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Borneo

Extraordinary culture and wildlife encounters

Visit Borneo

Introduction

Few places in the world are as wild, remote and resource-rich as its third largest island, Borneo. Surrounded by the Java, Celebes, Sulu and South China seas, this eden-like environment combines some of the world's oldest rainforests and cloud-shrouded granite peaks with a biodiversity matched by very few places on earth.

Orangutans, proboscis monkeys and Sumatran rhinos are just some of the hundreds of different animal species that live on an island that also teems with countless birds, bats and insects.

Borneo is also a botanist's dream, with an incredible 15,000 species of flowering plants and 3,000 types of tree - so it's little wonder that it was here that the celebrated British naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace undertook much of his research into evolutionary theory in the 19th century.

Logging and palm oil plantations have threatened large areas of the forest since then, but much remains untouched and other parts are now being given over to re-growth projects.

Borneo is divided between three countries, with two-thirds lying within the Indonesian state of Kalimantan and the tiny sultanate of Brunei nestling between the two Malaysian provinces of Sabah and Sarawak. The latter are easily reached on a two- to three-hour flight from the Malaysian Peninsula and, as such, are the most visited parts of Borneo.

Sarawak has associations with head hunters and tribal longhouses, and was ruled over for 100 years by a dynasty known as the White Rajahs. Sabah, meanwhile, is known for its world-class dive sites and the imposing Mount Kinabalu. Fabulous wildlife encounters can be enjoyed in both and these remain the focal point of a trip to Malaysian Borneo.

 

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Top itineraries in Borneo

Orangutan, Borneo

Borneo Adventure

16-day tailor-made holiday from £3,360 pp

Spot wild orangutans and proboscis monkeys on rainforest treks and cruise past pygmy elephants on a longboat, all on this comprehensive tour of Malaysian Borneo.

Orangutans in Borneo, Malaysia

Wildlife of Borneo

17-day tailor-made holiday from £4,530 pp incl. flights

Explore the best of Malaysian Borneo, from an orangutan sanctuary to the wildlife-rich regions of Kinabatangan and the remote Danum Valley.

Top places to stay in Borneo

Beach at Gaya Island Resort

Gaya Island Resort, Malaysian Borneo

Contemporary resort

Gaya Island Resort is located off the coast of Borneo on Pulau Gaya, near Kota Kinabalu. It's a stunning setting of coral reefs and fringing golden-sand beaches, protected mangroves, dense rainforest and rocky outcrops.

Shangri la Rasa Ria - Main Pool

Shangri la Rasa Ria Resort, Borneo

Accommodation

Perfectly arranged within 400 acres of tropical gardens on the shores of Pantai Dalit beach, the Shangri la Rasa Ria Resort is far more than your everyday beach resort and is one of Borneo’s premier resort destinations.

Where to go in Borneo

Sabah

Viewing wildlife - both on land and in the clear seas along its coast - is the major attraction of Sabah, a state of a similar size to Ireland.

Sarawak

A land of adventures, where jungle-dwelling tribes live in riverside longhouses and head hunters used to roam, the state of Sarawak is everything one imagines Borneo to be.

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