We spent 10 days in Borneo.
We flew to Kota Kinabalu. We stayed with an Airbnb for about £20. It was the home of a very little Chinese woman. She was very friendly and helpful. Winston sat in the car next to her and asked me loudly .. Why is she so small... She gave us a lift to the local eating market, and we had some rough noodles , nice dumplings and rough tea, the we went to a cheap clothes shop and bought a bag and a tshirt for Henry and a shirt for Winston.
The next morning we went to the city centre. We only had hand luggage so we took it with us. We looked around some shops and went to the airport to fly to Sandakan.
From Sandakan we took a prepay taxi to Sepilok Nature Resort. The driver took us to Sepilok Jungle Resort. We didn't realise till it was too late, but one of their staff gave us a lift to the right place for 15rm.
The hotel cost about £45 per night. We had a chalet and it was walking distance to the Sepilok Urangutan Sanctuary, the Sun Bear Sanctuary and the Rainforest Discovery Centre.
At the Orangutan centre we paid about £20 for all of us, then after a 5 minute walk on a board walk we came to a viewing area. About 10 minutes later a man appeared from the jungle with a big basket of food and went and sat on a high up platform. About 10 minutes later the Orangutans came swinging out of the jungle. There were also some other monkeys that the Orangutans would batto the side from time to time. Then we went to where the baby Orangutans were looked after. They also have free access to the surrounding jungle. We sat in an air conditioned room and watched about 8 of them play and get fed for about an hour.
We went to the Rainforest Discovery Centre and found out that a species of Borneo Fungi was named after Spongebob Squarepants. We walked on a large metal canopy walk, but only saw trees and a big bees nest. From the Orangutan place it was £3 by taxi, and entrance came to about £15.
We took a taxi to a supermarket because the hotel breakfast was so expensive. The taxi was the expensive, but we had waffles. Henry was getting a bit grumpy because he was hungry. The waffles solved that.
While Caroline worked, I took Winston and Henry to the Sun Bear Sanctuary. We watched half a video about bears, then went to have a look at the ones there. Winston and Henry weren't really interested. They were more interested in slopes and stairs.
The next part of the trip was a prearranged package. It cost £280 for 2 nights and all the meals and tours in Greenview Lodge in Sukau. We met some people there who had arranged it all separately, and I think they saved about 30%. The tours included 3 boat tours, a jingle walk and a bat cave tour. We saw wild hornbills, proboscis monkeys, Orangutans, crocodile, pygmy elephant. It was all very easy and suitable for Winston and Henry. Winston got bored first on the longest boat tour.
The bat cave tour involved a 20 minute drive, then a 20 minute walk on a boardwalk through some jungle.
