Seafest Hotel Semporna

... No tengo muchas ganas de irme a la cama, pero estoy cansada. Manana temprano cogemos el bote a Mabul para empezar nuestros 3 dias de buceo. Tenemos Sibuan manana, Sipadan pasado y Mabul el ultimo dia. Dicen que Sipadan es uno de los mejores lugares en toda Asia para bucear. Que ganas! Pasamos la tarde reservando vuelos. Despues del buceo volaremos a Kuala Lumpur desde Tawau, el 7 de Noviembre. Una vez alli ...

... 90 <br>___________________________________ ___________<br><br>*3 DAYS 2 NIGHTS<br>VIP - (TOILET ATTACH IN EVERY ROOM)RESORT + <br>HOMESTAY + BREAKFAST + MEAL+ BOAT TO <br>MABUL+ TAXI.<br>- ONLY ...

... everyone all dressed up in their colourful outfits and celebrating. We had to argue with an old European guy who wouldn't give us our bags back that we'd left behind at our guesthouse, as if it was unheard of for backpackers to knock on the door requesting luggage back from the cupboard in the corner. We got them in the end and felt we deserved a pizza hut for all our troubles so treated ourselves and ate pizza in bed whilst watching Lost.<br>

... m not stupid enough to go into the cave... well, not that far into it anyway. We swam in about 20 metres, past a sign with a skull and crossbones on it warning divers to stay out, swam until it was pitch black and the darkness enveloped us. It was genuinely creepy, just floating there in the blackness, not being able to see your own hand in front of your face. I've done a night dive before on the Great Barrier Reef ...

... and how to avoid our lungs exploding. This was very lucky because with this being Borneo, they're not exactly ship shape when it comes to safety. Now I think about it, I never once had to actually prove that I had a SCUBA Diving licence, I just said I did. There were no refresher courses or even someone in charge- they just took us out in a boat and dumped us over the side. Well, I guess you get what you pay for ...

... veje paa hele Java til ca. 160 millioner ud af 250 indonesere...og oeen er ikke saerligt stor.<br>Det foerste vi gjorde var at se den aktive vulkan Bromo og bo i en lille bjerglandsby ved siden af den. Det var vores foerste moede med en temperatur der ikke var egnet til vores strandtoej. Men det var meget rart at komme lidt vaek fra Malaysias varme og hoeje luftfugtighed.<br>Herefter tog vi til det store indonesiske ...

... and had lunch we didn't go out on<br>the boat again, instead we wandered around the island for a while. The<br>was a little fishing town on the other side, again all the houses were<br>built above the water on stilts and all the local kids followed us<br>around for a bit. We saw a few fishing boats coming in loaded up with<br>huge barracuda fish that they had just caught. We found an old jetty<br>that reached about 100 metres out to sea so we chilled out there for a<br ...

... the beautiful scenery and the advantages of being your very own independent diver and how important that was. I buckled and decided I must do this advanced course or I would never be the same again and live in forever worth of regret. <br><br>I arrived on June 30th... when I booked the journey I was told that there are permits required to dive on Sipidan. Yes they only allow 120 divers in the area per day. The Island itself is guarded by Malaysian army men standing ...

... a spotlight. There wasn't a great deal around but we did manage to see a few owls, frogs, a weasel type thing and several sets of crocodile eyes!<br>The morning boat ride was a lot more successful. We saw several different types of bird including fish eagles, horn-bill, kingfishers , monitor lizards, snakes, long tail macac and everyones favourite the Oranguntan. I've got an awesome picture of a female with her baby just chillin out in the tree! Late morning we ...

... a free cooked breakfast every morning - you really shouldnt give people baked beans then put them all in a room together! Anyway we were tired, diving is hard work but today was the jewel in the crown - the Sipadan Islands, number one dive site where all the big stuff goes! We dropped down 20m of vertical wall covered in coral, and sank to about 20 metres but the wall just carried on and on into the deep blue sea ...