Clients Many Many Commments Page about Jodi's & Jungle Adventures

LODGING: We enjoyed our stay at the Harbor View. Not a bad deal for the cost. Nice service, interesting clientele and a great location (our room had a great view).
The buffet was good as well. I would definitely keep using this place.

Lubok Kasai Jungle lodge: We really liked this lodge. It was spartan, but comfortable and clean and you couldn’t ask for a better location. The hikes were great,
we got to swim in the river and the food they cooked up was excellent & we got to see wild Orangutans!

Gayana Eco Resort: Really nice place. Highly recommend it. Amazing service, food was excellent, spa was great,
and the rooms were beautiful. The dive shop is also well equipped with new gear and good dive masters.

Bako National Park: Great wild life viewing and a beautiful location. The only downside is the rooms (canteen and common areas are fine). The outside of the
rooms look great, but inside they are just skeevy. We think that they are just doing the minimum necessary upkeep before the new facilities are up and running.
The experience was easily dealt with.......would not have wanted to miss staying overnight and the advantages that it gave us. All that said,

we wouldn’t have given up going to the park, its well worth dealing with the facilities for a night and would do it again -
If you have a client that isn't used to roughing it I would say stay clear.

City Tour: Great orientation of the city. We’re definitely glad we did it first thing when we arrived at Kuching because it was helpful for the rest of the stay.

Longhouse Trip: the whole jungle trip was fantastic. The Iban boat drivers were impressive and the hikes were really good and they gave a good feel for the jungle environment.

(we got to see wild Orangutans) We'll tell you all about the Orangutans when we see you. It was really amazing. Rives was impressive at tracking them. We saw a couple of females,

a couple of babies and I think a male. It was fantastic. Also really enjoyed the waterfall side trip.

GUIDE: Rives: Great guide. Very knowledgeable about the wildlife and culture and good animal tracker. He was also personable and responsive to any requests we had.

HIGHLIGHTS: The trip was one big highlight ..........but I think our favorites were the trip up the Delok River(through the jungle) and R&R at the Eco Gayana Resort.

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City Hotel: Harbor View Hotel: Clean neat and comfortable. Breakfast was excellent in quality and choices.

Tours: Iban Longhouse visit: A interesting opportunity to observe the culture and interact with local indigenous people. The Iban of this longhouse
were welcoming, friendly and open to sharing their culture and way of life. The trail to the mountain rice fields provided an interesting detail and lovely
scenery for photography. Food was the same as prepared for the family. Tasty, flavorful, varied and generous.

Bako National Park: Wildlife were ample including Proboscis Monkey, Wild Boar, colorful dragonflies, and butterflies. Landscapes at low tide are
very photogenic. Well suited for Eco- Photo Touring.

Kuching City tour: Kuching is a beautiful city with the cosmopolitan appeal of Malaysian, Indian, Chinese and
Indigenous influences. The waterfront, and market tours ….provide both interesting sights as well as photo opportunities.

GUIDE: Lemon exceeded my expectations. He was knowledgeable, friendly and professional. I would rank him with the
best local guides that I have had the pleasure to work with on my numerous previous tours.

HIGHLIGHTS: In hindsight there were many highlights. Kuching and the temples were amazing. Even the food at the
local restaurant was a pleasure. The opportunity to spend time with the Iban was worth the trip.

Perhaps the greatest highlight was meeting and working with people I feel I can trust and work with in the future –
one of the goals of my trip.

JUNGLE JAUNTS SERVICE: Your advice was what I wanted and it proved to be very valuable. Lots of documentation that is valuable
for the experienced and novice world traveler to Borneo……
Jodi, you clearly put a considerable effort into developing this tour and setting up opportunities for me..
Sanford Morris, sandy@imagesbysem.com. (Professional photographer): NY USA Jan. '10

From KL: ... just to let you know all is going well and on schedule, Traders is a great hotel and the location is perfect.

From Brunei: .....we just arrived at the empire hotel (Brunei) which is spectacular,

It was a good trip, all the guides and transfers showed up and were on time and professional and all were willing to answer questions.

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Swiss Inn: Comfortable and friendly as well as convenient for arriving in Sandakan in the evening.

Abai Jungle Lodge: Great. Enjoyed the fewer people and the remote location. Would have preferred to have done
two nights there and only one at Kinabatangan due to number of people.

Kinabatangan Riverside Lodge: Comfortable, great food, friendly people, great service.

Borneo Rainforest Lodge: Awesome place, wonderful staff and spectacular service. Truly a wonderful experience,
hence we extended the stay there. That is exactly what we enjoy smaller numbers of people and really wild.

River Safari: Great / Abai Village: Wonderful day out with lunch and tree planting / Danum Valley: Awesome.

We had a wonderful trip to Borneo and will be back again definitely... Also we extended our stay at Danum a night.

Malaysia will always amaze the traveler with it’s spectacular scenery and wildlife so

pleasing customers in that regard should be easy. What the customer wants to feel is

that the tour is being tailored to suit them and the level of personal service is sufficient

I feel that people we encountered did all in their power to ensure we felt well cared for.

Jungle Trip: We were fortunate enough to encounter a young (5-6 year old) male orang utan in the wild. He was absolutely amazing, demonstrating how strong and

impressive he could be. We could have stayed for hours watching and interacting with him, but we knew our presence was disturbing, so after 15-20 minutes

Guide: Our guide, Mel, was very good. He added much to our experience with his knowledge.

We'll go back to Borneo. Next time, we will spend only a day or so in the city, 3 days as deep in the jungle as possible and then likely move east to Sabah with the same pattern.

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The highlights for me were the river exploring; we saw silver-leaf monkeys, wild orangatans and two babies with mothers, pig tail and long tail macats,vipers, and crocs.

Please rate my services concerning the relevance of the advice given to prepare you for what to bring and expect:

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The reactions from the whole family are: Awesome; fabulous; a wonderful adventure; Great.
The number of different experiences were great, the pacing and the order of what we saw was excellent.

   Our main guide Azhar was wonderful and he really helped make our trip as memorable as it was. He was very knowledgeable, pleasant and fun to be
   around. Really can't say enough good things about him. Also, everything ran on time! The drivers we had were also great.
   Please describe the highlights of your trip.
Orangutans, the river trip, longhouse experience, Mulu caves, Bako both
hiking and the animals, Topspot restaurant (especially #25 and the gelato
place there). The Sarawak Regatta. Relaxing at Nexxus. We all had so much fun!

Please rate my services concerning the relevance of the advice given to prepare you for what to bring and expect:
The information you provided to help us prepare was excellent and we really had all the clothes and other items like flashlights
etc we needed. You managed our expectations very well. Compared to some of the other people we met along the way
we felt very prepared.

Dear Jodi,

Just a quick note during our free day in Kuching.
We are having a great time. Our guide is wonderful and we are really enjoying ourselves. One of the drivers we have had knows you and sends his regards.
We have already done the longhouse and will be doing Bako tomorrow. There is a big festival in Kuching yesterday, today and tomorrow and we are all really enjoying that. There is boat racing, stalls, music, parades and we even saw the Chief Minister of Sarawak. I have so many photos I can't decide on which to send you but if Iget the chance or feel like doing e-mail later I will send some along. We have met a lot of people over here and so far think that the order of activities on this trip is really excellent.

Underwood Family CA Aug.'08 - (view thank-you note)

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I have been traveling and living around the world since I was 25 years old, so that is about, I’m shy to say, 37 years. Several trips have made my personal category, “Dream trips of a life-time.” I can honestly say that Borneo easily made the category. Why? It is beautiful country with friendly, sincere people, and has exotic and exciting things to see and do: indigenous tribes, wildlife, safaris. It is really a first class jungle jaunt.

The stay at the Kinabatangan Jungle Lodge with the wildlife viewing boat trips was another highlight. The guides and boatmen took such good care of me that they were almost like family. I saw 20 different types of birds, mammals and reptiles including wild orangutan, pygmy elephants, and hornbills....... I think by the time you get that deep into the jungle, only like minded people are there. In most cases, I was the oldest person by far, but I didn’t even think about that until later because I was always treated like everyone else.

Mike, HI USA July '08 - (view thank-you note)

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The trip was well organized meeting all our expectations......we have been travelling (in nature) a lot.
This was excellent trip to get a bit of everything and there was possibility to skip some small trips if you wished. There is always somebody who likes more city tours and somebody who likes more jungle trips. The most important is your group and guide you're traveling with. In our case everything was just perfect.
Jody! Everything was very well organized...... the information about the trip you provided was clear and understandable.
Tina, Estonia June '08

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Our longhouse visit: reflecting on going into deep jungle with the Iban tribe is still amazing. The scenery was spectacular spectacular. I took a lot of pictures but who knows if I captured the moment. It was just so green as we rounded each bend - the green of the forest would reflect off the water turning it this nice shade of green ... complete with reflections of the rainforest. The deeper you go in, the better it got & the noisier it gets from the sounds of the jungle... insects & animals ... At no time did it look anything like 'The Jungle Cruise' at Disneyland!

Lunch on the river at a waterfall: they treated us to Iban fishing .... he takes this net and throws it into the river. Somehow he pulls out fish ….. The boatman pulls out a belt and a machete and literally runs up into the jungle. About 5-8 minutes later, he returns with this incredibly nice piece of bamboo that you would use to decorate your house …6-8 feet long. As it turns out, they are going to use this to "cook" lunch. The lunch was incredible, ’catered’ from scratch --- using branches and bamboo and fire.

The ride back to their longhouse was the BEST. They shut off the motor and we just floated downstream - through thick, incredible jungle. No words could/should describe this... easily outdid my previous best boat ride on the Mekong. WOW ..The highlight of the trip!

We could talk about my first night at the Longhouse, but it was sort of unbelievable. We meet the 'chief', an elderly patient man. There was a "town meeting" and everyone was sitting around (literally), as the "group" was discussing future longhouse plans/expansion…………..Somewhere in there the rice wine comes out………. I was even invited into the “hunters’ room to share some beer and food from a recent hunt!

Back in the “city” I wanted to buy a carving I saw enroute to the airport, but had no time to make the purchase. Just being able to slip some money into an envelope, take off in a rushed manner & then having the quality of “service” and care & concern afterwards blows my mind. Life is just not that simple, unless you are dealing with exemplary people. A thousand thanks . Nice karma.

Unfortunately many people I know are fearful about traveling to this part of the world....There is not much for me to say – guess all I can do is show my pictures to everyone and assure them that the people there are “exemplary.”
There is MUCH for Americans to learn.

Craig CA, USA
Jan. ‘08

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One of my greatest trips yet. The Santubong climb, swimming in the underground river in Mulu …. and traveling up and down the jungle rivers by longboat during the longhouse tour, were certainly the highlights for me. But there were many other enjoyable experiences as well. GUIDES: I had three different ones: and they were all first-rate: knowledgeable, reliable and able to express themselves very well in English. A bad guide can ruin a trip like this, so it is important to go with a tour company that gets good guides. I had 3 good ones. The guide on the ‘adventure’ caving expedition was excellent.. He could see my balance wasn’t as good as the other two tourists (ain’t a kid anymore, alas!) and he did all kinds of subtle things to help me along, that he probably thought I didn’t notice, but I did.

LUXURY HOMESTAY: Loved it! Beautiful place, and owner is certainly an interesting and entertaining conversationalist.

JUNGLE JAUNTS SERVICE: Jodi, your service was superb. You know the country, you were very reliable (you did what you said you were going to do) you took a real interest in me…you made me feel that the success of my trip was something that was important to you..
You told us exactly what to expect. You supplied extensive information including pictures, and answered all our questions. If you didn’t know something you took the time and trouble to find out, even if it took international phone calls.
All this is far beyond the service I’ve gotten from any travel agent in the past.
… taking into account that you got me discounts on tours and on my hotel, it didn’t cost me anything to use your service, and look at all the benefits I got!
Joe
CA, USA
Jan. ‘08
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I discovered Jungle Jaunts on the Internet, and very rapidly Jodi put together a personalized package. My family (myself, husband and 10 year-old daughter) traveled to Borneo to see wildlife. What we discovered was a part of the world that appears untouched. It was an incredible experience. Everything worked like clockwork- the airplanes, the highly professional personal guide and drivers. Our trip was so much more than we had anticipated.

My daughter who is 10 years old was the one who initiated this trip. Oh the anticipation! the thrill of the first wild orangutan. We could hear them and sense their presence, but no words can express the joy in my little girl's face when she looked up and there it was - swinging on the vine.

The drama and suspense of hiking quietly in the wild until the guide spots what may be a group.. and then the ultimate thrill! We had hoped to see a few Proboscis Monkeys and some orangutans....

We saw everything we wanted and much more. The fact that the region is almost undiscovered gave us the opportunity to see these magnificent animals in their habitat at very close quarters.

The serenity and peace of Borneo was beyond anything we could have hoped for. It was like a slice of paradise and we were the only guests. The hospitality of the tribes and the warmth with which we were received in the Long House was extremely humbling.

One of the best holidays we have been on. Memories for a lifetime. Hope my daughter can recount her experiences for others so that there is more interest in eco travel.

Absolutely fantastic.

I would readily recommend Jungle Jaunts to anyone wishing to travel to
Malaysian Borneo or that region.
I am simply reborn.

Greg, Tinu and Annelise

NY, USA Sept. '07
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......I then set out on one of the most fascinating trips I have ever been on (to an Iban longhouse) ......The fact that the natives allowed us to come into their homes to visit is a once in a life-time experience.

being able to see the rare Proboscis Monkeys at such close range was breathtaking and enabled me to take awesome photographs..........

Visiting the Orangutans in their natural habitat was wonderful....I have never seen an orangutan so close-up

I was lucky to meet up with Jodi....she had an enormous amount of information about everything ....... Because of her contacts, I was able to experience many things that a typical tourist would never be able to experience. ..... When you are traveling it is unusual to be invited into peoples’ homes, and so to be included in these home visits, socialize with the locals and eat their food was a great honor.

I also enjoyed strolling through the town of Kuching with its beautiful waterfront promenade, its restaurants, 5-Star hotels, craft stores, and markets; and I couldn’t resist leaving without purchasing some beautiful gold jewelry and native crafts.... at unbelievably low prices. It is hard to imagine that this bustling city is only a 45 minute ride away from primary rainforests!!

I recommend this trip highly! Jodi was a wonderful hostess,
I saw things I would never have seen if she had not been organizing this trip.... the guide from the local tour company hired by Jungle Jaunts was very knowledgeable and took great care of us. He made me feel very secure and relaxed on the Jungle trip.

Jean Couturas
CT, USA
Oct. ‘06

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