Shopping

Try the Kota Kinabalu Handicraft Market (aka Filipino market) where you can bargain over unique souvenirs like pearl jewellery, traditional musical instruments or colourful sarongs. Kota Kinabalu also has a number of shopping centres including the enormous 1Borneo Hypermall, packed with chain stores, restaurants and whatever else you could possibly need. Finish your retail jaunt with a culinary trip to the Night Market.

Sepilok & Orang Utans

Sandakan is a captivating town with its very own charm, friendly people and fabulous places to devour seafood. Places of interest that can be visited are the world famous Sepilok Orang Utan Rehabilitation Centre - The world's largest and an area of 11,000 acres of virgin equatorial rainforest that has been set aside as forest reserve and orang utan rehabilitation centre. Here, you can experience a close encounter with the "Wild Man of Borneo." There is also the Sandakan Crocodile Farm located on the Labuk Road near Sepilok and Labuk Bay Proboscis Monkey Sanctuary. Take a day trip to Sandakan and Sepilok with multiple cheap quick flights from Kota Kinabalu

Danum Valley

Danum Valley Conservation Area comprises 43,800 ha (108,186 acres) of virgin forest. It is a vast reserve of lush tropical lowland forest rich in Sabah's unique flora and fauna. The area has been recognised as one of the world's most complex ecosystems. Serving as a natural habitat for a number of endangered wildlife species suhc as the pygmy elephants, orang utans and proboscis monkeys.​​​