Sipadan Inn Semporna

... which is right off of Sipadan. <br><br>While I was there I met good friends such as Juan, Jose, Christina, Joe, John, Johnny, Susanne, Kate, Rose and Eljar. It was a great week. Some of the highlights of the trip were; drinking Tanduay which is a Pilipino rum that is bootlegged into Malaysia, going to a local wedding and being asked to dance on stage with the natives, drinking out on the docks and ...

... transportation, Mabul's Home Stay, meals, fin and mask. Minimum 2 persons. The activities including to Sipadan, &amp; Mabul Island. One night extra only Rm60. For visiting other nearest islands.<br ...

... one of the top diving sites in the world). We also decide on a bit of a whim to have our hair rebonded, i.e. permanently straightened, so we both have good hair and we are very pleased with our new camera purchase. What was not pleasing was when we saw a cat literally fall out of the sky and land on the pavement in front of us. It was very bizarre, but at least it survived and didn't sem to have any broken bones although we couldn't ...

... and Jasna had booked a days diving a couple of weeks ago, and then went out into the jungle where they met us. Unfortunately, Jasna didn't enjoy her last couple of dives, took a little bit of a panic attack and so didn't want to go again. Fortunately for me, I was ready to take her place. :)<br><br>The island itself is about an hour and a half from the mainland by speedboat. It was squeaky bum time when Rok and I ...

The original plan was to go to Turtle Island and see, yeah you guessed it, turtles. This place is real Discovery Channel stuff, with the turtle coming on shore and laying eggs, then the little buggers hatch and make a run for the sea before being eaten by who knows what. Although these wee baby turtles don't have to worry about predators, just the mass of Japanese tourists taking photographs and using their flash when they ...

After my boring night stuck in Semporna i met up with the couple i met<br>on the mountain and we caught an early speed boat across to Mabul<br>island. I'd never heard of this place before so i was just kind of<br>tagging along but it proved to be a really good choice. The island was<br>really tiny, probably less than a kilometer across and about an hour<br>from the mainland. We stayed at a really cheap place that was kind of<br>like a resort for backpackers. The place was ...

So I flew from Kuala Lumpur to this island called Borneo which is just off the mainland of Malaysia... the purpose? to go scuba diving in this place called Sipidan which is supposed to be the best in the world and is now being nominated to be elected as one of the 7 natural wonders of the world... The allure? miles and miles of coral reef dipping down to a seemingly endless bottom of a monstrous 600 meters. As divers are only going to a depth of about 30 meters, this seems ...

After arriving in Sandakan it seemed that there wasn't much do in the immediate area. This suited me fine so I just chilled out the following day and watched DVD's in the hotel run by a VERY VERY angry Chinese Man. It was quite a good backpacker place with superb air conditioning (I think I felt cold for the first time since going over the Cho La pass in Nepal about a month ago) and plasma TV's in the bedrooms.<br><br>Having spoken to a few other people who had been ...