Nature Lodge Kinabatangan
Nature Lodge Kinabatangan is located within Kampung Bilit, a village along Kinabatangan River and takes its name from the white trunk Kabilit trees found in the nearby forest. Logging and clearing for plantations have devastated the upper reaches of the river, but by a strange irony the riverine forest near the coast is so hemmed in by oil palm plantations that an astonishing variety of wildlife is easily seen ...
Sepilok Jungle Resort
The Sepilok Jungle Resort, enclosed inside a tropical virgin rainforest, adjacent to the world famous Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary,
Sandakan, will take you back in time when humans were closer to nature. It is set amidst beautiful landscape gardens and thousands of acres of tropical rainforest. The Sepilok Jungle Resort is truly the perfect getaway for a rejuvenating experience ...
Sandakan is the second-largest town in the state of Sabah, East Malaysia, on the north-eastern of island of Borneo. It is located on the east coast of the island and had a population of 347,334 as of the 2000 census. About 18% of the population is ethnic Chinese ( mostly Cantonese and Hakka ). The rest of the population are Bumiputeras ( Malay, Bajau, Dusun, etc ) and a large population of illegal immigrants ( mostly Filipino and Indonesian ). It is the administrative centre of Sandakan Division and was the former capital of British North Borneo. Sandakan is known as the gateway for ecotourism destinations in Sabah, such as the Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary, Turtle Islands Park, Kinabatangan River and Gomantong Caves. The area is also infamous as the site of a World War II Japanese airfield, built by the forced labour of 6,000 Javanese civilians and Allied prisoners of war. In 1945 the surviving prisoners were sent on the Sandakan Death Marches; only about 10 of them survived the war.
