Borneo Bird Festival

A bird festival will be held in RDC Sepilok starting from 10th to 15th October 2009, make sure you visit The Rainforest Discovery Center if you are happen to be in Sandakan between that date. We will be one of the bird guide during the event.

Safari 1

6 days 5 nights Photo Safari Borneo Package

Danum Valley (BRL) /Sukau Kinabatangan/Gomantong Cave/ Sepilok

Day 1 Lahad Datu / Danum Valley

Meet at Lahad Datu airport or hotel lobby and proceed for 2.5 hours drive to Danum Valley. Check-in at Borneo Rainforest Lodge. Afternoon Nature orientation walk and night walks. Dinner and Overnight lodge (L, D)

Day 2 Danum Valley / Borneo Rainforest Lodge

Spend this day in pursuit of the endemic and endangered wild Orang utans, Bornean Gibbons, Maroon langurs around BRL, we venture out morning and afternoon to photograph some of the oldest rainforest and wildlife in the area. After dinner, get prepared with headlamps, we trek or drive to the darkness of the forests search of nocturnal mammals and frogs Overnight lodge.( B.L.D )

Day 3 Danum Valley / Sukau

After lunch, proceed for 5 hours drive to Sukau. Check-in at River Lodge, after dinner, night river safari on boat in search of estuarine crocodile, owls, civets, leopard cats etc. Overnight River lodge (B.L.D)

Day 4 & 5 Sukau

Two full days are spent with river cruises in the morning and afternoon in the vast wetlands of Kinabatangan. Proboscis monkeys, hornbills, kingfishers, egrets, pig tailed or long tailed macaque and Borneo’s snakes can be photographed from the boat. Good chance of seeing Borneo’s elephant and wild Orang utan. After dinner, night river safari in search of crocodile, owl, leopard cat etc. Overnight River lodge. (B, L, D)

Day 6 Sukau / Gomantong Cave / Sepilok

After breakfast, explore one of the biggest limestone cave in Sabah, the Gomantong Cave, which is home to millions of bats and edible nest swiflets.

Proceed to Sepilok Orangutan Rehabilitation Centre and stop for lunch along the way. Close range with the Orang utans gives good close-up shots.

Later transfer to your onward flight or check-in at hotel. (B, L)

Welcome

Hi all reader, welcome to the new blog of North Borneo Photo Safari Trip. This is the site where we will let everyone know about our photography trip around North Borneo. We are a team consist of three members of tour guide.... Jollence, Jason and John. All of us are into photography and we organize photography and birdwatching trip around North Borneo. We will soon come out with few packages of photography and birdwatching trip mainly around Sabah. So visit here soon for more updates!

About Us

Jollence Lee @ Lence

An experienced Nature Tour guide and an excellent landscape /nature Photographer also the person who manage the Borneo Geographic Blog.Had handled many professional and popular International wildlife Photographers. Very high demand for his nature and landscape photos and a growing demand for his wedding photo services. An expert in Photoshop CS4 and does tutorial in his blog www.jollencelee.com in the Internet.

Jason Bugay Reyes

He is a nature and birdwatching tour guide. Expert in Borneo birds. Has an experience working with several tour company in Sabah. His birds expertise are Borneo's wetland bird, mountain and lowland rainforest birds. Jason blog http://horukuru.blogspot.com

John A Prudente
Had been in Tourism Industry for more than 17 years. Had been awarded as Sabah Best General Tour guide 2005/06. Had so far handled very important Guest such as Ministers / Celebrities/ High profile guests / Popular film crew / Naturalist / Botanist / high profile incentive groups and Leads many popular International Documentary Filming works. Still active in Tour guiding and Nature photography work. Based in Kota Kinabalu and are very high demand in his services till to date. Also the founder of the Borneo Geographic Adventure Specialist Team in early 2008. Many adventure trips are planned ahead. So keep in touch for more reports. John blog http://johnprudente.blogspot.com