Adventure Magazine

A KIWI HOLIDAY IN BORNEO

Borneo, known for its Orangutans and Pygmy Elephants, was the destination for our family holiday. We have taken our daughters, (12 and 16) on a variety of adventure holidays but this was going to be our first major wildlife adventure. I was hoping that this would be something that they would enjoy, but it turned out to be so much more.

We landed in Kota Kinabalu, which is in the Sabah region on the north west coast of Borneo, after flying from New Zealand to Singapore. A few days later we headed over to the east coast to Sandakan port where we travelled to Lankayan Island in the Sulu Sea. It is one of the last islands in Malaysia before you reach Philippine waters. The

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