Private Tour: Discover Sandakan's Landmarks and Enjoy a Local Lunch
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Sandakan

Embark on an exclusive journey with your loved ones or companions to discover the prominent sites of Sandakan. This excursion offers opportunities to see the Australian War Memorial, Sandakan Central Market, the Puh Jih Shih Buddhist Temple, and the Agnes Keith House.

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights

Our driver will pick up you around 9am from your hotel or Airport. We will head to our first stop at Australian War Memorial. It is dedicated to some 2700 Australian POW who died at the Sandakan POW camp and in the ensuing death marches through the jungles of Sabah.

Next pay a visit to Sandakan Central Market, the most amazing variety of fresh seafood and agricultural products.

Then you will move on to  Sim-Sim Water Village. Where houses are all built close to the water surface, which at that time was a narrow, uninhabited coastal fringe of jungle and mangroves.

Lunch will be provide at local Restaurant .

After lunch continue on to  Puh Jih Shih Buddhist Temple. This landmark of ers a breath taking view over Sandakan Bay.

Lastly, you will visit to  Agnes Keith House. Where a famous American writer of the “Land below the Wind” and “White Man Returns”, today the house turned into a heritage house providing interesting insight to life during British.

After finish above mention sightseeing our driver drop off you to your hotel in town area or Airport with sweet memories.

Points of Interest

  • Sandakan
What's Included
  • Local Lunch
  • Goods and Services Tax
  • Round Trip Transportation by AC Car/Minivan
  • English Speaking Tour Guide
What's Not Included
  • Other Food and Drinks
  • Any other things not mentioned in the itinerary
Location
Sandakan
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Vicky_k
May 16, 2024
Wonderful time - The guide & driver were very informative. Were able to change the itinerary to suit us. Helped us with supermarket items ay the end of the tour
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Jennifer_t
Apr 25, 2024
Perfect tour for first time visitors to Sandakan - The half day city tour is a must when first arriving in Sandakan. It gives you a great overall view of the city and its highlights, plus helps you get your bearings on the layout of the town. Our guide Siti and driver Ahmad were brilliant. Both speak English very well and were friendly, knowledgeable and entertaining. We had some great conversations but what I liked best was they didn't rush us at any of the stops, allowing us to stay longer at some places if we wanted to. That's the beauty of a private tour, the itinerary is more flexible. By way of example, we visited the Sandakan Memorial Park the morning before ANZAC Day. To Australians, that's a very important national day of remembrance. Sandakan was the site of a POW camp during WW2 and there was a Dawn Service rehearsal at the time we visited the park, so Siti was very obliging and allowed us to stay for that. Given ANZAC Day was our primary purpose for visiting Sandakan, this tour and our visit to the Memorial Park was perfect timing and a major highlight of our trip. Worth every cent.
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Simon_p
Sep 21, 2022
Great tour would recommend - Great tour our guide (Sita) was a really lovely lady who has such a lovely way about her. She was very knowledgeable about everything in Malaysia and Sandakan and made the tour great fun. Our driver (sorry can remember his name) was also excellent great tour and great way to get to know Sandakan
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Anelazjb
Aug 7, 2019
Short visit with good taste - The layout of the Pasar is normal to other wet markets. Price of sea products is much cheaper than in Semenanjung. Although turtle eggs are forbidden there is still offer for it at a quite cheap price. Please don't buy and boycott this activity.
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Terry_w
Apr 6, 2019
Private tour Joke - Was picked up in a taxi ,driver with very poor English. Was suppose to be a private tour with guide. We were dropped at the locations and give a mobile phone to call driver when we were finished , so that he could go and get his hair cut. Only went to 3 different sites. Wasn't worth the money
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