So in the first part of this trip I wrote about getting to Pom Pom, our experience there, the food, the resort and so on. But obviously we went there for diving! So how was SCUBA diving at Pom Pom island? I didn’t have the best start, gearing up for the first dive..my BCD back […]
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Visiting Celebes Beach Resort at Pom Pom Island, Sabah – Malaysia
So we found out about this place called Pom Pom Island last year at MIDE (Malaysian International Dive Expo), I’d honestly never heard of it before and couldn’t even point to a region on the map where I thought it might be. It turns out, it’s in Sabah, about 30 mins boat road from Semporna, […]
Pom Pom Island – Sabah, Malaysia
What an amazing place! Pretty sure I’ll write about this trip (for once) because I had such a GOOD time! Truly a paradise, crystal clear turquoise waters, amazing diving, great company, breathtaking sunsets – brilliant! More soon.
Kundasang War Memorial & Market – Sabah
As we were staying in Kundasang we had some time to look around, our first stop was the famous Kundasang War Memorial, which to quote: Established in 1962, this was one of the first memorials to commemorate the brave Australian and British Prisoners of War who died in Sandakan and during the infamous death marches […]
Jackie – The Semi Wild Orangutan From Kinabalu Park
So our guide let us know of a semi-wild Orangutan named Jackie that lived somewhere in Kinabalu park. Most of the time she stayed in the jungle, but she did enjoy human contact and came out now and then to see who was around. Our guide was friendly with the people who stayed around the […]
Kota Kinabalu (KK) National Park & Poring Treetop Canopy Walkway
After our adventures at the Monsopiad Cultural Village we headed back to KK city to stay overnight at Hotel Shangri La. We had a free and easy night so we asked the guide and some others where we could get some good seafood, we should have Googled it first of course but we didn’t have […]
Sandakan Town Tour – St. Michael’s and All Angels Church, Fishing Village
So after our trip to the picturesque Puu Jih Shih Temple in Sandakan we checked out the rest of the town. We visited a church which is part of the heritage trail called St. Michael’s and All Angels Church. A quaint little church finished in the early 1900s, it reminds of those little village churches […]
Puu Jih Shih Temple, Sandakan
It’s been a while since my last post about Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary — Sabah, Malaysia, and I’ve got some other travel stuff coming up so I better finish this series off! We headed off to Sandakan after that and had lunch at the Ocean King Seafood restaurant, despite it being touted as a tourist […]
Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary – Sabah, Malaysia
It’s been a while since my last Sabah post (Sepilok Jungle Resort – Checking in And Relaxing & Review), but seen as though I went recently it’s spurned me to continue. Sepilok Orang Utan Sanctuary is somewhere everyone should visit at some point in their life, people come from all over the World to see […]
2008 – The Year That Was..Let Us Welcome 2009
Well it’s that day again – December 31st! Time to usher in a new year and bid farewell to the year that has gone by. It’s been quite a year for me, good and bad – ups and downs. In all honestly it’s not been a great year, especially the latter half. I’m fully hopeful […]
