Small group tours to Borneo

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Where to see orangutans in Sabah The large, equatorial island of Borneo comprises the two Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak – covering the far north and northwest respectively – and the Indonesian region of Kalimantan, by far the largest portion of the island.  Our where to see orangutans in Sabah post, however, is therefore restricted to the former of…

What to see and do in Sarawak Although official Tourism Malaysia statistics claim more visitors to Sarawak than Sabah, we suspect this is inflated by domestic tourists as well as visitors from neighbouring Kalimantan since, in our experience of running Borneo tours, Sabah clearly proves the more popular of the two among Western travellers. Sabah has well-known Kinabatangan, Danum Valley,…

Pulau Dinawan Spend a day on a tropical island in the South China Sea and do some good for the environment at the same time with a visit to Borneo’s Pulau Dinawan and the Ara Dinawan Research Conservation Centre. Lying a short distance off the coast of Malaysia’s Sabah State – just south of the capital Kota Kinabalu – this…

Kuching The ‘City of Cats’, Kuching, is the capital of Malaysia’s Sarawak State on Borneo Island. (Note, that’s nothing to do with furry animals but the nickname actually (apparently) derives from a tributary of the Sarawak River along which the city was founded and which in turn was named after a common local fruit, the cat’s eye longan.) Kuching was…

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