14 nights, 6 stops — borneo and the peninsula complete.
Kinabalu National Park → Sepilok → Kinabatangan River → Danum Valley Conservation Area → Mulu National Park → Belum-Temengor Rainforest.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Trails for red leaf monkeys, gibbons and the forest's grandeur. Dawn birding and a deeper forest walk among the giant trees.
Transfer to Mulu National Park. Explore the great show caves and watch the dusk bat exodus. Cave walkways by day and the bat spectacle at evening.
Cave walkways by day and the bat spectacle at evening. A rainforest and karst day, with the caves and their bats. Mulu's chambers are among the largest underground spaces on the planet — and the bat exodus is unforgettable.
Transfer to Belum-Temengor Rainforest. Boat the lake and bird the forest for the ten hornbill species. Trek to a rafflesia bloom and search for lowland mammals.
Trek to a rafflesia bloom and search for lowland mammals. A full day of lake and forest for hornbills and peninsular birds. Few forests on earth hold ten hornbill species — Belum-Temengor is one of them.
A final morning in Belum-Temengor Rainforest — 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.
The only lodge inside Danum Valley — a benchmark rainforest lodge amid primary forest.
A polished resort by the Melinau river, the comfortable base for the Mulu caves.
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.
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