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Background: During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Federation of Malaya, which became independent in 1957. Malaysia was formed in 1963 when the former British colonies of Singapore and the East Malaysian states of Sabah and Sarawak on the northern coast of Borneo joined the Federation. The first several years of the country's history were marred by Indonesian efforts to control Malaysia, Philippine claims to Sabah, and Singapore's secession from the Federation in 1965.

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By Caitlin10
October 19th 2009

Double Digit Divers Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Sipadan

Scuba Divers

Caitlin and I easily would have stayed longer in Kalimantan if we could have, but our 60 day visa had run out on us. So we opted for the next best thing and hopped on over to the Malaysian side of Borneo. "Hopped" is probably a poor word choice. Inter-Borneo travel, particularly on the Indonesian side, is difficult. The quickest route in the end was to take three separate flights, from Kalimantan to Jakarta, then on to Singapore and finally back to Tawau in Malaysian Borneo. Sort of a circuitous route, but the only reasonable option. Two months ago way back [View Full Entry]

By Becca22
August 30th 2009

Sipidan - wow!! Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Sipadan

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well I've done a bit of diving here now, still have a few days left but have a rest day today, and lets face it there's not a lot to do here in Sempourna when not diving apart from sleep and eat, so I'm doing both along with some travel updates :) I have now had a couple of dive days with scuba junkies (whom I am also staying with in a dorm room, the cheapest but also the best way to meet other people). The first dive day tipped down with rain and involved a boat trip out (around 1-1.5hours) [View Full Entry]

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By twotravelbugs
August 28th 2009

Sipidan Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Sipadan

False Clown Anemonefish

We only had one morning, three dives, at Sipidan. In many ways it was a disappointment, after all the hype, but also in many ways it was really impressive. What we did see, the coral, the fish, the sea life, was quite spectacular. The weather that day didn't make it an easy set of dives. The sea was pretty choppy and the currents underwater were strong in places. This didn't help with spotting the sea life, or with getting on and off the boat. Between dives, we were dropped off on Sipidan island, for a hour each break, and that wasn't [View Full Entry]

By oceaniaodyssey
August 24th 2009

Duikfoto's Sabah Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Sipadan

School horsmakrelen

Hier een aparte entry met de duikfoto's van Sipadan, Kapalai en Mabul [View Full Entry]

By Charlotte Pence
July 29th 2009

Diving in Sipadan Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Sipadan

Sharky Shark

I'm behind on this travel blog, but I'll catch up soon. A couple of weeks ago we went to Sipadan--which is one of the top ten places in the world to dive—according to the scuba powers-that-be who determine this stuff. And the diving there IS amazing, partly for its variety and partly for the amount of stuff passing before us at any moment. So many sharks swam by I started looking around for some sea slugs to see something different. What also made this part of our trip so wonderful is that we stayed on an old oil derrick for four [View Full Entry]

By PA Leslie
July 12th 2009

Sipadan Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Sipadan

only 60 "rooms"...all of them overwater!

Dives and cuddles in Sipadan, welcome to Kapalai resort! I've dived in many places in the world...and quite often people come back with the same question...have you dived Sipadan? Up to now, the answer was always...not yet. So now it's done, we just spent 4 nights at the Kapalai Sipadan resort. In terms of diving, Galapagos, Palau and Tubbataha are still way ahead for me, but Sipadan do come in fourth on my list of places I've dived. We stay at the Kapalai resort...and this is an out-of-this-world diving resort. The staff were amazing, you are taken care so well it's [View Full Entry]

By J Silberg
June 28th 2009

Diving in Borneo Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Sipadan

The Journey around Borneo So we flew from Kuala Lumpur into the city of Sandakan of the far east coast of the province of Sabah in the Malaysian part of Borneo. We had nothing finalized but knew that we wanted to do two main things in our week here, dive and mountain climb. Things began to fall serenditously into place and we headed first for the south coast of Sabah and the world famous dive destination called Sipadan. A short taxi ride took us to the long-distance bus stop in Sandakan so we could catch a bus to Semporna, the main [View Full Entry]

By LivingTheDream
June 25th 2009

Diving with massive turtles and sharks (Sipadan, Borneo, Malaysia) Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Sipadan

Beautiful Mabul Island

(Day 447 on the road) From Brunei, we decided to take the overland (read: hitchhikers) route to Kota Kinabalu, or KK as everyone calls it, in Malaysia's eastern Sabah province. This turned out to be a little more complicated than anticipated and involved a total of seven different cars (and more than six hours on the road), all taking us a little further towards our destination. Still, as always in Malaysia, hitching was easy enough and we never had to wait longer than a few minutes for a car to stop. Plus we were riding with a few real characters again, [View Full Entry]

Me struggling a bit with my fins before the dive

By LeighSwenson
June 25th 2009

"What do you mean there's crocodiles in the channel?"... Night Diving in Borneo Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Sipadan

Flamboyant Cuttlefish

The boat made its way down the channel in the inky darkness toward the site we would be visiting for our night dive. We had already had our briefing while at the shop getting kitted up. As we near our location our dive guide Rory scratches his head, turns to us and says “Now that we are on the boat there is just one more thing I should mention...there have been crocodiles sighted while night diving in the channel. It’s best not to flap around on the surface, just go straight down.” Heidi enquired as to whether she might take a [View Full Entry]

By bliss1260
June 11th 2009

Awesome Diving Asia » Malaysia » Sabah » Sipadan

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Used Dive Junkie and stayed at Mabul which was a lot nicer than staying in Semporna. The dive at Barracudda Point was amazing; over 1000 Jack fish, over 500 Barraccuda, 10+ White tip sharks, one grey reef shark, couple big sea turtles. That was the best dive of my life so far. [View Full Entry]

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