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Semporna Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Semporna, Malaysia
My new favorite country, Malaysia!
... I did in my dive course!). So needless to say i am very very excited to see whats out there.... Anyways, the people in Malaysia are some of the nicest people I have met. Always friendly and offering to help, never trying to rip you off or ...
Living on the rig
Today I continued my course. It went very fast because it was just me and the instructor who was British (so he spoke English!). My first dive of the day I saw more turtles, lion fish, barracuda and a school of jack fish! In the afternoon I saw a coral ...
Certified scuba diver!!
Today I finished my open water course! I had to do all the fun things like run out of air, swim without my mask, take my gear off under water and take a written exam. Thankfully I passed everything! My last check out dive I did under the rig which is ...
Amazing Diving...
... up some people who are staying there. Simon and Linda from the other campus get on my boat! I knew they were diving in Semporna, but didn't know where they were staying so that was a nice surprise. We dove Lobster Wall, Mid Reef, and ...
where to start...on a tale of perfection?
... a place to sit and fall asleep looking at something beautiful? The answer was a 15 minute cab ride to Tampi Tampi "Semporna Beach Resort".... basically a floating, wood pier, flanked by houses on stilts and houses on stilts on the other side...a crew of ...
Diving....in Sipadan and Mabul
Diving, diving and more diving. 4 dives in Mabul and 3 in Sipadan. Unfortunately it was cloudy and partially raining the day I went to Sipadan so now school of Baracuda. Luckily though I did see loads of sharks, wrasses, bumphead parrotfish, turtels, ...
Diving at Pulau Sipadan
So, we arrived yesterday in Mabul which is a quiet tiny island that takes around 20 minutes to walk. Prior to the dive resort here, there were only three homes prior. Now, there is a village on stilts, a small resort on land, and our ...
The Sea Gypsies of Borneo
The Sea Gypsies are nomadic people with no country or nationality of their own. They spend their lives on tiny boats wandering from place to place. they do everything including cooking and sleeping on board. they collect sticks and cook on open fires ...
Orangutang and so much more!
En helt vanvittig lang dag er tilbakelagt, hvor vi har gått i tilsammen ni timer i en sinnsyk badstu med lange ermer og bukse, pluss spesialsokker som beskytter mot blodiglene det floerer av her. Beina verker, kroppen får et sårt trengt ...
liquid adventures
this place is awesome! We stayed on a converted oil rig, three dives a day, four meals a day and entertainment courtesy of the delightful Dr Cooper who made an epic journey from the UK to join us. The rig was transported from Thailand (I think) and ...
SIPADAN!
... in the world year after year, it's clear that this island has something special going for it. After the hour-long boat ride from Semporna to the diving Mecca that is Sipadan, we had to jump on to the island and register for our permits. After that, we ...
Let's learn to dive
"The nondescript bay town of Semporna isn’t going to capture many hearts on its own" - Lonely Planet... It was fairly easy for us to leave the jungle at Kinabatangan as we are planning to head back to the ...
PADI qualified!
... living there without power, water or anything else you might think as the basics. They are not considered citizens of Malaysia and are left alone by the government (including government provided services.) If you are born here then you are destined to ...
Påskestemning :)
Jeg sovner og våkner av plasking i vannet rundt og under meg. Jeg går inn på badet og titter ned i sjøen nedenfor (og ja, man kan ligge i badekaret og se ned i havet). Det er fortsatt mørkt ute, men da jeg skrur på utelyset ...
I saw a hammerhead!!
... very glad I checked with them or I'd have missed my flight. The transfer takes a lot longer that usual as it's election day in Malaysia and there are long queues along the road as people go to the voting stations. We arrive with only a few minutes left ...
Turtles, sharks and barracudas
Yesterday it was our last day of open water course with the final certificate that allow us to get down to 18 meters. We had 2 nice dives at Mabul island, but nothing in compared with today. This morning we got up at 6AM: never do that to go in the ...
Semporna
Sunday 27th After a pleasent drive from Danum valley to Lahu Datu i had to wait for the local minibus to Semporna to fill. During my wait near a small market I was hassled numerous time by 2 men seeing exactly the same sunglasses and seemed put out ...
First day diving by myself
Today Burke went to Sipadan, where seaventures gave him an extra permit, and I stayed back and dove around Mabul island and kapalei island. I got pretty mad that they would separate us on my first day after my course but they didn't seem to care and they ...
Enter the dive experience
Having spent about 18 hours to get here, arrival in Semporna was a bit of an anticlimax: I had heard the city was dirty, but it even beat my expectations! Be warned, avid traveler: go straight for the islands, unless you crave the choice of eateries ...
Just keep swimming
... didn't sem to have any broken bones although we couldn't begin to work out where it'd come from. We get on a bus to Semporna, the nearest mainland town to Sipidan. Unfortunately for us, Hari Raya (A Malay Festival) is upon us and there are no permits ...
Semporna
... päivästä tulisi lepopäivä. Ainoa homma olisi hankkia snorkkelointimatka Mabul saarelle ja odotella pyykiä pesulasta. Semporna kuuluu ehdottomasti top10 listalle jonne en haluaisi tulla uudestaan, on senverran kurja paikka. Toisaalta nämä kurjat ...
Diving novices become certified and addicted
We arrived in Semporna with legs still aching from the mountain and decided to spend the first few days relaxing. We quickly realised that there wasn't much else to do but dive and so we spent the days hopping from cafe to restaurant never really spending ...
Semporna, Sipadan, Sea Gypsies & learning to dive
... my research and we had already bought flights from Sandakan back to KK, then a connection to Tawau (the closest airport to Semporna). The flight a pleasant 45 minute hop over the middle of Sabah. Despute it being so short, the smiling AirAsia ...
Snorkeling Semporna archipelago
... watching Chinese ghost movies on the bus with breaks to change a wheel and/or cool down the aircon with a garden hose, I arrived in Semporna, a dirty and ugly town on the east coast of Borneo. There I booked an expensive four day stay on Pulau Mabul. The ...
Mabul Island
... here that went something like: Arrive at airport......No one turns up to collects us.... find our way by taxi to Semporna (translated from local dialect to mean "Throw all your rubbish in the river".......taxi driver takes us to wrong dive ...
Semporna, duiken!
Semporna is the place to be om te leren duiken. Op 3 dagen tijd heb ik m'n PADI brevet gehaald, daarmee mag ik 18m diep duiken. ...
At Kapalai Island
Arrived yesterday at Kapalai Island ... nothing to do but watch the sea, watch the sky and dive ..... bliss!!! Huts on stilts in the middle of the Celebes Sea 45 mins from the mainland by speedboat. Two dives today very nice. ...