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Day 1: Transfer (D)
Meet your guide at airport in Kota Kinabalu and transfer to your hotel. At the evening meet your guide at the hotel lobby and depart for your dinner in a local seafood restaurant with a cultural show. After dinner you will be transferred back to the hotel for overnight.
Day 2: KK – Rungus Longhouse Tour – KK (B/L)
Breakfast at the hotel. After breakfast, you will be picked up by our guide and proceed for a visit to the Rungus Longhouse.The Rungus, a tribe of the Kadazandusun group, are found mainly on the Kudat and Bengkoka Peninsulas in the northern part of Sabah. Experience the past through the communal longhouse lifestyle that is fast giving way to modernity. Excellent phot-opportunities as many of the ladies still wear the traditional chest-to-calf black sarongs and other native ornaments. Cultural performance can be arranged on request. Lunch will be served in the longhouse. Visit will also be made to Kota Belud Tamu if it is Sunday. After your longhouse experience proceed back to the hotel for overnight.
Day 3: KK – 1 D Kinabalu Park & Poring – KK (B/L)
Breakfast in hotel. After breakfast meet your guide and proceed for a 2 hours overland Drive(88 km) through padi-fields and Dusun villages over the ridges of the Crocker Range to the foothills of Mt. Kinabalu at 5,000ft, to arrive at the park headquarters at Kundasang. Visit the Visitor Centre and Mountain Garden; home to some of the 24 species of flowering rhododendrons, 10 species of carnivorous pitcher plants, estimated 1,400 species of orchids, over 600 species of ferns, more than 40 species of oak trees and over 300 species of birds. Lunch will be served in the Park. Continue 40 km journey to Poring stopping briefly at fruitstalls & a pottery. Explore tropical rainforest among the jungle trail leading to the treetop canopy walkways suspended 41 meters above the forest floor before returning to Kota Kinabalu.
Overnight in hotel
Day 4: KK – Sandakan/ Gomantong/ Sukau(B/L/D)
Breakfast in the hotel After breakfast you will be picked up and transferred to airport BKI for your connecting flight to Sandakan. Meet on Arrival at Sandakan airport and depart overland to Gomantong. Spend the morning exploring the caves. After a picnic lunch, proceed to Sukau (1 hour) and join a river cruise in search of the proboscis monkeys. Dinner and overnight at a riverside Jungle Lodge.
Day 5: Sukau - Selingan (B/L/D)

Breakfast at the Lodge in Sukau. Return to Sandakan. Transfer to the jetty & a 40km (1.5hr) boatride to Selingan Island in Turtle Islands Marine Park (1,700ha). Check in to be free at leisure. Swim or sun bath on white sandy beaches. Just ten minutes boatride away are beautiful coral formations not to be missed by enthusiastic, snorkeller. After dinner, wait for Green and/or Hawksbill Turtle coming ashore to lay eggs, and witness the release of young turtles to the sea. Overnight at Selingan Chalets with attached bathrooms. Lunch and Dinner will be served in the restaurant in Selingan.
Day 6: Selingan/ Sepilok/ Sandakan (B/L)

Breakfast in Selingan After breakfast, return to Sandakan to visit Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary rewarding experience at the 43 sq.km Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary and Virgin Jungle Reserve. Here, 24 km from Sandakan, young orphaned or captive apes are rehabilitated for life in the wild. Tour covers a local fish/vegetable market water. and a fishing village buildt on stilts over largest Visit Buddhist temple top Puu Jih Shih Temple, the Sabah, town Chinese dramatically sited on a steep hile in overlooking Sandakan Bay and the centre. Lunch will be served in a local restaurant.
Transfer to Sandakan airport for departure flight to Kota Kinabalu. You will be picked up from Kota Kinabalu airport and transferred to your hotel.
Overnight in hotel

Day 7: Transfer out (B)
Breakfast in hotel
Transfer from hotel to airport Kota Kinabalu for flight home or Extension
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