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Mabul
... Tawau town is 28 kilometers from the airport, whereas Semporna is 95 or so KM. There is absolutely nothing in Tawau town. It's a big town with a few shops and a few five story buildings, but absolutely nothing exciting ever happens in this town. This town is the gateway to Indonesia. The Indonesia border is less than 1 KM away from here, but I believe it's not an open border and you have to take a boat to Indonesia from here. The day was pretty much full of not much ...
AMAZING DIVING!!!!!!!!!!!!
It's hard to describe just how good the 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 people, including Juraj from Slovakia and had a few drunken nights. All in all a ...
Mountain Climbing
... heading down to the start of the via ferrata.Much quicker walking back down the 1km or so to the via ferrata activity start. The views as dawn broke were spectacular and worth the climb. I was fortunate not to have the headache from the day before and quite enjoyed the morning. We arrived at the start of the via ferrata with 15min to spare. We had something to eat and donned helmets and harnesses ready to head down. The via ferrata is the highest in ...
Uncle Tan's, Sabah
... avidly hunting around to spot the next big thing. We were never quick enough to beat the experts. The guides were all locals from around Sandakan, who had spent years just training to spot things from so far away – eyes like hawks. They had some great knowledge too, telling us all about the right plants to eat and the wrong ones to use as toilet paper. Most of the things we saw by day were crazy poisonous caterpillars or huge spiders, while ...
Turtle Power
... ways, the babies were of course utterly adorable but had competition from some of the youths who did forward rolls and swinging acts much to the crowds amusement. We would have loved to stay for hours if it wasn’t for the heat. It was absolutely roasting and we were sweating buckets, Steve thought someone had spilt a bottle of water next to him but realised it was his own sweat dribbling down his elbows into puddles – lovely!
We were thrilled with ...

