If you wish to take duty free drinks, check before you board your flight if you are going to have a flight change en route. With the new liquid restrictions some airlines and terminals will confiscate this when changing flights. Lynette
Sandakan
Sabah is filled with rare and exotic wildlife and Sandakan is the gateway to its fabulous experiences. Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre is where Orang Utans are reintroduced back into the wild. Turtle Islands are home to giant green turtles that come ashore each night to lay their eggs, leaving baby hatchlings to make their desperate bolt to the sea. This area has the largest concentration of wildlife in Malaysia - the rare proboscis monkey, orang-utans, macaques, hornbills, crocodile, civet cats, otters and countless birds.
When to go...
Sabah is a tropical country, it is either hot from March through to November or hot and humid late November through to early March, which is the wet season. Cities tend to have higher temperatures than the jungle and river communities as they tend to soak up the passive heat. Even if you are intending an adventure to up river communities it is recommended that you book a hotel with air conditioning in the cities. It is commonly believed that in the wet season it rains constantly, however this is not true. Instead the humidity tends to build up during the day and late afternoon early evening there is a cloud burst or a spectacular thunderstorm which cools everything down again. You have never seen rain until you see a Borneo rain.
