DAY 1 – SANDAKAN / SELINGAN TURTLE ISLAND

09:00 hrs Pickup from hotel & Proceed to Jetty for boat to Selingan Island
10:15 hrs Scheduled boat to Selingan island, check in chalet with attached bathroom.
12:30 hrs Lunch and free at leisure
19:30 hrs Dinner and start the program.

Selingan Turtle Island
After lunch, free at leisure until dinner time at 19:30 hrs. You can swim at the designated beach area and snorkelling gears are available for rent with charges on the island.

Before going for dinner, make sure all your important/valuable things are with you and do not leave it in your room. Please do not go back to your room after dinner because at any time, the rangers will call to observe turtle laying eggs. Transfer the eggs to the hatchery and if there is any young turtle hatching, an opportunity to observe the release of the baby turtles to the sea.

Remarks: The Selingan Island chalet is about 500m away from the beach. There is NO PORTER Service on the island. Therefore, you have to carry your own luggage from the boat to your chalet. We highly advise you to re-pack your clothing for your duration stay in order to have a more comfortable stay at Selingan Island. We do have a luggage room available at our jetty.

Meals: Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Selingan Turtle Island (Standard Twin)

DAY 2 – SELINGAN ISLAND/SEPILOK ORANNG UTAN-SUNBEAR

Breakfast at the restaurant

Breakfast at the restaurant

After breakfast, depart Selingan Island and return to the Sandakan. Proceed to the world-renowned Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre to witness the feeding of the iconic Orang Utan and a good opportunity to photograph these natural primates in their natural habitat. The centre was established in 1964 to help rehabilitate the Orang Utans which had been orphaned, or displaced by logging and clearing of secondary forests for plantation. The magnificent mixed dipterocarp forest offers a natural home to the Orang Utans, which slowly become less dependent on their twice-daily feeding of milk and bananas at the centre and eventually return voluntarily to the wild. (B/L) Lunch at Borneo Sepilok Rainforest Restaurant.

After lunch, continue to the Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre. You can now get close to the world’s smallest bear in its natural forest environment. These adorable Sun Bear is losing their habitat through deforestation. The mission of the centre is to promote sun bear conservation in Borneo through animal welfare, conservation, rehabilitation, education and research – giving captured sun bears a better home and restoring their right to live in the wild. Visitors will be able to peek in on their activity from the walkway as they lumbered and played in open-air forest enclosures. Drop off at Sandakan Airport or at your respective hotel.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch