Our favourite Borneo tours and excursions

From multi-day rainforest treks to tribal longhouse stays, Borneo offers some of the most unforgettable travel experiences on the planet.

You don’t come to Borneo to do things by halves. You want the very best guides, in the very best locations, with the very best range of activities, or nothing. In the world’s greatest wildlife destination, why settle for anything less?

By its very wild and untamed nature, much of Borneo impossible to explore without a guide – and we’re only interested in working with the very best. You can always spot them: they’re the ones who’ve never stopped being enthused about the sheer magnitude of the forest, and the ones who are as excited by a big cat’s pawprint as by the tiniest rare spider, even after years of guiding. Those are the people we want to show you Borneo.

Borneo isn’t just an untouched rainforest paradise. It’s a living, breathing island full of culture and contradictions, with street-food markets to explore, mountains to climb, coral reefs to marvel at, conservation challenges to face, and scores of different indigenous groups with whom to share an evening and a little tuak rice wine. These are the experiences that’ll get you beneath the surface.

Trekking in the Pinnacles in Mulu National Park

Trekking the Headhunter's Trail & Mulu Pinnacles

Challenge yourself with this guided five-day expedition into Mulu National Park, combining cave exploration with two of our favourite treks.

Start by following a trail once used by fearsome Kayan headhunting parties, who paddled up the Melinau River to the gorge and dragged their longboats for three kilometres to launch raids against the Limbang. Then comes the real challenge (should you choose to accept it): the 45-metre-high, razor-sharp limestone Pinnacles. Though only 2.5 km in length, the path to the Pinnacles ascends some 1,200 metres in altitude, emerging onto a rocky outcrop with magnificent views. It’s a tricky climb with an even trickier descent – but don’t worry, it’s optional.

Meeting the Iban people

Borneo’s Iban people may have abandoned their former practice of headhunting, but thankfully their traditional culture survives in many other forms.

Iban live in longhouses with up to 30 families under one roof, and in the evenings, these houses are filled with drinking, dancing and general merriment. Spend the night and be prepared to be plied with tuak rice wine and roped into a dance or two, to the inevitable amusement of your hosts! The Iban way of life may not have all the mod cons (or privacy) you’re used to, but it affords a sense of community that’s long faded from Western culture, and for us it’s one of the highlights of a trip to Borneo.