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October 11th 2009

Published: October 28th 2009

We hadn't heard of the islands Sipadan & Mabul when we were in the UK planning our trip but as you venture out to this part of the world then you will often be asked the question "so have you dived at Sipadan?" The reason for this is that Sipadan has been voted one of the world's best dive spots and is famous for it's huge limestone drop off that is crowned by the island itself. Here in this are... Read Full Entry

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Sophie & Dale

Sophie and Dale

Back in 2008 we took 21 months off work, rented out the house, found a foster home for Stuart (cat!) and ventured out to the big wide world. We saw as many places as we could fit in in the time we were on the road and returned home in February 2010 after a truly life changing and eye opening journey. Our adventure lasted... 615 days! After our return we fell into the routine of life back in the UK but have always planned to get back out there as soon as we could. It took a bit longer than we'd hoped but we did squeeze in getting married and a few holidays ... full info

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28th October 2009

Paul
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Another great blog entry, I've been looking at your previous blogs and its such a similar trip to our year away about two years back. I miss chilling on deserted beaches and only having to worry about what meal to have next and meeting new people and seeing new places, keep enjoying you lucky kids : ) paul-and-emma@travelblog.org

2nd November 2009

serina
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:)
I'm glad that you guys enjoyed yourself. I just wanted to point out something. "Access to Sipadan and the other islands in the area is via Semporna, a very rough around the edges town on the South East side of Sabah state in Malaysian Borneo" The fact is - there is no such thing as Malaysian Borneo. Sabah is a state in Malaysia. A lot of people get confused with this. Just wanted to straighten things out. :)

7th November 2009

Sophie and Dale
Sophie & Dale

Thanks!
Thanks for the correction Serina! :o)

15th November 2009

Hau
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love this blog, i am from Penisular Malaysia and never have a change to visit Borneo. Plan to take my first scuba license during this coming 2010 over there, i got to do it before 2012! LOL Been hearing that it is deep down under sipadan that only advance water scuba license can enjoy the wonderful of the dive site, is that true?

16th November 2009

Sophie and Dale
Sophie & Dale

Sipadan
Hi Hau Glad you enjoyed the blog, you will enjoy Borneo so much, very different from Peninsular Malaysia but just as good! It's not true that only advanced divers can go to Spiadan so don't worry... you can just snorkel there if you want to! Some of the dive sites like the turtle cave are for advanced divers only as it's in a cave so obviously has many risks but you can dive many of the other sites with open water no problem. Have an excellent time when you go it's a beautiful place.

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