Diving Kota Kinabalu - Snorkeling Trip Tour At TARP

Diving Kota Kinabalu - Snorkeling Trip Tour At TARP | TARP is the short name for Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park. This is the official name of Kota Kinabalu Marine Park as many local people called it as 'TARP'. While doing diving Kota Kinabalu, you can also do snorkeling trip tour either guided snorkeling or unguided snorkeling.

Diving Kota Kinabalu - Relaxing Day At Mantanani Island

Diving Kota Kinabalu - Relaxing Day At Mantanani Island | Apart from diving Kota Kinabalu, you can also enjoy scuba diving at Mantanani island, a beautiful remote island outside the skirt of Kota Kinabalu city. It takes two hours drive by bus to reach Mantanani island. This exotic island is famous for it's crytal clear sea water.

Diving Kota Kinabalu - Enjoy Snorkeling At Mantanani

Diving Kota Kinabalu - Enjoy Snorkeling At Mantanani Island. This photo was taken at Mantanani Island. The exact locaiton is at Mantanani Besar. The biggest island among them all. 

Diving Kota Kinabalu - Diverse Borneo Equipment Room

Diving Kota Kinabalu - Diverse Borneo Equipment Room | This is Diverse Borneo's equipment room at Jesselton Point Kota Kinabalu Sabah. This room used to try dive equipments before going out to the island for scuba diving activities at Kota Kinabalu marine park.

Diving Kota Kinabalu - Daily Dive Trip

Diving Kota Kinabalu - Daily Dive Trip | Snapshot of leisure scuba divers during daily diving trips to Kota Kinabalu marine park, or called as Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park. Diving Kota Kinabalu is easy with Diverse Borneo, because this dive center offers the lowest price with good customer service.

Jesselton Point

Jesselton Point is the name of ferry and jetty terminal at Kota Kinabalu city center. It is located next to the Royal Custom Department office and Cock & Bull bar. You can spot Jesselton Point easily because it is close to Grandis Hotel, Suria Sabah shopping mall, Bank Muamalat building also close to several seafood resturants. When you want to do diving Kota Kinabalu, you will depart to the dive sites and to the island from Jesselton Point.

29th Mt. Kinabalu International Climbathon Adventure 2016

29th Mt. Kinabalu International Climbathon Adventure will be held on 16 October 2016 at Kinabalu Park. While casual climbers may take an average of two days to scale the mountain, professional mountain runners can clock as fast as 4 hours! This is a big tourism event in Sabah and it is also the biggest international climbathon in Malaysia!

The Best Thing About Diving Is A Buddy

Diving Kota Kinabalu - The Best Thing About Diving Is A Buddy | Sometimes, in an uncertain world, it’s the small things that can make a real difference.Something like reaching out and making a new friend, or simply saying “thanks” to an old one.

And there’s nothing quite like a shared passion for diving as the basis of a friendship. Scuba diving is a great leveler; rich or poor, young or old it’s all the same on the dive boat or underwater. Cultural differences fade as buddies team up to plan dives and divers come together to share the subsequent sea stories.

There’s always something to share because there’s a lot to love about diving: finning over fantastical coral reefs, drifting over the edges of dramatic drop offs, wondering what lies below on ancient wrecks. But perhaps the best thing of all is sharing the adventure with a buddy.

Diving Kota Kinabalu - Best Place To Find Dive Shop And Dive Operators

Diving Kota Kinabalu - Best Place To Find Dive Shop And Dive Operators | If you just arrive at Kota Kinabalu and looking for diving kota kinabalu package, the best place to find good dive shop and good dive operators is at Wisma Sabah.

Dive Centers And Dive Shops Kota Kinabalu

There are more than 3 dive operators there. You can find Excel Dive, Scuba Junkie, Borneo Dream, Diverse Borneo and Sentai. Borneo Dream sells essential dive equipments in good price. Most of them were PADI affiliated dive operators. If you hold PADI scuba diving license you can find many dive trips easily with them at Kota Kinabalu.

Diving Kota Kinabalu - Scuba Junkie

Diving Kota Kinabalu - Scuba Junkie. This is one of the popular dive operator in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. When you searching about diving Kota Kinabalu you will found several dive operators and one of them is Scuba Junkie. This scuba diving company has several branch around Sabah. One of them is at Semporna. Scuba Junkie Kota Kinabalu main office is at Wisma Sabah.

PADI Open Water Course

PADI Open Water course is available at Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia. If you want to get your own scuba diving license, you must take this course. PADI is the most recognizable diving recognition around the world. When you become licensed PADI Open Water scuba diver you can dive around the world without hassle, including taking leisure dive package for your diving Kota Kinabalu activity.

Snorkeling Kota Kinabalu

Snorkeling Kota Kinabalu is also a popular activity among tourist that come to the city for vacation with family and friends. If they don't want to do scuba diving, they can do snorkeling.

Snorkeling Packages

Snorkeling packages that available at Kota Kinabalu are guided snorkeling and unguided snorkeling. Guided snorkeling package is for strong swimmer and free divers who love to explore under close guidance of local divemaster or experienced snorkeler.

Unguided snorkeling mostly done at confined sea water area at islands in Kota Kinabalu marine park or well known as Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park. For example, if you want to do unguided snorkeling at Sapi island, you can buy snorkeling package at local dive shop and then they will bring you to the island which is just 15 minutes from the jetty, named Jesselton Point Jetty and ferry terminal.

Unguided snorkeling is famous among Chinese and Korean tourists because they came to Kota Kinabalu in a large group consists of 30 to 40 peoples. Most of them do snorkeling from the beach. Snorkel, dive mask and life jacket is provided.

Lunch On Snorkeling Days

When you take guided snorkeling package Kota Kinabalu, the company usually provide lunch for you and your companion. Lunch menu usually Malay and Malaysian menu, most of them local menu such as nasi goreng (fried rice), mee goreng (fried noodle) and other foods.

When you decide to do unguided snorkeling, you have to buy your own lunch. When you do snorkeling at islands in Kota Kinabalu marine park such as Sapi island, Manukan island or Mamutik island, you buy ala carte lunch at nearby cafe managed by Sabah Parks. 

Diving Kota Kinabalu

Diving Kota Kinabalu is the activity we have been want to do for a long time. We saved our money for our travel trip and then finally reach Kota Kinabalu for our dream activity. From what we read, Kota Kinabalu marine park is rich with diverse macro marine wildlife. When doing scuba diving Kota Kinabalu, we will have a chance to see cute nudibranchs, turtles and sometime when you have a chance you will encounter whale shark during early March to early May each year. Diving Kota Kinabalu will never upset you.