hornbill-expedition
What you'll see
The journey, one day at a time
Arrive Belum-Temengor Rainforest
Arrive in Belum-Temengor Rainforest, met and transferred to your accommodation. Few forests on earth hold ten hornbill species — Belum-Temengor is one of them.
Belum-Temengor Rainforest
Trek to a rafflesia bloom and search for lowland mammals. A full day of lake and forest for hornbills and peninsular birds.
Belum-Temengor Rainforest
A full day of lake and forest for hornbills and peninsular birds. Boat the lake and bird the forest for the ten hornbill species.
To Kinabatangan River
Transfer to Kinabatangan River. Dawn and dusk river cruises for proboscis monkeys, orangutans and elephants. Boat the oxbow lakes and tributaries for birds and crocodiles.
Kinabatangan River
Boat the oxbow lakes and tributaries for birds and crocodiles. A night walk for civets, frogs and roosting birds, plus more river time. Nowhere else delivers Borneo's headline mammals as reliably, or as comfortably, as the Kinabatangan.
Kinabatangan River
A night walk for civets, frogs and roosting birds, plus more river time.
Kinabatangan River
Dawn and dusk river cruises for proboscis monkeys, orangutans and elephants.
Departure
A final morning in Kinabatangan River — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
The season changes what you see.
Peak season
Drier months — best for boating, trails and hornbill watching.
Good season
Hornbills and forest birds are present throughout.
Hand-picked camps & lodges
Sukau Rainforest Lodge
A pioneering eco lodge on the Kinabatangan, National Geographic Unique Lodges, superb for the river cruises.
Belum Rainforest Resort
A resort on an island in Lake Temenggor, the base for the hornbill and forest trips.
Kinabatangan Wetlands Resort
A comfortable riverside resort with easy access to the wildlife corridor.
Belum Eco Resort
A simpler lakeside eco resort, good value for the Belum rainforest.
Bilit Rainforest Lodge
A relaxed riverside lodge at Bilit, good value for the dawn and dusk cruises.
Make it yours.
Add nights, swap a park, extend to the coast — this route is a starting point, not a fixed menu. Tell us how you travel and we'll route the rest.