Sabah : Sandakan

Tues - Bus to Sandakan I was very late arriving at 8pm, but HC member Rose Jalani was there to meet me.

indahjaya This is the new area out of town where Rose lives with her daughter. panaromic video Wed : Sandakan Tour I went to the Museum of a famous American writer who lived and wrote about Borneo- pretty good. Continued doing the historic walking tour. Quite a rundown town, but the waterfront is being improved dramatically

Downtown from the lookout

Downtown from the sea

It was war memorial day. So I went out to mile 8 to visit the site where the Australian prisoners were kept.

Thursday : Sepilok Forest I didn't want to go to the famous Sepilok Orang Utan sanctuary it seems that it's a tourist trap, which is not so good for the apes. Rather I decided to go out to the rainforest Discovery Centre in the same forest. It was pretty new and I only saw 2 other tourists in the same day. There are pretty good gardens explaining plants, a rehabilitated forest and they are building a new canopy walk. videos canopytower3.mp4 bridge.mp4 canopy canopy

canopy canopy I walked up the road to the sanctuary and sure enough their carpark was full of tourist buses etc. Roses nighttime tour. We drove to the Big Chinese Temple with a great view, then another viewpoint restaurant and then the old English Teashouse also a nice view. I felt I seen most of Sandakan so decided to move onto Sukrau a place between the palm plantations and Sabah's biggest river where wild animals can be seen

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