PLACES OF INTEREST IN SABAH

Mount Kinabalu.

A 83 km from Kota Kinabalu is the Kinabalu National Park, surrounding the huge granite mass of the mountain of the same name, with its 4,101 meters is the highest mountain in all of Southeast Asia. There are organized excursions to climb on foot to the top leaving from Kota Kinabalu by bus and duly accompanied by guides in the entire climb pedestrian.

Sandakan.

City of millionaires in its heyday as a center of tin, was built in its current location in 1881 after a fire the previous settlement. The surrounding region was known by her neighbors and residents as far away as China, for its production of pearls, camphor, beeswax, cucumbers and edible birds' nests.

Sandakan is the starting point of two interesting visits: a) of the Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary, 25 km from the city, where they can come into contact with the interesting "men of the jungle" or orangutans, while respecting important measures prophylaxis to avoid infection of animals (it is forbidden to touch the orangutans in the wild, although there are dedicated individuals to be petted by visitors and take pictures with them), b) the beaches of the Islands Sulu, 40 km from Sandakan, an ideal place to observe the egg laying of large sea turtles and incubating them on farms and later taken to the sea of hatchlings by specialists.

Sepilok orang-utan Sanctuary

A short journey by road takes visitors from Sandakan to Sepilok Orangutan Sanctuary, a large rain forest area of 35 square kilometers set in 1964 to care for injured orangutans and raising orphaned. They have their protected habitat, with freedom to roam loose in the territory and training the young animals to live again loose in the jungle. Orangutans are the largest planet apes living in the trees. They are shy, gentle and subtle and surprisingly lonely. Only living in the jungles of Borneo and in small numbers, in Sumatra. The word orangutan in the Malay language means "man of the jungle" and there is the sad possibility that, if not remedied, is a species extinct in the next 15 years due to the destruction of their forest habitat to make plantations oil palm of which is obtained from palm oil used in the manufacture of margarine, ice cream, pastries, chocolates and many cosmetics and body care.

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