Country Info
- Kuala Lumpur
- Capital
- Malaysian Ringgit (MYR)
- Currency
- 22,229,040
- Population
- MY
- Country Code
Tawau Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Tawau, Malaysia
Sort by Newest Best first
Surabaya to Nunukan to Tawau
This is a top pick! ... Bank, internet, food and Olympics on the TV (thank you malaysian TV) while away the evening. Expenses - Rupiah: Boat Nunukan to Tawau 90000, departure tax 15000, water 2000 Expenses 7 Ringgit / pound: internet 2, accom 50, taxi 3, dinner 13, bus ...
Diving with the biggest fish in the world...
This is a top pick! After leaving Indonesia we headed straight to Semporna which is a little fishing village on the North East coast of Sabah. This is the jumping-off point for some more great diving at Sipadan & Mabul islands, the reason we had come here. We signed up ...
This is a top pick! 
Sipadan - Diving Heaven
The diving here is outrageous. Between fish and invertebrates that represent every color of the rainbow, there are schools of fish a plenty and a constant highway of turtles cruising past the reef. For the photo of the Pygmy Seahorse I used a ...
Tawau
... Sndakan by bus and had we known our itinerary was going to work out the way it did, we could have flown to Sandakan from the gate beside ours that morning 5 minutes before we took off for Tawau and saved ourselves the day on a bus! The joys of ...
Tawau
... and as soon as the a/c came on I was freezing. The journey was none descript. Arrived into something resembeling a bus station in Tawau in the early evening. Some weird famiy stood about 7 yards away staring at us while Charlotte sorted out her bag. We ...
Diving on Sipidan, Borneo
This is the first of 2 new entries from Borneo and also look at the last entry for Mount Kinabalu because I have added in some pictures because I am back in Singapore with decent speed computers! Sipidan is one of the top 5 dive sites in the world and ...
The View From Kapalai Hurts Our Eyes
... to our arrival on a resort 40 minutes out to sea by speedboat (we did actually rest for about 10 hours at hotel in Tawau last night, but that doesn't count!!!). The resort is built on stilts and the abundance of life in the waters below each ...
Visa Day
... out to the Indonesian embassy at 8am, we had heard that it could take as little as an hour to process the visa, the boat out of Tawau was at 11am so it would be a push. The place was packed when we got there with people taking forms, the guard informed us ...
Danum Valley Conservation Area
Danum Valley - Next I went to the Danum Valley Conservation Area. I had managed to get a space at the research centre, so got a cheap trip, instead of having to pay big money and stay at the official tourist lodge. The Danum Valley is one of the ...
Jungle is massive
So after all the umming and arring, I finally filled the last place for a 3 day, 2 night tour up river to the jungle camp. It was great to have a group again and I felt like I'd known the Redcar for ages. Uncle picked us up (actually this ...
Scuba Diving at Mabul/Sipadan Island
... We did meet some very nice people that stayed on our resort. They were from all over the world, China, Japan, Malaysia, U.S., England. It was fun getting to know the people and even though the diving might have been overrated (and overpriced) ...
En uventet, bizar juleaften
... Daniel; en britisk gut, som sammen med sin bedre halvdel Anthony, i form af en kinesisk-britisk ven gennem mange aar, er immigreret til Malaysia og har her koebt sig et forladt 'beach resort' et lille stykke udenfor byen Tawau, der ligger lige op til den ...
Maliau Basin
... by towns of 60's concrete carbuncles whose layout and atmosphere we didn't really understand. It was difficult to see what Malaysia was? For our 4th wedding anniversary we stayed on one of the many idyllic, Robinson Crusoe islands off the ...
Sipadan Last Day
It was our last day of paradise and we went diving again right off the island of Sipadan. There is a wall of coral that is teaming with life. Turtles and fish and coral and reef sharks made up our day. We dove with a new group today. Five Italians ...
Windowless Luxury
I should be able to whizz through this one. Woke up at 9. Realised we actually did have an 18th century air conditioning unit. Left around 10:30 and got a taxi to the Shervinton. Checked in and went to our posh room, for £20 it's a bargain, only no ...
Sipadan and life on the rig
... 're pretty dangerous to divers too. We headed back ate and then jumped in a boat back to the mainland, where we got transferred to Tawau and where I am now. Just as we got to the main land I realised that I'd left my rash vest and swimming shorts on a ...
Day 33: Travel and Rest Day in Tawau
We had an early start from Turtle island with no more turtle sightings on the way and got the boat to Sandakan where we got a flight to Tawau in the south east of Sabah. We stayed in a nice hotel for the night and I was sadly excited to once more be ...
First day at Danum
... profitable for the country. If it can be shown that regenerating a primary forest with higher biodiversity has tangible benefits for Malaysia, then perhaps the policies might change. Still the outlook is pretty bleak, so I'd better enjoy this ...
On the road again
Time to head off again on another adventure! After one final day of hanging out on the island, a 45 minute boat ride back to the mainland and a quick dinner, I waved goodbye to Semporna for a few days! As before, when I left, this again is my first ...
Leaving a Big Island for a Little One
... where I was then able to catch a bus across the border into Singapore. I love it when a plan comes together. Malaysia was a pretty cool country. It's not quite developed, but it's getting there. Accordingly, things were a little more ...
Flight Tawau - KL
Hoy cogimos el autobus desde Semporna hasta el aeropuerto en Tawau. En el aeropuerto nos encontramos con Darwis, un malayo que conoci en el acuario del Dragon Inn. Este se ofrecio a llevarnos en su coche, aparcado en KL, hasta nuestro hotel. Nos costo ...
Malua II
Not much new to say here. I spent pretty much the whole week helping Philippe harvest seedlings from the shadehouses, which was pretty tedious. I had to carefully collect the leaves and stems, then wash all of the clods of clay from the roots of each ...
turtle power!
so here i am in borneo....a town called sempora to be exact. the island of sipidan has been closed to development so all the dive shops are based over here on the mainland and then we take a very high speed dive boat over to sipidan. bussed ...
Malua camp
Philippe had said that the place we were going to was going to be a bit more basic than Danum, which is pretty luxurious. Malua camp is definitely not like that, but I can deal with that, given the location - see for yourself! These ...
holy crap thats deep
so here i am in borneo and diving and diving and diving. im gonna feel bad about going back to ko tao because the diving here is so much better. sipidan is famous for its sea turtles and i sure havent been disappointed. we pulled up to ...
Borneo
... there from Australia. Flying via Thailand or China or overland India. I have chosen India. Fortunately the flight I bought offered a stop in Malaysia. Unfortunately I had been to Malaysia before and it didn't appeal again. I wanted to give it a wide ...
Sort by Newest Best first