Sukau Rainforest Lodge is determined to enhance guests’ experience and we are constantly finding ways to make sure your stay with us is a special and unforgettable one.

That is why we are incredibly excited to unveil our newly built and furnished villas! The villas are a new room option for guests, and we hope this new upgrade will provide them with extra comfort and will further heighten their 'Borneo experience' during their stay with us.

The new villas have an exquisite Bornean touch and ambiance to them, from its fine architecture design, down to the smallest wood carving details. All villas will be equipped with air-conditioning. Besides that, each villa also has its own private balcony for guests to step out to and enjoy the fresh-air and green surroundings. Compared to our existing standard rooms, the new villa is about 60% larger in size, which makes it an ideal accommodation for parents with little ones. The villa comes with the option of a king-sized bed as well as twin-sharing.

The villas are now available for booking and are expected to be ready by June 2017. However, only four villas will be ready for occupancy in June as the rest of the eight rooms will only be ready by July and September respectively. Due to limited availability, the villas will be on a first-come-first-serve basis.

So if guests would prefer to stay in the new villa during their time with us from June onward, they can enquire and book by contacting us at info@sukau.com

Littering is sadly, still a common practice among local villagers and loads of rubbish can be spotted along Kinabatangan River during river cruises. We decided to do a ‘River Clean-up’ awareness activity on 16 March 2017 from 9.30am-10.30am involving our SRL staff, in which, many of them are locals too. By doing this, we’re not only educating our collaborators, but also all the villagers who saw us picking the rubbish in the river banks around their housing area.

Briefing session

We had 17 volunteers for the activity (some could not participate because of their working schedule and high demand of the lodge during this time) who truly engaged with the cause. It was good to see their great team work and enthusiasm to participate.

Three teams were formed with one monitor by boat (to make sure rules were followed and to control time). In only one hour, 111.5 Kg of rubbish were collected in the surrounding areas of the lodge. The winning team was team no. 2, who collected 10 bags of rubbish which added up 55.8 kg of garbage. The other two teams collected 6 bags each, which was around 30 kg per team.

17 Volunteers

The most common materials found were plastic bottles, polystyrene containers as well as shampoo and detergent bottles. But among all of those, we also found many clothes, slippers, rubber boots, tires, metal cans, one dismantled TV and also a computer! Fortunately, most of the trash we collected were able to be sent off for recycling, which brought about an even greater positive impact!

Before our monthly sustainability talk the following day, all the teams were congratulated for their effort. The winning team received a ‘Sustainable Kit’ which includes a SRL reusable bag, one reusable water bottle and one reusable food container while all the other participants received a reusable food container. In addition to that, everyone received a ‘Friend of Sustainability Certificate’ as a token of appreciation for their cooperation and participation. These prizes are also a way to promote awareness and to make them understand the importance of the 3 R’s: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Hopefully, events like this will continue to happen in the future, helping to heal our planet Earth and educating the present generations.

Again, congratulations to all!