Kinabatangan River Cruise from Sandakan | La Vacanza Travel

Kinabatangan River Cruise from Sandakan

Duration: 8 hours
Destination: Malaysia, Sabah, Sandakan
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  • 8 hours
  • Sandakan
  • E-Voucher
  • Lowest Price
  • Not-Cancellable

Overview

Experience the enchanting Kinabatangan River with an unforgettable river cruise. Don't miss this chance to create cherished memories amidst the natural wonders of the Kinabatangan River.

What Can You Expect?

Itinerary
This is a typical itinerary for this product

Stop At: Kinabatangan River, 90000 Malaysia

Our driver will pick you up at 12:00 pm from Sandakan airport or your Sandakan hotel lobby (town area). Proceed to Kinabatangan River. Cruise along Kinabatangan River. In search for some of the primate's species including the endemic Proboscis Monkey, birds and others wildlife. Transfer back to Sandakan airport or your respective hotel in Sandakan

Duration: 3 hours

Inclusions & Exclusions

Inclusions
  • Tour and Transfers Seat In Coach Basis
  • Local Dinner
  • 1 Afternoon Cruise at Kinabatangan River
  • In House Guide
  • Entry/Admission - Kinabatangan River

Exclusions
  • Any other things not mentioned in the itinerary.

Additional Info

  • Not wheelchair accessible
  • Travelers should have a moderate physical fitness level
  • This tour/activity will have a maximum of 15 travelers
  • Confirmation will be received at time of booking

Departure Point

Departure Point

Traveler pickup is offered


Departure Time

11:00 AM

Duration & Voucher Info

Voucher info

You can present either a paper or an electronic voucher for this activity.

Duration

8 hours

Cancellation Policy

User's Reviews

Ronan_B

28 Mar, 2024

Amazing river tour got to see all of the Borneo big 5 ,had a great guide for the expedition and I would highly recommend to anyone who’s a fan of nature tours. 🇮🇪

Fiona C

10 Mar, 2020

Mixed review on this one as we were highly anticipating the day and had booked it as my birthday treat. Single mum 3 teens. The caves were worth the visit - smelly but great to see - disappointed nobody advised us the collecting nests would start the next day as we would have changed the date to see this. Arrived for lunch in loads of time and hung around for 3 hours for Boat trip. Didnt realise people were heading to the jetty to queue for the boat so we were last on and could not sit together. All the tourists who had been on the boat already knew the best seats were on the outside so everyone took these first leaving single seats left spread out. The boat was crammed with 20 guests whilst on the water we saw other companies with smaller boats and less people and this would have been our preference. The trip was great the wildlife was fab and we enjoyed it just disappointed not to be sitting together with my kids on my birthday when we were first to arrive at the venue. If you go queue up at the jetty ready to jump on the boat or book with another company with smaller numbers.

Townsville

14 Nov, 2019

Our hotel concierge and I tried for several days to confirm the trip and pick up time, but received no response. On the day a local taxi turned up, complete with taxi sign on top and with non English speaking driver. We had no idea of how long it would take to get to the caves or when we would eat and received no information on route as the driver could not speak English. At the caves, we walked around with no information given at all and then set off for the river cruise. The river cruise part however, was enjoyable with a good boat driver/guide. We certainly did not get an English speaking guide and would have been better off just hiring a local taxi, then we could at least have got aircon, an English speaking driver and saved quite a bit of money to boot! Quite disappointing really and a tour I would recommend you avoid.

Twoiscompany

29 Sep, 2019

Fantastic experience but sadly our tour guide Argus was really just a taxi driver. He had no knowledge of the caves or river... In fact I knew more about it all than he did but that didn't stop us having an amazing day. He didn't take us to the Kinabatangan river camp for our 2hr explore of the area so felt a bit cheated there but he did arrange a nice lunch in a family home right on the jetty which was a lovely experience. He was also a friend of the boat driver so sat at the back chatting to him the whole time. It didn't stop us enjoying the cruise though. We got to see loads of Probuscus monkeys, a crocodile and a pigmy elephant not to mention the many birds. I think the tour needs to be 2hrs longer to fit it all in and we noticed the other tours offer this. All in all it was a great experience but would use another private tour guide if we did it again.

yourfoodiatet

29 Aug, 2019

It was a trip to 3 places: Lunch, Guamantong Cave, and Kinabatangan River The driver basically doubled as our tour guide. He was very friendly and tried to make us as comfortable as he possibly can. He was also very laid back. However, he doesn't really explain anything and only had basic knowledge of the animals/places. He drove us around in an old taxi, which would have been fine except that the journey to the cave and river was long and the roads were developing/under construction. The long drive back to our accommodation was particularly uncomfortable. We had lunch in a local halal Chinese shop. It was noted that our tour guide wanted us to feel comfortable and there weren't a lot of restaurants along the way. For context, we are local Chinese from KL. The food tasted good but I didn't like that he didn't really bother ordering for us. The food is quite different from the food in KL. The waitress who took our order just told us what people normally ordered and we just ordered that. The food was individual (rice or noodle) dishes. They were also cheap. Guamantong Cave was pretty much just a bat cave with birds and cockroaches. Be ready for a lot of guano (bat excrement) and cockroaches. Our tour guide gave us face masks to help with the smell - but it really isn't that bad once you get used to it. Standing in front of a full dumpster is worse. Bring your best torchlight, the ones where the light can hit far away. Your phone lights won't do much except shine at guanos and cockroaches around you. Also, the walkway and railings were covered with guanos and cockroaces. If you are the type that feels icky cause of roaches, I suggest covering up a bit just to feel pseudo-"safe". Water drops down from the cave sometimes but because of the environment, you tend to question it. When we went, there were workers picking out birds' nests. It was quite something, watching them just chatting away and climbing up the cave in wooden ladders and ropes nonchalantly. Overall, while it was interesting, the visit was quite short (the cave wasn't very big). I felt like we could have just went there ourselves with a good car/four wheeler (cause of the roads). Because of the timing of the tour, we visited the cave early in the afternoon - in which, nothing was really happening. Apparently, if you visit the cave as the sun sets, you can see the bats leave the cave. Kinabatangan River is just a massive river surrounded by jungle. The jungles look like they're mangrove swamps but I can't tell for sure. The boat ride was nice and scenic. The boat wasn't small and we weren't splashed by water the entire way. It also wasn't raining when we went but we were prepared with raincoats. If you have binoculars, bring them. We saw lots of monkeys (including the proboscis monkey) and birds (including the horn bill). Monkeys were easy to spot and seem fairly common. Orang utans, however, prefer to be deep in the jungle. Spotting the birds are harder seem to depend on luck. Apparently, you can also sometimes spot crocodiles but we were not lucky enough to have that happen in our trip. Our tour guide and the skipper/"boat driver" were very nice people and took their time to try showing us as many wildlife as they could. In the end, we were back at our accommodation at about 9-10pm. Overall, I personally felt like the tour was alright but not worth the money.

User's Picture Gallery

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Taxi Ride

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More a taxi ride than tour

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Good tour but use another tour company.

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Visiting Guamantong Cave

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One day tour from Sandakan was worth it..

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