婆羅洲自然小屋旅館

Un’esperienza favolosa. Il lodge è sulle rive del Kinabatangan, immerso nella jungla dove giornalmente si avvistano animali. Noi abbiamo avuto la fortuna di vedere l’Orango e gli elefanti a pochi metri dalla nostra stanza. Le camere, senza pretese, sono pulite e dotate del necessario… bisogna sempre ricordarsi di essere nella foresta! I pasti sono ottimi, noi siamo stati 4 giorni e hanno sempre cambiato i menù: poche pietanze ma ben cucinate e davvero gustose. L’atmosfera è magica, tutto lo staff è disponibile e sempre sorridente. Una menzione speciale (ringraziandolo di nuovo) a Jal, la nostra guida: è stato sicuramente un valore aggiunto, di una simpatia unica e professionalmente ineccepibile… in ogni crociera sul fiume ha sempre cercato, con passione, di farci vedere quanti più animali possibili (riuscendoci appieno tanto da permetterci di tornare a casa con tantissime foto di tutti e 5 i big five del Borneo). CONSIGLIATISSIMO

I do want to share my dissatisfaction with the Borneo Nature Lodge service and miscommunication I experienced. My understanding was it seemed every other group staying there had a boatman and a guide. I was only provided a boatman. When I checked in, no one explained to me that a button needed to be pressed outside of the bathroom for hot water in the shower, which caused me to take an extremely cold shower. I was told the last evening, 30 min before the tour that I had an evening cruise and was told that my transportation would be picking me up the following day at 10am and to be ready by 9:50am. I had gotten up early to attempt to pay extra to search for the elephants, but at that time there was no available boats. I had decided to go ahead and have breakfast and make my way back to my room. At 7:40am, I got a knock on my room door that the transport has arrived. I had to take a few more minutes to get everything together. I was unaware that I needed to pay a tourism tax. So I paid and was rushed to the jetty. The transportation got me to the orangutan sanctuary at 10:30am, passed the feeding time, so I missed the orangutan sanctuary, which was really disappointing.

Great place to stay with chalet type accommodation we had a herd of 30 odd pigmy elephants come though our lodge so lovely to see them so close up. Meals where very good even made us a birthday cake staff friendly and boat tours amazing looking for the wildlife on the river.