Sukau und Selingan

Program

Tag 1 : Sandakan – Selingan Island

Pick up from your Hotel in Sandakan or from the airport and transfer to the jetty, for a 75-minute boat ride to Selingan (Turtle Island). Check into your chalet. Rooms have twin beds with air conditioning and attached toilet and shower. Spend the rest of the day swimming or lazing on the beach. After dinner, you will be invited by a ranger to observe the turtle laying eggs on the beach. Later the eggs are transferred to the hatchery and if there are young turtles around, you can watch their release to the sea.

Accommodation : Selingan Turtel Island Chalet

Tag 2 : Selingan Island – Sukau 
Breakfast in the cafeteria before you depart the island at 7:00 am for Sandakan.  Proceed overland to the Gomantong Caves (about 2-hour ride), passing oil palm plantation and villages. Explore this fascinating cave, which is home to millions of swiftlets and bats. The swiftlet’s nets are collected for the famous Chinese Bird’s nest soup. Continue on to Sukau / Bilit and check into your lodge. Lunch at the lodge and some leisure time before your late afternoon cruise along Kinabatangan River in search for Proboscis monkeys and other forms of Wildlife. Return to the lodge for dinner.

Accommodation : Bilit Rainforest Lodge

Tag 3 : Sukau - Sandakan 
After breakfast, depart overland for the Sepilok Orangutan Centre. Experience a close encounter with the “Man of the Forest”, who are undergoing a rehabilitation program to return to the wild. After tour, transfer to your Hotel or to the airport for your onward journey.

The tour ends in Sandakan City or Airport