[Sabah trip, 27-Mar-2006] Our destination was to visit Sepilok’s Orang Utan Sanctuary.. said to be the world’s largest and oldest Orang Utan rehabilitation centre.
We rented a coach (a van actually) to drive us from Kota Kinabalu to Sepilok, which will took us an estimated 8 hours to reach there.
The driver AhBoi was a cute and good looking guy, the gals all went crazy about him.. all the way during the trip was “AhBoi this.. AhBoi that.. AhBoi blah blah.. AhBoi.. AhBoi..”
On the way we got the chance to have a look at Mount Kinabalu from a close range.. it was grand and majestic.. and that’s the mountain that we would climb the next day.
We reached Sepilok at around 330pm and checked in to the lounge, and was told that the Orang Utan park was supposed to close at 4pm.
We rushed to the park in hopes of catching some shadows of the apes, despite being told at the ticket counter that we were not guaranteed to see any of the Orang Utans because of the time constraint, we still got in anyway.
We search and we search.. and luckily a few of the Orang Utans were still at the feeding spot enjoying their meals.
8 hours of travel to see a few apes that can be seen at some zoos, so was it worth it? I still have no clue until now, well probably yes.. at least I can tell the world that I’d been to Sepilok to see Orang Utans.
The lounge we were staying was quite a nice place, the owner was actually from my hometown Ipoh (as well as most of my travel mates). We had some great chat and she recommended us a better route to travel Sabah next time, which I will reveal later.
(The 2 orang utan photos were taken by my travel pal, Za)
April 6th, 2006 at 4:30 am
i think it IS pinang
April 6th, 2006 at 9:01 am
I thought so too..
April 6th, 2006 at 6:56 pm
nice! love the photos!
April 8th, 2006 at 12:01 am
cool pics… and looks like is a nice trip… ^^ and thanks for your birthday wishes
April 8th, 2006 at 9:38 pm
shame shame.. the orang utan made a split and showed off his/her XXX hahahha!
come, let’s kidnap ahboi, so that we can have the girls instead haha!
April 9th, 2006 at 10:52 pm
ade.. glad you like it
cherrie.. yupe the trip is nice, and you are welcome
aiyo kampungkai.. orang utan you also want to peep arh? Kidnap ahboi arh? Okie I will send you his address, you do it :p
April 21st, 2006 at 7:20 pm
the pics r beautiful, except for d split thing i dunno bout that ;D
i dunno wat that fruit is anyway??
was it really worth it ? i like 2 go back 2 sabah someday n i would really like 2 visit all this hotspots.
did u all went 2 search for d proboscis monkey. the 1 everyone calls a drunk british
i went on d river cruise n was real lucky 2 c 4 groups of them. real ugly nose, trust me!
April 21st, 2006 at 8:21 pm
The fruit is most likely Pinang.. arh and the split thing.. :X
Actually it’s worth a visit but needs better planning.. say start the whole trip from Sandakan-Sepillok-Mt.K-KK or the opposite way.
We were travelling the same route twice by starting our Sabah journey from KK and ends at KK.. that’s tiresome.
Yes we did went for the proboscis monkey the last day of our trip.. saw a few but too dang far, even with the binocular it’s still rather blur.. but the big nose is rather obvious. Oh ya, it’s ugly.
April 22nd, 2006 at 12:54 am
;D i still got a poscard of it 2 sent it 2 my frens. wonder wat their reply would b ??
April 22nd, 2006 at 2:26 pm
ERww.. EEkkk.. Warhhh.. that should be their responses lol.
It’s ugly but definitely worth a look.. it’s nature treasures.
April 23rd, 2006 at 4:17 pm
that about covers it.
July 27th, 2006 at 8:04 pm
Heys, im 17 and going to borneo in 2 months cant wait looks so awsome and where going to see the orang utans and travel the island just me and my dad :P.
July 27th, 2006 at 10:59 pm
Hey that’s cool chrissy.. Sabah or Borneo is a great place to visit, and it must be wonderful to travel with your dad.
Where are you from chrissy?
July 28th, 2006 at 4:08 pm
Im from australia
umm we staying in kota kinabalu but going to brunei for 14 hours so should be fun!
July 28th, 2006 at 4:23 pm
Australia, that’s cooool. The trip should be fun, enjoy