Day 1 - Kota Kinabalu
You will be met on arrival and transferred to your hotel. The rest of the day is free at leisure.

Day 2 - Kota Kinabalu / Kinabalu Park
After breakfast, depart Kota Kinabalu and travel for two hours along the ridges of the Crocker Range to Kinabalu Park. Enjoy superb mountain views as you travel to the Park at 1524 meters. Explore one of the many trails that lead through tropical Montane Oak and Chestnut Forest. Kinabalu is a botanist's paradise with over a thousand species of orchids, numerous different rhododendrons and pitcher plants. The bird life is equally fascinating with most species being montane, including a number of endemics.
Overnight at Hill Lodge National Park

Day 3 - Hill Lodge National Park / Poring Hot Springs
After breakfast, proceed by road to Poring Hot Springs at the Southern end of Kinabalu Park. Lowland dipterocarp forest makes up most of the vegetation at Poring and it is an excellent place to view lowland birds and some mammals. Take a short trek into the forest to the Canopy Walkway for a bird's eye view of the tropical rainforest. The Canopy Walkway is suspended between trees at the height of 40 meters and offers an excellent opportunity to observe wildlife in the canopy.
Overnight at Jungle Lodge

Day 4 - Gomantong Cave / Sukau / Kinabatangan River
After breakfast travel from Poring Hot Spring and drive overland easterly to the district of Sandakan. The drive will take 5 hours passing through scenic countryside. Visit the Gomantong Caves where the bizarre edible bird's nest are harvested as they have been for hundreds of years. The caves are also home to more than a million bats. The birdlife around the cave is particularly rich, with crested serpent eagles, kingfishers, Asian fairy bluebirds and leaf birds often sighted. Continue the journey to the village of Sukau at the Kinabatangan River where the greatest concentration of wildlife in Malaysia and possibly all of Borneo, can be found. Stay overnight at the riverside traditional style.

Day 5 - Kinabatangan Riverside Lodge,Sukau River Lodge
Kinabatangan River - Boat trips for the day at the river to view numerous species of wildlife such as Orangutans, macaques, red and silver leaf monkeys, elephants, hornbills, crocodiles, civet cats, otters and the most famous creature: the proboscis monkeys. Found only in Borneo, the male of this species has a large pendulous nose, fat belly, thick white tail and webbed feet. The bird life includes egret, kingfisher, oriental darter, bee-eater, hornbill and many more.

Day 6 - Abai Jungle Lodge
Take an early morning trek to the trail behind the lodge. After early breakfast, cruise down slowly in search of different kinds of birds along the Kinabatangan River, the longest river in Sabah. Check in to Abai Jungle Lodge. After lunch, free and relax at our nature boardwalk before cruising in search of other wildlife or birds. After dinner, a night cruise leads you to witness the nature of fireflies in the form of Christmas trees.
Overnight at Abai Jungle Lodge

Day 7 - Abai Jungle Lodge / Selingan Turtle Island
Take a boat ride to the nearby Selingan Island where the most important turtle breeding Marine Park is found in all of South East Asia. It is a rare experience to watch the huge green turtles lumber ashore every night, dig a hole with their flippers and lay around 100 eggs. The rangers will transfer these eggs to a hatchery for incubation for 50-60 days before hatchlings breakout of their shells and scramble up through the sand and make their way to the sea. Only 3% are likely to survive due to disease and depredation. If females do survive, they will return in 20 years or so to the very beach where they themselves were hatched to repeat the cycle.
Overnight at Selingan Island Chalet with attach bathroom

Day 8 - Selingan Island / Sepilok Orangutan Centre
After breakfast, take a boat transfer back to Sandakan mainland and take a short drive to the famous Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre. Founded in 1964 the Centre helps once captive orangutans learn to climb and fend for themselves in the wild with the hope that one-day they may return to the forest. The semi-wild orangutans may return to the platform provided by the Centre for milk and bananas twice a day during the process of returning to the forest. You will get a close up view of these orangutans and have the chance to photograph them at close range. Later you will be transferred to Sandakan airport for an afternoon flight to Kota Kinabalu.