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Sepilok Orang Utan Adventure: Full Day Exploring Bornean Sun Bear and Rainforest Discovery Center
4.2
52 Ratings
Sepilok
Join this full day tour to explore Sepilok Orang Utan, Bornean Sun Bear, and Rainforest Discovery Center. Get up close with orang utans, learn about sun bear rescue, and immerse in the beauty of the rainforest.
Join this full day tour to explore Sepilok Orang Utan, Bornean Sun Bear, and Rainforest Discovery Center. Get up close with orang utans, learn about sun bear rescue, and immerse in the beauty of the rainforest.
Duration:
8 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre - Our tour guide will pick up you around 8am from your hotel or Airport. Head to first stop at Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre. It was established in 1964 to return orphaned “apes back to the wild”. The centre was being administered by the wildlife section of the Forestry Department which in 1988…
- Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre - Our tour guide will pick up you around 8am from your hotel or Airport. Head to first stop at Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre. It was established in 1964 to return orphaned “apes back to the wild”. The centre was being administered by the wildlife section of the Forestry Department which in 1988 was upgraded as a department under the Ministry of Tourism and Environmental Development. All administration and management was given to the new Wildlife Department of Sabah. At 10:00 am Proceed to Platform B, observe man’s closest relative a ‘the Orang Utans being rehabilitated to become wild in their natural habitat and experience a walk in the Tropical Lowland Dipterous Forest of Borneo and later watch a 25 minutes scheduled video documentary show.
What's Included
- English-speaking licensed tour guide
- Traditional local lunch included
- All taxes (Goods and Services Tax) covered
- Round-trip transportation by car/minivan provided
- English-speaking licensed tour guide
- Traditional local lunch included
- All taxes (Goods and Services Tax) covered
- Round-trip transportation by car/minivan provided
What's Not Included
- Other Food and Drinks
- Any other things not mentioned in the itinerary
- Other Food and Drinks
- Any other things not mentioned in the itinerary
Additional Information
Embark on a comprehensive full-day adventure with your companions to delve into numerous sites in the vicinity of Sandakan. You’ll have the opportunity to encounter the Sepilok Orang Utan, providing a rare chance to observe these creatures in their natural environment. The Bornean Sun Bear is a development for rescuing and rehabilitating sun bears…
Embark on a comprehensive full-day adventure with your companions to delve into numerous sites in the vicinity of Sandakan. You’ll have the opportunity to encounter the Sepilok Orang Utan, providing a rare chance to observe these creatures in their natural environment. The Bornean Sun Bear is a development for rescuing and rehabilitating sun bears located in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Evolving from a modest environmental education (EE) centre established in 1996, the Rainforest Discovery Centre is now one of Sabah’s leading EE centres.
Location
Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.2
(52 Ratings)
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Marta
Sep 28, 2025
A wonderful day - 3 visits one more beautiful than the other: seeing the orangutans and honey bears up close is a unique thing.
Our guide was very kind and nice; convenient transport both outward and back!
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Dylan
Aug 29, 2025
Beautiful experience - Magnificent experience, we were lucky enough to see the alpha male of the orangutans, more beautiful walk in the rain forest and to see the Sun bears.
The guide Sity was very good giving us many useful explanations.
Recommendedasimo
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F7765aojohannam
Jul 26, 2025
Warmly recommend - The Best guide ever! She took good care of us and was very professional and polite. She also had interesting facts to tell about orang utans, sunbears and the wildlife in Malaysia and Southeast Asia in general. So much we saw and experienced!
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Camper783203
Jul 19, 2025
- I enjoyed my day enormously. Saher, my driver, made me feel comfortable at all times, was as interested in the birds, animals and plants as me, and was full of information. The Rainforest walk was amazing, as were the Orangutans and Sun Bears.
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Journey50007991428
Jun 9, 2025
Sebah. Sandakan. This trip is worth everything, it’s a must to see proboscis , macaques, orangutans and honey bears - Amazing days experience with Siti and her driver. Went to all the different areas to see all the different monkeys , apes with her
Truly a great experience. Certainly got up close at times
Might be hot very hot here in temperature but well worth all the driving around
What a day. I will never forget this trip
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Elias
Oct 18, 2025
Visit to the Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre - Interesting visit with a very educated and pleasant private driver. However we expected a lunch in local restaurant , this was not the case big disappointment as we had lunch at the cafeteria in the center of Sepilok orang outan 😔
This dear to us for this service.
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Jom2345
May 10, 2025
Great opportunity to see the Orangutan - Busy place but great to see orangutan free to roam. Was lucky to see them above the path as well as at the feeding locations.
Watching them interact, play and their agility was a fabulous experience.
Such gorgeous animals being cared for and protected.
Only caveat was hearing the elephants and not being able to see them.
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Yolanda_p
Aug 14, 2025
Expensive - We had our tour cancelled four hours earlier. In the end we did it the next day. The driver who took us very nice but there is no guide to explain anything about the animals. It is very expensive, it can be done on your own for less than half. You feel ripped off.
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Ram_m
Aug 6, 2025
Glorified taxi service - Got to visit the Orangutan sanctuary, sun bear Sanctuary (next door) and the rainforest discovery centre with entrance fees paid. Not really a tour but a taxi service as did not provide any Information or act as a guide. English was very basic and hence limited conversation. Lunch was at the on site cafe and given RM 100 (approx £20 ) for 5 of us to buy lunch ourselves.
Not good value and poor quality compared to other tours on Viator . We could have done ourselves using airport taxi
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Culture28106830244
Sep 16, 2025
NO TOUR AS CANCELLED - AS you cancelled the tour why are you asking me to write a review
The tour was booked to commence at 0800hrs on Monday 15th Sept. Received a message on Sunday night that our guide was unavailable so the tour was cancelled and did I want to rebook for Tuesday. No effort was made to suggest an alternative tour just if not convenient to swap to tuesday they will refund(had to fly to NZ on Tuesday).SOLUTION barman at the hotel organised a driver and we went to all the tour highlights and two extra ones for less than the tour company was charging. He spoke good english and had excellent local knowledge. I think I got a better outcome
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