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38 Gorgeous Photos To Prove That Sabah Is Truly A Rare Gem Of Southeast Asia

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Proboscis monkey!!

Our partner organises for our guests a tour to watch proboscis monkeys and fireflies. The tour includes: minibus transportation to a jetty on the river (about 1.5-2 hours trip), boat trip along the river to find and watch monkeys, dinner and refreshments, minibus transfer to another place, second boat trip to see fireflies, return back to the resort. RM190 for adults and RM143 for kids (GST not inclusive). If you have your own car and drive there yourself then it costs RM50 only for adult (children price will be announced later). We went there ourselves to check and yes, we saw monkeys! 🙂 See come pictures below

Birds watching

Lesser Frigatebirds over the Sea

Many people already mentioned in their reviews that they like to see Egrets walking in the resort, Eagles and Frigatebirds gliding in the sky, wake up in the morning with amazing birds singing. Recently we had guests from Denmark who are enthusiasts of birds watching. They spotted and identified 25 species of birds in our place, made a list and kindly shared it with us. Thank you!

North Borneo Biostation

bird list 9-13/01/2016

by ALAN PHIPPS

1.Black-nest Swiftlet

2.Lesser Frigatebird

3.White-breasted Woodswallow

4.Pacific Swallow

5.Intermediate Egret

6.Large-tailed Nightjar

7.Eurasian Tree Sparrow

8.Asian Glossy Starling

9.Oriental Magpie Robin

10.Common Sandpiper

11.Zebra Dove

12.White-brested Waterhen

13.White-bellied Sea Eagle

14.Yellow-vented Bulbul

15.White-collared Kingfisher

16.Olive-backed Sunbird

17.Red-eyed Bulbul

18.Spotted-necked Dove

19.Common Iora

20.Cattle Egret

21.Dusky Munia

22.Pied Triller

23.Lesser Councal

24.Chestnut Munia

25.German’s Swiftlet

UMS researchers in North Borneo Biostation

Recently we enjoyed a visit of PhD student Yoong Soon Yong from University Malaysia Sabah. He was diving in our nearby reefs to collect samples of sponges and soft corals for a very interesting metabolomics study of marine invertebrates chemical compound (UMS Metabolomics Research Team). This work might have promising applications in new pharmacological substances including those for cancer treatment.

Sponge (photo by Y.S.Yong)

Yoong Soon Yong with our PADI instructor Manel Andrade

Soft coral (photo by Y.S.Yong)

One of our recent snorkeling trips to islands

New videos

We added a couple of new videos to our youtube channel. The story of released captive Pangolin (turn Captions ON)

And dolphins not far from our place

Tip Of Borneo

Our potential guests often ask how far is Resort from Tip of Borneo. It is about 30km drive from us, some of our guests even go there by bicycles. Below is a map of attractions by TripAdvisor

Boat trips to islands 2 (to be continued)

One of the big islands named Balambangan has many karst caves. One of them we visited on several occasions and already brought some of our guests there. It is really, really stunning cave! Photos below can not express your feelings and impression….but, anyway, give you just a small hint of what you may anticipate

Diving!!

We started PADI courses and fun diving – see our Diving page

Boat trips to islands 1 (to be continued)

We started boat trips to numerous beautiful islands, which make huge archipelago in front of us. We go there for diving, snorkelling, fishing and even caves visiting. Here we start publishing some photos and videos about these tours.

Molleangan kecil – beautiful uninhabited island, quite good for diving and snorkelling and perfect place for the lunch between dives. White sand, clear water, very rich and diverse corals near the shore, drop off down to sandy bottom at 13-16m with lovely coral patches. Very nice and relaxing drift dive!