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Reasons To
Visit Borneo

  • Diving & snorkelling

    Simply grab your snorkelling gear and jump in to the warm turquoise waters awash with life! Coral reefs, turtles and brightly coloured fish can be seen all over the east coast. For keener divers, several islands off the east coast are considered amongst the world's best locations.

    Diving & snorkelling

  • Indigenous peoples

    The times of headhunting in Borneo are behind us now but even up until the 1960's this was common practice in the interior of the country. Today you can still visit the riverside tribal longhouses and enjoy a glass of rice wine with the elders of the village.

    Indigenous peoples

  • Orang-utan

    Critically endangered, orang-utan are now found on only two islands in the world, Borneo being one of them. There are three main areas where you can see these fantastic creatures: the Kinabatangan River, the Danum Valley and the Tabin Wildlife Reserve.

    Orang-utan

  • Trekking

    Climbing Mount Kinabalu, the highest peak in Southeast Asia, is top of many people's list when they come to Borneo. The five day Headhunters Trail takes you through longhouses and forest camps. In Maliau Basin you can experience a unique Lost World rarely visited by anyone other than researchers. In Danum Valley you can explore the jungle on the look out for wildlife.

    Trekking

  • Wildlife

    Taking a boat through the jungles of Borneo gives you an amazing opportunity for a close-up view of pygmy elephants, proboscis monkey, crocodile and dozens of bird species, such as native hornbills. If you prefer to explore by land then you can trek through pristine rainforests on the look out for monkeys swinging through the trees - and of course there are orang-utan.

    Wildlife

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Accommodation in Borneo: Kapalai Island Resort

The resort is a 'water village' and is built on a sand bar located only a 15 minute boat ride from Sipadan. This is a fantastic option for keen divers but not so suitable for non-divers.

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Our Rating: Medium

Kapalai Island Resort

Kapalai Island

  • Air Conditioning

  • Childrens Club

  • Dive School

  • Spa Facilities

  • Watersports

  • Golf Course Onsite

  • Golf Course Nearby

  • Tennis Courts

  • Internet Access

  • Pools

  • Rooms (40)

  • Restaurants (1)

Kapalai Island Resort is centred around an open restaurant, sundeck, and dive centre and offers tastefully decorated, spacious stilted chalets with large bathrooms and balconies looking out over the seemingly endless turquoise waters of the Celebes Sea.

All rooms are fan cooled and have a refrigerator as well as tea and coffee making facilities. Although there is no air conditioning the large windows can be left open to allow sea breezes to cool the chalets naturally. There are no insects as the resort is built entirely over the sea and the rooms are certainly the most comfortable of Borneo's dive island properties.

The resort is a 'water village' and is built on a sand bar located only a 15 minute boat ride from Sipadan. The accommodation comes with full board meals served in the friendly open-air restaurant and there is now internet access available (wi-fi at RM 35 per day or RM 20 for 30 minutes in the office).

The resort makes every effort to be 'eco-friendly' and has a hydroponic water purification which ensures that no waste goes into the sea.

Diving

If you are planning on diving it is worth bearing in mind that there is no guarantee you will dive any of the 12 dive sites of Sipadan. To protect the site there are only 120 dive permits issued per day and especially during the peak summer season there are significantly more people staying on the surrounding islands, and Semporna on the mainland, than permits available.

If you prebook on a dive package you will be registered and entered on to a list for a Sipadan permit. If you just book accommodation and 'pay per dive' when you are there you will not be registered for a permit and so will not be able to dive Sipadan.

In our experience if you are booked on the dive package you will normally dive Sipadan one of every three days and have your first two dives of the day at Sipadan and the final dive will in Mabul. This however, is not guaranteed.

If you do not dive at Sipadan you will be taken to alternative sites such as Si Amil, Mataking, Kapalai or Mabul. For non-divers, snorkelling trips run daily around all sites apart from Sipadan.

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