Pulau Mabul, Malaysia Travel Blogs

INCREDIBLE Borneo...Some of the WILD parts
Feb 9, 2007 (20 photos)

... 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.  ...

Turtle power!
Jun 4, 2008 (51 photos)

... 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 ...

Dive and gone to heaven
Mar 17, 2008 (25 photos)

... 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 our ...

Day 115: Pulau Mabul
Jan 15, 2007

... 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 jetty ...

Pulau Mabul
Sep 3, 2008 (8 photos)

... 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 ...

Not diving Sipadan
Mar 19, 2009 (34 photos)

... 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 if ...

Scuba Report - Pulau Mabul and Rescue Diver
Oct 2, 2007 (21 photos)

Mabul Dive Report - 02-10-07     Mabul is another of the many island off about the coast of Sabah and a 45 minute boat ride from Semporna. This island has some accommodations and diving facilities but as of right now not many budget options ...

Exploring the Village of Mabul
Jan 3, 2009 (22 photos)

... 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 at ...

Mabul Island (Sipadan)
Sep 8, 2008 (14 photos)

... 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 tiniest ...

Mabul-Semporna-Tawau-Kuala Lumpur
Jan 7, 2009

... . 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 ...

Diving in Sipadan - not guaranteed??!!!
Jan 2, 2009 (13 photos)

... 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, where ...