Sandakan to Bilit Rainforest Lodge

We left Sandakan and visited the Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary, arriving at feeding time.
We had good views of 3 males. The family troupe were off in the forest and hadn’t been seen for a few days. We also saw a few Oriental Pied Hornbill.
We then drove 2 hours on a good bitumen road to the water taxi for Bilit Lodge.
Our route went almost exclusively through Palm Oil plantations. Some of these had replaced rubber plantations, however there was plenty of evidence of areas of jungle that had recently been cleared and planted with Palms.
After a short water taxi ride we had some time to ourselves in the Air-conditioning as it was very hot and humid.
Bilit Lodge is on the Kinabatangan River. In the late afternoon we took a game viewing trip up the river seeing a number of birds and a couple of Pigmy Elephants.
On our return the heavens opened and it chucked it down with rain along with thunder and lightning.
Our guide - Brenden - set up a WhatsApp group page and we are able to benefit from some of the great photos taken by him and fellow travellers with good cameras.Read more