Being remote from the human residence and verging from the outsider to present day progress makes the Danum Valley Conservation Area is a naturalists’ heaven. On the off chance that you are an untamed life and nature nerd, you will discover heaven in Danum Valley – a 472km sq protection range of flawless, generally essential, marsh dipterocarp backwoods that is home to 300 types of feathered creatures, well-evolved creatures, bugs and so on. The region brags a stunning differing qualities of creature life including the Borneo dwarf elephant, sun bear, orang-utan and clouded panther.
Location
The Danum Valley Conservation Area is located in South-eastern Sabah, Malaysian Borneo (4˚50’N-5˚00N and 117˚35’E – 117K45’E). The Danum Valley Field Center is around 70 km inland from the town of Lahad Datu on Sabah
You need to go to Lahad Datu to go to Danum Valley Conservation Area. Most of the airline agent in Kota Kinabalu has direct daily flights to Lahad Datu. Another way of transportation would be air-conditioned coaches from Kota Kinabalu which will take about 7 hours drive to reach Lahad Datu. You have to go to the bus terminal which is situated in Inanam.
The Field Centre is easily accessed by road and the journey takes less than 2 hours from the nearest town.
Accommodation
A few sorts of accommodation are accessible at Danum Valley:
VIP chalets: Two rooms accessible – each of which can place 2 – 3 individuals. These are aerated and cooled, completely adjusted and have an en-suite restroom, a fridge, and private overhang. Principally proposed for short visits.
Resthouse: Seven rooms accessible, each of which can place 2 – 3 individuals. These are completely overhauled, have en-suite bathrooms and overhead fans. Fundamentally expected for short visits.
Annex: Four rooms accessible, each of which can place 2 – 3 individuals. These are completely overhauled, have en-suite bathrooms, overhead fans and overhangs.
Researchers’ chalets: Three independent duplex chalets and 1 single room chalet are accessible. The duplexes can place up to 4 individuals. They incorporate a kitchen, lounge, separate rooms, a washroom and a veranda. Essential cooking hardware and utensils are given. The majority of the chalets have their own particular icebox and clothes washer. Planned basically for long haul researchers – particularly the individuals who wish to self-provide food.
Hostel: There are two contiguous inns at Danum Valley, each of which can rest 48 individuals at one time (96 altogether). The inns are sub-isolated into partitioned ‘rooms’, with 2 lofts in each. Lavatory and latrine offices are shared. Every hostel prayer room for Muslim residents. The inns share a vast kitchen and feasting region with incredible perspectives over the woodland. Planned principally for understudies on field courses and for researchers and different guests who might be on a tight spending plan.
Campsite: Rests up to 20 individuals (in loft style beds). This is a constructed campground with open-sided, zinc-roofed structures and incorporates fundamental on location toilets, showers, cooking offices and an eating zone. Proposed primarily for understudies and different guests who might be on a restricted spending plan – or for the individuals who lean toward a more “normal” living environment.
Breakfast, lunch, and supper can all be taken at Danum and is served in a lounge area and on a veranda nearby the resthouse – which has magnificent perspectives over the backwoods. Sustenance is basic, Malaysian home-style cooking utilizing new fixings (all Halal) bought locally in Lahad Datu. All suppers are served as self-administration buffets. Breakfast is regularly Western-style with grain, toast, browned or fried eggs and wieners – however, an Asian breakfast of fried noodles is prepared sometimes. Lunch usually consist of either fried rice or sandwiches. Supper incorporates a few vegetable, chicken, hamburger and/or fish dishes joined by steamed rice.
The staff that are providing food in Danum Valley are very much used to planning veggie lover dinners, and pleasing other dietary necessities, however guests with genuine nourishment intolerances or sensitivities might wish to view self as cooking; given the moderately restricted offices accessible for sustenance readiness at Danum, the complete rejection of particular nutrition types (e.g. nuts, fish products) can’t be ensured.