Sabah compresses Borneo's greatest hits into one loop: rehabilitated orangutans swinging into Sepilok's feeding platforms, the sun-bear sanctuary next door and river cruises on the Kinabatangan, where proboscis monkeys honk from the trees and pygmy elephants sometimes wade the shallows. Stay two nights at a river lodge rather than day-tripping — dawn and dusk cruises are when the riverbank comes alive. June to September is driest.
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