Sightseeing Tours & Trips in Borneo

Bako National Park's forest trails are where you'll look for rare proboscis monkeys—only 275 live here—and at Semenggoh Wildlife Centre you can watch rescued orangutans swing through the trees. Sunrise and sunset cruises on the Kinabatangan River let you spot pygmy elephants, the world's smallest, along with silvered langurs and hornbills.

You'll cruise Tanjung Puting National Park on a traditional Klotok boat, stopping at Tanjung Harapan Orangutan Rehabilitation Center and Camp Leakey Primate Center. There's time to walk through Tanjung Harapan Village to see local Bornean life, then guided jungle walks at Pondok Tanggui let you spot proboscis monkeys, hornbills, and monitor lizards.

Kinabalu National Park's trails are home to hundreds of plant species found nowhere else, and after hiking you can soak in Poring Hot Springs or walk the Menggaris canopy walkway 40 meters above the forest floor. Boat rides on the Lower Kinabatangan River around Sukau and Abai give you chances to see wild orangutans, pygmy elephants, proboscis monkeys, and silver leaf monkeys.

See wild orangutans at the Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre and watch rescued sun bears at the Sun Bear Conservation Centre in Sandakan. Take multiple boat trips along the Kinabatangan River to spot proboscis monkeys, pygmy elephants, hornbills, and long-tailed macaques along the riverbanks. Snorkel around the coral reefs at Dinawan Island, then walk through the rainforests of Kiulu Valley to Kampung Ratau village for an overnight stay in traditional bamboo huts with a cultural immersion experience.

The Kinabatangan River at dawn and dusk is where you'll spot proboscis monkeys, wild orangutans, and Bornean gibbons in their natural habitat, then at Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre you can watch baby orangutans learn to climb on jungle gyms. Later you'll snorkel with a marine biologist at Dinawan Island's house reef to study coral ecosystems.