Day
1 London/Kuching
Depart
London Heathrow by Malaysia Airlines.
Day
2 Kuching
After
changing at Kuala Lumpur, fly to Kuching
and transfer to the Holiday Inn
Kuching for a 2-night stay (Room & Breakfast).
Day
3 Kuching & Sarawak Cultural Village
A
memorable day sightseeing (lunch included) in the the interesting
state capital and the impressive Sarawak Cultural Village - an outstanding
collection of traditional houses of the Iban and other tribes.
Day
4 Kuching/Skrang River
Today's
5-hour drive into the Sarawak interior takes you through rubber and
pepper plantations to the Skrang river (lunch en route). Board a longboat
for a 30-minute ride beneath the rainforest canopy before reaching
a traditional Iban longhouse community. A welcome drink and tour of
the longhouse are followed by dinner and a lively evening Iban dance
and cultural performance, accompanied by rice wine. Overnight in the
nearby resthouse.
Day
5 Skrang River/Kuching
A
free morning to explore community, its lifestyle and exotic forest-and-river
setting. Enjoy lunch (with bamboo steamed rice!) by a waterfall before
returning to Kuching. Overnight at the Holiday
Inn Kuching (Room & Breakfast).
Day
6 Kuching/Gunung Mulu National Park
Morning
transfer for your flight to Miri and connection to Gunung
Mulu National Park - where the Royal
Mulu Resort is your base for a 2-night stay (Full Board). After
lunch, a short boat journey and a 45-minute walk on a raised plankwalk
through lowland rainforest and peat swamp bring you to the world-famous
Lang Caves. View the immense limestone formations of stalactites and
stalagmites; wander through the largest cave passage of Deer Cave
to the Garden of Eden; and witness the amazing exodus of thousands
of bats at sunset.
Day 7 Gunung Mulu National Park
Journey
by longboat (45 minutes) to the Wind Caves, nowhere more breathtaking
than in the King's Room. Continue to Clearwater Caves to see the 100-km-long
subterranean river passage that forms South east Asia's longest cave
system. Lunch at Clearwater River before returning to the Royal
Mulu Resort.
Day
8 Gunung Mulu National Park/Kota Kinabalu
Fly
by Vision Air to Kota Kinabalu, the
Sabah capital. Transfer to the Hyatt
Regency Kinabalu for a 2-night stay (Room & Breakfast).
Day
9 Tunku Abdul Rahman Park
A
delightful day enjoying the exotic tropical island mood of the Tunku
Abdul Rahman Park. First you take a short boat crossing to Gaya Island,
to explore the jungle trails and to learn about the unique local ecology.
Then cross to Sapi Island to swim, snorkel and enjoy a picnic lunch.
Return mid-afternoon to the Hyatt
Regency Kinabalu.
Day
10 Kota Kinabalu/Kinabalu National Park
Leave
after breakfast for the 130-km drive to Poring, set 450 metres above
sea level amid the dense tropical lowland rainforest of this spectacular
reserve. Lunch is included, with ample time to explore the jungle
trails and treetop canopy walkways, to visit Kipungit Waterfall and
to relax in one of the hot sulphur pools! Overnight at Fairy Garden
Resort (Dinner and Breakfast).
Day
11 Kinabalu National Park/Kota Kinabalu
This
morning drive up to the park headquarters at Kundasang and the Visitor
Centre and Mountain Garden. On a guided walk on one of the cool mountain
forest trails, you'll meet more of the Park's rich diversity of flowering
rhododendrons, carnivorous pitcher plants, orchids and over 300 species
of birds. Return mid-afternoon to the Hyatt
Regency Kinabalu for an overnight stay (Room & Breakfast)
Day
12 Kota Kinabalu/Sepilok/Sukau
A
morning flight brings you to Sandakan,
home of the world-renowned Sepilok Orang Utan
Rehabilitation Centre. A 10-minute rainforest walk allows a close-up
view of the morning feeding of the sanctuary's endearing residents!
Continue by boat (approx. 2 hours) along Sabah's longest river, the
meandering Kinabantangan - viewing birds and wildlife - to Sukau
Rainforest Lodge for a 2-night stay, with Full Board. (Note: the
Sandakan-Sukau boat service operates Mons, Weds and Fris. On other
days the journey is by road, visiting Gomantong Caves en route instead
of on Day 14). At sunset enjoy a 2-hour cruise by electric motor boat
in search of Sukau's 10 primate species (including the comical Proboscis
monkey) as they settle high in the riverside trees. Return for a solar
heated shower, candlelight dinner and slide show.
Day
13 Kinabatangan River
Wake
up to the calls of gibbons and hornbills before a dawn river cruise
for bird and wildlife viewing. Visit the Kelenanap ox-bow lake for
a short jungle walk (weather permitting), with the option of participating
in the lodge's tree-planting conservation project. After lunch enjoy
more leisurely river cruising in this magical setting. Come nightfall,
there's an exciting optional safari cruise spotting nocturnal animals,
crocodiles and birds.
Day
14 Sukau/Kota Kinabalu
After
breakfast visit Sukau Village by boat before a short overland journey
- followed by a guided 20 minute walk through the rainforest - to
the awesome Gomantong Caves, habitat of countless bats, swiftlets
and crabs Continue to Sandakan (lunch) for a short tour and a brief
tea break in one of the water village houses. Transfer to airport
for a late-afternoon flight to Kota Kinabalu, and transfer on arrival
to the Hyatt Regency Kinabalu for overnight (Room & Breakfast).
Day
15 Kota Kinabalu/London
Transfer
to the airport for your the flight to Kuala Lumpur and overnight connection
to London Heathrow.
Day
16 London
Morning
arrival London Heathrow
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