than we wanted to spend! Then I found Uncle Tan’s Wildlife Adventure, which was
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Sepilok Forest Edge Resort Sandakan still wasn’t in the jungle, so we decided to move to Sepilok Forest Edge Resort, near the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Center. We paid quite a bit more ($35?) for a nice bungalow, but now we could actually see the jungle from our balcony. We checked out of Hotel London in
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We both liked Kota Kinabalu (KK), but we had come to Borneo for the rain forest, and we still were not in the rain forest. In order to see some wildlife we needed to get to Sandakan, a town which is used as a base camp for ventures into the jungle. One option was a
Rafflesia is the largest type of flower in the world! It grows in Borneo and was on our list of plants and wildlife we hoped to see during our Borneo adventure. The difficult part is that it’s hard to predict when a flower will be in bloom and once a flower blooms it only lasts
I had heard of the Borneo rainforest, but I had no idea where it was. When we started planning this trip we bought Lonely Planet’s Guide to Southeast Asia on a Shoestring. When I looked on the map I saw that Borneo was located in Malaysia and Indonesia- countries we were planning to visit! So