Kota Kinabalu Sky-Mirror Beach & Proboscis Monkey River Cruise: Explore Wildlife and Sunset
4.2
83 Ratings
Bongawan
Experience the magic of the Kota Kinabalu Sky-Mirror Beach & Proboscis Monkey River Cruise. Encounter adorable proboscis monkeys, capture stunning sunset photos, and marvel at the enchanting fireflies at night.
Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Bongawan - 14:45 -15:20 Hotel Reception Pick Up\n\n15:30-16:20 Mangrove Jetty High Tea\n\n16:30 On Boat explore mangrove, searching Proboscis Monkey and Monkey King\n\n17:45Super view beach photographing and free and easy (Sunset, Sky Mirror)\n\n18:50 On boat for view fantasy Fireflies \n\n19:30 Dinner in Jetty\n\n20:00 Ready On board back to City\n\n21:10 Reach Hotel City area and outskirt more 20-40mins.
What's Included
  • Hotel Transfer
  • Tour Guide
  • Dinner
  • Snacks
  • Tea and coffee
  • Beach Photographer
What's Not Included
  • Personal expenses
  • Outskirt of city extra fee MYR15~25
  • Tipping
Additional Information

Set out from your Kota Kinabalu hotel in the afternoon. Once you arrive, have a welcome drink and high tea for rest before depart for searching proboscis monkey and monkey king, The shy Proboscis monkey which like to eat leaves often wait for your arrival and hiding at tree watching you like playing hide and seek.In the river, we come to visit monkey king family. They are so cute and not afraid with human. Some baby monkey come on front to have banana from you.

Then we go to the Superview Beach,somebody also call it Sky-mirror Beach, the great sunset point and beach remain the water as mirror. That is the main objective we introduce in the mangrove tour \

Location
Bongawan
Cancellation Policy

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

Customer Ratings
4.2
(83 Ratings)
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Petra_n
Jun 16, 2024
Excellent trip thank you! - Excellent trip! It was so beautiful to see monkeys in their natural habitat. Nick and James really went out of their way to make the trip special, and James took great care in helping to capture the best photos at Sky Mirror beach. Fireflies were great too, and the fire display at dusk on the beach was an added bonus. Would definitely recommend!
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Marinakh196kt
Jun 13, 2024
Amazing experience - We had an amazing experience w feeding the monkeys and watching the fireflies in front of your face. Strongly recommend this tour. The crew will do everything in order for each person to get the best pictures by the water.
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Marina_k
Jun 4, 2024
Amazing experience! - The most memorable part is to feed the monkeys from hand and see the fireflies in front of your face. Its one in the life time experience! You do not need binnacles like other companies recommend to take. I did a lot of research before we booked w this crew. I would strongly recommend to book with them! The crew will do everything in order for you to have this amazing experience. And more, they will take pictures to make it memorable.
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741danas
May 20, 2024
Definitely worth checking out - I had a blast on this adventure! I was surprised it was a 2-hr drive from Kota Kinabalu but they made the whole afternoon very much worth it. The guides were funny and made sure we all got super close to the macaques and pointed out the Proboscis monkeys. They even saw a couple monitor lizards and pointed them out. They were really attentive during the sunset photography which I appreciated because I traveled solo and they got some AMAZING shots! The dinner was delicious and the firefly part was hilarious and fun. Totally worth it!
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Mals25
May 4, 2024
Highly recommend this tour and tour company - Great experience with a great group and an even better guide. The fireflies were incredible and the guide worked super hard to get the perfect sky mirror shot.
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Hha
May 3, 2024
Good view of fire flies - This tour is available for solo travelers. The fireflies were beautiful even in the rain. The guide was very nice.
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Etosha_k
Apr 24, 2024
ENJOYABLE EVENING - Great! Tour guide, James, was very informative. Saw tons of monkeys and fireflies. Yummy dinner. Great photographs taken by tour guide for us.
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Langmanswitzerland
Nov 30, 2023
Magical fireflies and mirror photography experience - An amazing experience overall despite the rain and drizzle during parts of the afternoon. *Pick up was on time and Nick kept everyone in the group posted of the arrival at each hotel. I liked their use of the whatsapp group festure so that we could contact them when needed. *Commuter van was comfy with cool AC.  Journey was about 1.5 hrs to the river. * toilets at the River cruise point were very clean and are sitting toilets. Avoid those at the petrol station midway if you could. * Our guides James spoke good English while Dandan was proficient in mandarin. * experience with the long-tail monkeys was "interactive". Guide James was a Wildlife Whisperer. The monkeys came on board our boat to eat bananas and melon seeds but they were not aggressive.  James knew how to deal with them. Even the kids could feed bananas to the monkeys. There were more than a dozen of them including a mama with baby. * Also spotted monitor lizard and baby salt water crocodiles. * Dinner was not fancy but satisfying.  I enjoyed the home-cooked curry chicken and stir fried bee hoon, amongst other dishes on a buffet layout. * in part II of the tour, we spotted 2 proboscis monkeys on a tree top.  It was a matter of good fortune as they are wild and sometimes do not make appearance at all.  They do not respond to any lure, apparently. We respected that. * photography on the mirror beach was fun.  The rain stopped just in time and the dusk colours were sufficient to provide some lovely hues.  James, Nick and Dandan helped guests take photos and they really went all out to help us with natural poses and getting some nice memories even at the expense of themselves getting wet in the tide that came in. I even did a small jump and was surprised how good the photo turned out * The best was at the end when we cruised back to the twinkle lights of the fire flies, which lined both sides of the river.  They even flew towards us so that we could play with them up close. The crew knew how to use light to interact with the fire flies so that they responded to our presence. Nick, with a sweep of his hand, put several fireflies into my palm, one at a time. It was a magical Christmas tree experience that would stay in my mind for a long time. * Arrived back in hotel just before 9pm. My heart felt full after the experience with nature and the friendly and helpful team. Every member crew was good, including the skipper who kept us safe and the mama cooks who prepared our dinner.  Thank you all for the wonderful time.  I wish everyone happiness.
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Brent
Apr 29, 2024
Great Fun - Everything went to plan from on time hotel pick up to return drop off. Had Macaque monkeys join us on the boat, proboscis moneys were a bit more elusive but we did glimpse them and the fire flies rounded out the entertainment. Nice dinner and beach too.
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Peter_b
Mar 6, 2024
Beautiful beach but a tour to give a miss - Communication from time of booking until being picked up by bus was first rate. After that it felt for the most part that we had a driver but no guide. We received a n informative 5 minute spiel about monkeys and some excitement when watching fireflies but instruction and information otherwise. Feeding macaques so that they reliably turned up, to the point that they wandered amongst us on the boat felt like a practice we grew out of in the 1980's, understanding that it is not healthy and can lead to aggressive behaviour if not fed as expected. Not much effort went into finding proboscis monkeys... we returned to dinner location well before dusk when sightings were more likely. Time allowed for dinner therefore was excessive.
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