Tony Knight
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Personally, I would drop Tabin altogether. Nice place but extra driving time for no additional specialities (other than Sabah Hose's Langur), all the birds found at Tabin are at Danum Valley, so it's a bit of a waste of 6 hours driving. It is nice general birding and mammaling though.
As Duncan says, more time at Mt K the better. I'd be tempted to skip Sepilok altogether too, and replace it with more days for Mt Kinabalu, if it's the endemics you're after.
James
Thanks James. I'm not chasing the endemics as such, just trying to to get as wide a selection of birds as possible while there. My wife isn't a birder but tolerates a certain amount of pure birding but she's after the mammals primarily I take a lot of wildlife and bird photos (see Flickr website link) and have read that tabin is great as there is more light than Danum so birds are easier to see and photo. Spending more time at Danum than Tabin though (3 full days vs 1). Night drives are also supposed to be great for cats at Tabin.
With 2 days at Kinabalu which sites/trails should we aim for to cover a variety of habitats and scenery?
Thanks for the advice guys.
Tony