Sabah Wildlife Highlights
What you'll see
The journey, one day at a time
Arrive Sepilok
Arrive in Sepilok, met and transferred to your accommodation. Sepilok eases you into Borneo with near-guaranteed orangutans before the wilder forests.
Sepilok
A morning at the rehabilitation centre and an afternoon at the Discovery Centre. Visit the orangutan and sun bear centres, then bird the canopy walkway.
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.
To Danum Valley Conservation Area
Transfer to Danum Valley Conservation Area. Walk the primary forest and canopy walkway for orangutans and birds. A night drive in search of clouded leopard and nocturnal mammals.
Danum Valley Conservation Area
A night drive in search of clouded leopard and nocturnal mammals. Trails for red leaf monkeys, gibbons and the forest's grandeur. Danum's never-logged forest shows what the island once was — and is among the last places to find it intact.
Danum Valley Conservation Area
Trails for red leaf monkeys, gibbons and the forest's grandeur. Dawn birding and a deeper forest walk among the giant trees.
Departure
A final morning in Danum Valley Conservation Area — 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 the canopy walkway and birding.
Good season
The centres run year-round, rain or shine.
Hand-picked camps & lodges
Borneo Rainforest Lodge
The only lodge inside Danum Valley — a benchmark rainforest lodge amid primary forest.
Sukau Rainforest Lodge
A pioneering eco lodge on the Kinabatangan, National Geographic Unique Lodges, superb for the river cruises.
Kinabatangan Wetlands Resort
A comfortable riverside resort with easy access to the wildlife corridor.
Sepilok Nature Resort
A garden resort beside the orangutan centre, the comfortable Sepilok base.
Danum Valley Field Centre
Research-station accommodation in Danum, simple but right in the primary forest.
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.