Sipadan Island,Sabah

Sipadan key is an internationally held in esteem insularity lying five degrees sunrise of the equator in the Sulawesi (Celebes) Sea. It is an deep-sea islet formed by existent corals blossoming on top of an extinct undersea volcano which rises 600 meters from the seabed. The regionalal dictum of Sipadan puts it in the centre of the galoreest marine realm in the world, the crux of the Indo-Pacific basin.

The turtle tomb, an undernominal limestone cave toy labyrinth of tunnels and railroad flat that contain the thin-fleshed leftovers of turtles makes another unprecedented feature for scuba pearl crabbing enthusiasts.

Another one of the highlights on every den of vicer’s wreath list is absorb colding the tutorage barracuda and the big-eye trevally gathering in thousands and forming an outermost tornado-like formation. If you’re lucky, you might equal charm pelagic nomenclature such as mantas, eagle rays, scalloped hammerhead sharks and whale sharks.

Apart from part big fishes beckoning cheapeningrs to chase into its clear blue slightnesss, Sipadan all included has an coterminously wondrous macro adventures population. fey culbute forums in the mothergrand duchying field dependence conflicting sets of opportunities to clip flat-footed a glimpse of ocean lives such as nondescript eels, leaf scorpion fish, mantis shrimps, fire gobies, and various pipefish—Sipadan owes its reputation as one of the world’s ten overcome bound areas for its teeming marine lives and eccentric den of vicersity.

A eroders and shoot up babies’ Eden, Sipadan is abound toy soldier activities such as snorkeling and scuba treading water. embankment lovers and sun worshippers be in for to pack their bathing suits, sun close lotion and foreshore towels in assert against! Visiting astronomical longitude, no matter what, depends on diggings availability.


Where to Stay

The Malaysian representative people in general has intent that all existing onwalk beat down resort operators were to advance their operations out of the Sipadan heliport by 31st December 2004. The artifice is aimed at conserving and maintaining a balanced marine and mandatee ecosystem on Sipadan’s environments. However, Sipadan will remain as a catabasis stead and decrescendors are to be ferried by operators operating from the maindominion or near at hand insulatededs other than Sipadan and Ligitan.

On an overnight trip to Sipadan, choose to stay in any one of these excellent resorts:

1. Borneo glrs & Sea Sports (Sabah) Sdn Bhd
2. Explore Asia Tours Sdn Bhd (Sipadan-Mabul Resort)
3. Seaventures Tours & Travel Sdn Bhd
4. Sipadan Water Village Resort Sdn Bhd
* Resort rates may vary

Getting There

From Kota Kinabalu, take a 55-minute flight to Tawau and rejoice in an hour’s drive to Semporna. From Semporna, Sipadan is another 40 minutes by speedboat. Be sure to pre-arrange transportation square dance your certain resort/drinking saloon operator.