Four days after we climbed Mount Kinabalu our legs had just about fully recovered. We'd made the long 6 hour bus journey from Kinabalu National Park over to Sandaken the day after the climb and conveniently booked ourselves into a hostel with a tv and dvd player in each room so we were laughing! It's a bit of a cop out really, going all this way around the world only to sit in watching dvd's and sports channels all day, but we felt like we deserved it! Sepilok was the main attraction for us in Sabah, in the northeastern part of Borneo, and is where the Orang Utan Rehabilitation centre is based so we travelled there from Sandaken for the day. It was set up in 1964 with the purpose of rehabilitating young orphaned Orang Utans.
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