8 nights, 3 stops — mountain, centre and river for the camera.
Kinabalu National Park → Sepilok → Kinabatangan River.
Round trip · returns to Kinabalu
Arrive in Kinabalu National Park, met and transferred to your accommodation. Kinabalu adds the montane dimension — endemics and flora found only in the cool cloud forest.
Walk the mountain garden trails for pitcher plants and orchids. A dawn start for the highland birds below Mount Kinabalu.
A dawn start for the highland birds below Mount Kinabalu.
Transfer to Sepilok. Visit the orangutan and sun bear centres, then bird the canopy walkway. A morning at the rehabilitation centre and an afternoon at the Discovery Centre.
A morning at the rehabilitation centre and an afternoon at the Discovery Centre. Sepilok eases you into Borneo with near-guaranteed orangutans before the wilder forests.
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.
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.
A night walk for civets, frogs and roosting birds, plus more river time.
A final morning in Kinabatangan River — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
Driest, clearest highland weather for birds and the mountain.
Montane birds are resident; mist and rain are common at altitude.
A pioneering eco lodge on the Kinabatangan, National Geographic Unique Lodges, superb for the river cruises.
A comfortable lodge near Kinabalu Park HQ, well-placed for the montane birding.
A garden resort beside the orangutan centre, the comfortable Sepilok base.
A comfortable riverside resort with easy access to the wildlife corridor.
A hillside resort with mountain views, a practical base for the cloud-forest trails.
A relaxed resort near the Sepilok centres, good value for the wildlife and birding.
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