🏯Sandakan
#13 Heritage Sites in Malaysia · 2026
Sandakan Memorial Park
🌺🌺🌺 Worth the Detour · 🏯 Heritage Sites
Why go
A quiet memorial on the site of the WWII Sandakan prisoner-of-war camp, with a garden, ponds and a museum. Moving and well kept.
⭐ Don't miss: The memorial and the camp site displays
- Entry fee
- Free
- Opening hours
- Daily about 8am–5pm (check before you go)
- Best time to go
- Morning
- Time needed
- 1 hour
- How to get there
- 10 min Grab from Sandakan town; free parking.
- Address
- Jalan Labuk, 90000 Sandakan, Sabah
- Area
- Taman Rimba, Sandakan, Sabah
- Facilities
- 🚻 toilets🅿️ free parking
- Muslim-friendly
- 🕌 Prayer room (surau) on site · 🍽️ Halal food nearby
Surau nearby. - Accessibility
- Mostly flat paths.
- Kids
- Educational, quiet.
☪️ 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.
🍜 Where to eat nearby
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