Or watching little, black-tipped sharks swim in the shallows of a genuinely azure sea and snorkelling over reefs ablaze with multi-coloured fish chased by barracudas. Waking at night to creep towards a huge marine turtle laying eggs.
Or cruising along the Kinabatangan River, watching the strangely beautiful proboscis monkeys and huge saltwater crocodiles and suddenly finding a hundred elephants crossing the silt-heavy waters, accompanied by much roaring and trumpeting.
A luxury holiday to Borneo truly is set within a natural paradise. No matter what your interests in the natural world might be, our luxury holidays to Borneo have many delightful surprises in store for you!
Borneo – the very name evokes images of great primeval rain forests and giant trees emerging above mist-laden canopies full of hornbills and singing gibbons. This is the home of one of man’s closest cousins, the orangutan, and is the best place to see them in the wild.
It is the Mecca of bio-diversity, where one hundred hectares of primary rainforest can contain a greater wealth of plant life than all of North America and incredible treasures, like the mysterious giant rafflesia flowers and enormous pitcher plants that can drown even small rodents.
Here there are still primordial wildernesses like the Maliau Basin, unknown to humans until only recently and still only peripherally explored. Surrounded by Borneo’s incredible natural wealth, Alfred Russell Wallace honed his own ideas on evolution and natural selection. A holiday in Borneo also offers an incredible marine experience. The bright turquoise waters that ring the island teem with life, with a huge swathe of the Sulu Sea protected from fishing and safe for turtles and sharks.
And it isn’t just all about nature, for there is a surprising amount of history and intriguing tales of trade and piracy – and one of the most interesting and colourful food markets anywhere.
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