🌳Lahad Datu
#10 National Parks & Rainforest in Malaysia · 2026
Danum Valley Conservation Area
🌺🌺🌺 Highly Recommended · 🌳 National Parks & Rainforest
Why go
A pristine lowland dipterocarp forest with canopy walks and orangutans. Stay at Borneo Rainforest Lodge or the field centre.
⭐ Don't miss: Canopy walkway and night safaris
- Entry fee
- Accommodation packages (RM800+)
- Opening hours
- By arrangement (check before you go)
- Best time to go
- Mar-Oct
- Time needed
- 2-4 days
- How to get there
- 4WD from Lahad Datu (2 hrs); packages arranged via lodge.
- Address
- Danum Valley Conservation Area, 91109 Lahad Datu, Sabah
- Area
- Danum, Lahad Datu, Sabah
- Facilities
- 🧭 guided tours🍽️ restaurant
- Muslim-friendly
- 🕌 Prayer room (surau) on site
Meals provided by lodge - Accessibility
- Not accessible
- Kids
- Kids 8+
☪️ Halal status changes. For food, look for a valid JAKIM certificate (check at myehalal.halal.gov.my). Hotels and venues we have not verified are described as "pork-free", not halal.
⚠️ Safety & weather
- Leeches
- Heavy rain
- Guided walks only
- Danum Valley Studies Centre closes for maintenance 20 Nov–11 Dec 2026, per an operator notice (check before booking)