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Pulau Mabul Slideshow
Pulau Mabul
Travel Blogs from Pulau Mabul, Malaysia
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INCREDIBLE Borneo...Some of the WILD parts
This is a top pick! ... swarms of sharks and turtles along brilliant coral walls in visibility from 20-50 meters every day? We stayed in nearby Pulau Mabul which is an impressive tiny island near Sipadan, they only place off the mainland where its possible to stay. ...
Dive and gone to heaven
This is a top pick! ... around and the contrast between the poor (financially) local families and the up market lodges is clearly visible. The Sipadan Mabul Resort or SMART as it is otherwise know was way beyond our expectations. This might have been as a result of ...
Turtle power!
This is a top pick! ... for the Semporna area which is well know for its excellent reef life and dive sites. We travelled over to a Island called Mabul which is inhabitted with floating villages and longboat houses, the community we walked through to get to our homestay ...
Pulau Mabul and Sipadan
... Cathy snorkeling and lazing about because for the next two days I was going to be very busy. I had booked 3 dives around Mabul Island and the day after 3 dives around SIPADAN Island. Everybody who comes to this corner of Borneo does so for ...
Day 115: Pulau Mabul
... easy in a hammock watching fishermen pass; One boat pulls in with two caught guitar sharks. A short walk along boardwalks, through Mabul village leads to a jetty. It's the weekend and kids are playing marbles in the sand while parents sing karaoke. The ...
Not diving Sipadan
... big enough to hold a few resorts and a local village so allowed a bit of exploring. And we dived all our dives around Mabul and Kapalai. One goes to Sipadan for huge schools and barracuda and shark and tens of turtles, whereas the other sites are great ...
Pulau Mabul
... round the reef. Turtles rested on the coral and it was the scenic dive I had come to see. Very enjoyable. We returned to Mabul for lunch and relaxed before the next dive at 3pm. A boat ride took us round the island to drop onto another wall with less ...
AMAZING DIVING!!!!!!!!!!!!
... was here. We saw countless Turtles and Sharks, as well as loads of other fish and great coral. Sipadan is well worth the money! Mabul was pretty nice too, we liked Uncle Changs where we stayed and even snorkelling on the jetty was great. We met some nice ...
Exploring the Village of Mabul
... like entering into another country altogether! I guess it's best for the pictures to speak for themselves : 2nd Dive : Lobster Wall (Mabul Island): 3rd Dive : Check Point (Kapalai Island): 4th Dive : Plat Form (Mabul Island): Argi did 3 dives today ...
Mabul Island (Sipadan)
... much that day. Well, I said not everyone would want to know, didn't I?!] DAY 3: We explored local waters around Mabul Island. The focus this time was on the smaller sea life. Our excellent Dive Master, Christina, was brilliant at finding the ...
Mabul-Semporna-Tawau-Kuala Lumpur
... . The view from the massage rooms itself was enough to switch on the relaxing mood in us. Like all the other structures on Mabul Water Bungalows, these rooms were actually built on stilts over the sea. You actually look out into the ocean. Too bad we did ...
Mabul
... is well marketed. I even see the signs in the travel shop windows in Australia. I just wish those people to not come here as most of Malaysia is hassle free and a good place. Sabah is not. 10/25/11 Day 26 I woke up 7 AM and got this boat from Semporna ...
Diving Sipadan!
All the main dive schools are on Mabul island so we took the boat over there the next day and checked into Uncle Changs. A really great dive school with loads of lovely people. We did some amazing snorkelling just off the pier, saw the local village and ...
Diving in Sipadan - not guaranteed??!!!
... :20 AirAsia flight from Kuala Lumpur to Tawau and were greeted at the small airport in Tawau by a comfortable, air-conditioned minibus from Mabul-Sipadan Resort, where we will be staying for the next 5 nights. We were then driven to the town of Semporna, ...
Snorkeling Semporna archipelago
... boekte ik een duur vierdaags verblijf op Pulau Mabul. De volgende morgen vooraleer met de speedboat naar het duikresort op Pulau Mabul overgebracht te worden, viel me het hoge testosterongehalte in de diveshop al op (geen locals te bespeuren en uiteraard ...
Mabul Island Anniversary
... in the Philippines has said it was responsible for the kidnapping of 20 people from the remote resort island of Sipadan in eastern Malaysia. The claim was made by Abu Ahmad, a spokesman for the Abu Sayyaf group, in a telephone interview with a ...
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