BORNEO TRAVEL IDEAS
- Kuching, 3 days
- Kota Kinabalu, 3 days
- Essential Borneo, 9 days
- Mount Kinabalu, 3 days
- Mulu National Park, 3 days
- Sandakan Wildlife Safari, 3 days
- The Great Iban Longhouse Experience, 3 days
MALAYSIA TRAVEL IDEAS
OTHER TRAVEL IDEAS
Which include Malaysia
- Singapore to Kuala Lumpur, 4 days
- Kuala Lumpur to Bangkok, 5 days
- Singapore to Penang, 7 days
- Classic South East Asia, 10 days
STAYS OF DISTINCTION
Proboscis monkeys found only in Borneo
Mount Kinabalu, Borneo
Malaysian Borneo is home to the world's largest flowers and the world's largest caves.
Fortunately head-hunting is no longer practiced!
Borneo, Malaysia - Indonesia
For most visitors, the main interest on the island of Borneo is the diversity of ethnic groups and the vast areas of still untouched rainforests. Many of these ethnic groups live in longhouses. The longhouses are so unique because the entire population of the village lives under one roof. They are very hospitable to travellers and many visitors stay overnight in a longhouse during their visits.
Kuching, the capital of Sarawak is a riverine town. Located on the banks of the Sarawak River, it is approximately 32 kilometres from the sea. The town has beautifully landscaped parks and gardens, historic buildings, colourful markets, an interesting waterfront, a state mosque as well as Christian churches and Chinese temples. It has one of Asia's finest museums with an excellent collection of Borneo ethnological and archaeological material.
Kota Kinabalu is the state capital city for the province of Sabah, as evidenced by the many high rise buildings. The original town was razed during the Second World War and so a new carefully planned town was built. With a population of approximately 300,000 inhabitants, the city takes particular pride in its gold-domed State Mosque which is centrally positioned and overlooks most of the town. Blessed with seemingly perpetual blue skies, a seaside studded with coral islands and wooded mountains in the back-ground, Kota Kinabalu is still as welcoming as it was to the wind-blown mariners of old.
The historical city of Sandakan is the 2nd largest city in Sabah, and located on the east coast of Borneo. Sandakan is famous as the gateway for eco-tourism destinations in Sabah such as the Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary, the Turtle Islands Park, and the archaeological Gomantong Caves. It is also the notorious site of a World War II Japanese airfield which was built by the forced labour of Javanese civilians and Allied prisoners of war.
Turtle Island, Borneo
Mount Kinabalu National park
Mount Kinabalu is the tallest mountain in Malaysia at 4,095 meters above sea level, and the main peak can be climbed easily by someone with good physical condition that requires no special climbing equipments. It is located in Kinabalu National Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site for its outstanding and important biological sites in the world. Within this area, one can find some of the richest flora in the world ranging from lowland dipterocarp forest to the montane oak, rhododendron, and conifer forests of the middle altitudes and eventually to the alpine meadows and stunted, windswept bushes of the summit.
Mulu national park
Mulu National Park is home to the largest cave passage in the world, Dear Cave, which can fit five cathedrals the size of Saint Paul's in London. The Clear Water Cave is the longest cave in Southeast Asia. Mulu National Park is a paradise for naturalist, where one can expect to find the best examples of tropical limestone weathering in the world, including enormous razor sharp pinnacles, and deep cut canyons. Mulu Park is known to have 1,500 species of flowering plants, 170 species of wild orchids and 67 species of animals.
Mulu Lang Cave, Borneo