4D3N Sandakan Nature Experience

Pick up from hotel, transfer to CQ Jetty for Selingan Turtle Island. This journey by motorized boat will take about 1 hour. After lunch, grab your mask, fins and snorkel and head to the beach where you can find lots of juvenile marine life. Or, you can choose to relax or sun bathing by the beach. Before dinner, treat yourself to a slide show featuring information of the Turtle Park and turtles. After dinner, standby at the Cafeteria. Wait for Park Ranger’s signal before proceed in a small group to the egg-laying site to witness the mother turtle laying eggs, transferring of eggs to the hatchery and releasing of hatchlings to the sea.

Overnight at Selingan Island, Park Chalet.

Photographing of turtles only with camera of unaided flash. Snorkelling gears are available to hire (Please refer to the Island).

0600hrs, wake up early in the morning and have your breakfast at 0630hrs. By 0700hrs, depart the Island and return to mainland. Proceed to Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre, watching one of the nature’s most endangered animal species, the ‘Orang Utan’ or ‘Man of the Jungle’, in local language swing from branches to branches towards to the feeding station in the forest. After Sepilok, proceed to Sun Bear Conservation Center to see the world’s smallest bear in its natural environment. Lunch en route at SJR. After lunch, we drive overland to Bilit, Kinabatangan River. Arrive at Bilit around 1430hrs, check into your accommodation. By 1530hrs, have an afternoon tea with some local bites. After a short briefing by the nature guide, take an afternoon cruise (4.00pm) along the Kinabatangan River, where you can observe wildlife on the boat itself. Overnight (2 nights) at Bilit Adventure Lodge, Standard A/C Room

Wake up early in the morning to start the day with an early river cruise at about 6.00am. After the boat cruise, proceed back to Bilit Lodge for breakfast. Late morning, depart for a guided nature jungle walk to experience the riverine forest. Trek back to Bilit Lodge. Freshen up, have lunch. Rest. Enjoy afternoon tea break at local house. Late afternoon, get ready for another afternoon river cruise to a different part of the river to see more wildlife gather along the Kinabatangan River. Dinner and second night stay at Bilit Adventure Lodge. (Superior A/C Room)

Wake up early in the morning to start the day with an early river cruise at about 6.00am. After the 1 hours boat cruise, proceed back to Bilit Lodge for breakfast. By 0830 hrs, depart Bilit to Sandakan for lunch followed by Sandakan City Tour. Visit to Sandakan Memorial Park, Puu Jih Shih Buddhist Temple, and St. Michael’s Church. Drive to the Central Market where you can see the local produce and fresh seafood being sold. Visit to the Agnes Keith Museum to learn about the life in the colonial days on Agnes & Harry Keith. Final stop at the nearby English Tea House where you may have another spectacular view of Sandakan Nature City. Here, you may have your own choices of refreshment (own account). After tours, transfer to Sandakan Airport for your flight back home.