Northern Coast and Islands
Sipadan Mabul Resort
The resort has excellent cabins with private facilities, ample fresh water, air-conditioning and verandas. There is a good beach, swimming pool, restaurant and a bar beautifully located at the end of the pier – an excellent location from which to watch the sunset.
The diving around Mabul itself is excellent and is particularly renowned for muck diving and a profusion of macro species. However, the main attraction for divers is the world-renowned island of Sipadan with its large population of sea turtles, fabulous coral gardens and large shoals of pelagic fish.
Facilities
PADI dive school offering video services and PADI dive courses including Nitrox and rebreather diving, restaurant, lounge, bar, private facilities with hot water showers, and veranda.
Local Wildlife
Highlights include: frogfish, pipefish, fire gobies, mandarin fish, crocodile fish, flamboyant cuttlefish, ghost pipefish, many species of nudibranch, shrimp, sea urchins, crabs and lobsters.
Optional Activities
Diving and snorkelling.
Jonathan Morris
Area Specialist
Permits for diving on Sipadan are strictly limited and are only allocated to those booking a full dive package. Even then, it is best to book early.
If you have any questions regarding our Borneo tours, please feel free to contact me on +44 (0)1803 866965
Very helpful – we went to all the right places, well-designed tour. [Wildlife highlights included:] Orang-utans, gibbons, seeing wildlife unit filming, 5m reticulated python, storm stalks, hornbills, kingfishers, green turtles egg-laying, birdsnest soup caves (but not the cockroaches!), monitor lizards, leopard cats, slow loris, binturong, mouse deer + other deer, fruit bats, black squirrels, some pretty nasty other snakes, flying fish, Borneo pigmy elephants, proboscis monkeys, macaques, otter etc.