Day by day
- Day1
Sandakan – Kinabatangan
Meals: Lunch & Dinner
- Pickup from Sandakan airport or your hotel (Sandakan area)
- Stop at Gomantong Cave, one of Sabah's largest limestone caves, home of the swiftlets that make edible bird's nests
- Check in at Sukau Backpackers, lunch and rest
- First river cruise until 18:00: proboscis monkeys, hornbills, kingfishers and macaques. Good chance (not guaranteed) of Borneo elephants and wild orangutans
- Night river safari after dinner
- Back to the lodge for the night
- Day2
Kinabatangan – Selingan Island
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
- Check out and travel back to Sandakan for registration at the Sabah Parks jetty
- Boat to Selingan Island, about 1 hour depending on the sea
- Check in at the chalet, then lunch at the Selingan cafeteria
- Free afternoon: swim, snorkel or relax on the white sand beach
- The beach closes to visitors while park rangers watch for turtles coming ashore
- After dinner, on the rangers' signal, watch a turtle lay her eggs, the eggs moved to the hatchery and baby turtles released to the sea
- Overnight in your chalet
- Day3
Selingan Island – Sandakan
Meals: Breakfast
- Breakfast
- Check out and boat back to Sandakan
Included
- 1 night in a standard room at Sukau Backpackers
- 1 night in a chalet on Selingan Island
- Meals as stated in the itinerary
- 2 river cruises in Sukau
- Entrance and camera fees for Gomantong Cave
- Return land and boat transfers
- Guide
Not included
- All airfares
- Optional activities
- Professional camera fee
- Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks
- Personal travel insurance
- Tips, porters and anything not listed above
What to bring
- Lightweight clothing or cotton shirts
- Long sleeves
- Walking shoes
- Lightweight rucksack
- Personal toiletries and medication
- Hat
- Sunblock and insect repellent
- Poncho or raincoat
- Binoculars
- Camera