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- Nov 26, 2023, 5:48pm
- 🌧 25 °C
- Altitude: 166 m
- Malaysia Sabah Sungai Sapat Berbandir 5.020003, 117.7472135°1’12” N 117°44’50” E
Day 213
Kota Kinabalu to Danum Valley
November 26, 2023 in Malaysia ⋅ 🌧 25 °C
Up early and a taxi to the airport for our 7.30am flight to Lahad Datu. On arrival we were met by the tour company and taken to the office to check in. We then had a two and a half hour drive through the forest to the Borneo Rainforest Lodge.

After our welcome drink we had lunch and waited for our room to be ready. At 3pm we went for our briefing and then for our first walk.

We set off along the road and headed for the canopy walkway, a sequence of suspension bridges through the canopy. We saw a few birds including the crested serpent eagle.

After the walk we had some time to ourselves for a shower and dinner. After dinner we hopped into a buggy and went for a night drive. We saw giant red squirrel and lesser mouse deer.Read more
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- Nov 27, 2023
- 🌧 29 °C
- Altitude: 165 m
- Malaysia Sabah Sungai Sapat Berbandir 5.019802, 117.7470065°1’11” N 117°44’49” E
Day 214
Danum valley day 1
November 27, 2023 in Malaysia ⋅ 🌧 29 °C
Up early to the noise of the jungle and we set off walking at 8am. Our walk was to the coffin cliffs and view point. It was hot, wet, muddy and there were leeches. We walked for abo2 hours up the hill to the coffin cliffs and saw the bones of the tribal ancestors. At the view point we could see out across the forest. Back at the lodge we cleaned our shoes and had a shower before lunch. We then had a little time to watch the world go by before our afternoon trek.

We set off through the jungle again, this walk was muddier, wetter and leechier than this morning! We walked for about 3 hours but after 2 there was a huge storm and it rained on us. Once back at the lodge we sort of got dry and then got ready for our night walk.

It had just stopped raining so it was damp but ok. We saw a few different things before heading back for dinner and bed.

Today we saw:
Red leaf monkeys
Long tailed macaque
Birds
Leeches
Frogs
Slow loris
Civet cat
Conago
Lizard
Mud
Pygmy elephant footprints
Owls 🦉Read more
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- Nov 28, 2023, 10:42am
- ☀️ 29 °C
- Altitude: 199 m
- Malaysia Sabah Sungai Sapat Berbandir 5.02867, 117.7500135°1’43” N 117°45’0” E
Day 215
Danum valley day 2
November 28, 2023 in Malaysia ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
We were awoken at5am by rustling around the house, no idea what it was. After breakfast we were putting our leech socks on and a troupe of red leaf monkeys came to the trees by the lodge. After watching them for a while we set off along the trails. Within 10 minutes we saw a mum and baby orangutan 🦧 🦧 in the trees across the river. We watched them for a while and then continued along the hornbill trail. There were quite a few hornbills so well named, but there were more mud and leeches!

We walked through the jungle for about an hour and a half and suddenly the cry came ‘ orangutan’ 🦧 🦧 🦧. Up in the tree there were three, mum, baby and child. Apparently this is unusual as mums only have 1 child at a time. We watched them eating the fruit and moving around the tree for ages.

We were just about at the road so it was a quick walk back to the lodge, where another female orangutan 🦧 was in the tree. We then went to the shoe wash station and cleaned and deleeched our shoes. Back in the room, after the leech check, Simon was hanging out some wet clothes and a neighbour said there was an orangutan 🦧 on the path outside the room. We went outside and there he was, shaking the bushes. Apparently he didn’t like the group watching as he charged them and they scarpered. We watched from afar as he made his way through the underbrush and then to a tree. 7 wild orangutans before lunch!

After a shower we went for lunch and then an afternoon to ourselves. After a little nap I sat on the deck and saw some samba deer 🦌 and a lesser fish eagle.

At 4.30pm we met the guide for our dusk walk. We went back along the muddy leech trail from yesterday and took a different turning, coming out at the canopy bridges. We climbed up to the first pylon and waited for dusk. Just before it went dark a giant red squirrel came out from a hole in the tree, climbed up and then leaped, gliding across to another tree.

We then walked back to the main road and slowly walked back to the lodge in the dark. We saw another Colugo, this time I saw it glide between trees.

Back at the lodge we demudded and it deleeched before a shower. I washed my hair for the third time today and it was needed!

Dinner at the lodge and bed, ready for an early start tomorrow.Read more
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- Nov 29, 2023, 6:17am
- ⛅ 22 °C
- Altitude: 162 m
- Malaysia Sabah Sungai Sapat Berbandir 5.019945, 117.7466585°1’12” N 117°44’48” E
Day 216
Danum Valley to Kota Kinabalu
November 29, 2023 in Malaysia ⋅ ⛅ 22 °C
Up very early to the sound of jungle insects. We saw a troupe of long tailed macaques by the river and then went for our final lodge breakfast.

After breakfast we set out along the Danum trail, finding lots more mud and leeches as we went. At the end of the trail we came to o bend in the river and walked out onto the rocks. The guide then told us that the male orangutan we’d been looking for was now at the lodge.

We set off back and went straight to where he knew it was. We first approached from the raised platform but the orangutan 🦧 threatened us so we backed off quickly.

Instead we approached from the ground and he tolerated us. We were able to stand and watch him for ages as he relaxed and munched his fruit, drooling 🤤 and dribbling because he was enjoying it so much.

As time ran out we returned to the lodge for the final leech check and mud removal and then back to the room for showers and packing. We then checked out and had lunch before the 2.5 hours drive back to Lahad Datu airport and the flight to Kota Kinabalu.

On arrival we collected our bags and got a grab to the hotel where we had dinner and bed, ignoring the pile of stinking clothes!Read more
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