Hotel: Seafest Hotel
Price: $ 30 USD/night inclusive of breakfast for 2
Duration: 6 days/5 nights
Transportation: Walking 5 mins. to Scuba Junkie, then diving!
Kaes and I took a trip to the islands of Mabul, Sipadan, and Kepalai to dive and get our Advanced Open Water Dive Certification. Sipadan is one of the top dive destinations in the world.
Sipadan is the only oceanic island in Malaysia, rising 2,000 feet or 600m from the seabed. It is located in the Celebes Sea east of the major town of Tawau and off the coast of East Malaysia on the Island of Borneo. It was formed by living corals growing on top of an extinct volcanic cone that took thousands of years to develop. Sipadan is located at the heart of the Indo-Pacific basin, the centre of one of the richest marine habitats in the world. More than 3,000 species of fish and hundreds of coral species have been classified in this ecosystem.
Normally rare diving scenes are frequently seen in the waters around Sipadan: schools of greenback turtles and hawksbill turtles nesting and mating, schools of barracuda & big-eye trevally in tornado-like formations, pelagic species such as manta rays, eagle rays, scalloped hammerhead sharks and whale sharks.
A mysterious turtle tomb lies underneath the column of the island, formed by an underwater limestone cave with a labyrinth of tunnels and chambers that contain many skeletal remains of turtles that have become lost and drown before finding the surface.
2 comments:
It was great meeting you in Semporna, good luck with your move to Singapore!
Ok - these pictures are amazing! I would love to try diving one day! So cool!
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