Sabah

Poring Hot Spring

Located at the lower altitude of the Kinabalu Park, and at the eastern end, Poring is famous for its hot spring. Soaking at the Japanese style bath tubs are the most popular activites here. Many claim that the sulphur enriched mineral water is very good for the skin. The canopy walk about 20 minutes away from the bathing area is also very popular with the tourists. Where walking at 40 metres up on the trees top, visitors get to experience life at the canopy of this dense forest. Also very popular at Poring Hot Spring is the Butterflies farm.

Pulau Tiga

Pulau Tiga is made famous by the popular reality show survivor, the venus was chosen for its unique feature of wilderness and couple with beautiful beaches. There is only one resort at Pulau Tiga, which also arrange the boat ride to the island. Volcano mug bath is one of the most interesting thing to do here, while snorkelling and scuba dive are also popular.

Scuba Diving

Sabah is the scuba diving paradise of south east Asia. There are so many dive sites and islands to choose from and one can spent months to finish all these sites. With the tropical climate of Malaysia, which mean summer all year round, scuba diving is a year round activities.

Sipadan and Mabul

Mention about scuba diving, Sipadan and Mabul easily top the list in Malaysia. Sipadan Island is famous for its wide variety of fish and turtles. The corals at Sipadan is equally stunning. Since 2005 resorts are no longer allow to operated in Sipadan Island for conservation purpose; many resorts had moved and set up base at Mabul, which is only 30 minutes from Sipadan Island. Mabul Island is speacilised in marco diving, many small creatures like nudi branch, frogfish, and also home to the famous mandarin dargon fish.

Mataking and Kapalai

About 40 minutes from Semporna by boat, one reach this tiny island called Mataking. Wall diving is the main feature at Mataking Island, and like Mabul, Mataking island is also very popular with marco diving, sea creature like nudibranch and frogfish.

Kapalai is not an island, but a reef that is submerge by the sea most of the time. The Kapalai resort is built on top of the reef, and one cannot but wonder at this beautiful site, where the Kapalai Resort comes out from no way and appear in the middle of the sea. Resort guess can just jump out from the resort and start descending to the ocean floor.