{"id":605,"date":"2010-07-25T04:14:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-25T11:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/?p=605"},"modified":"2010-07-25T04:14:41","modified_gmt":"2010-07-25T11:14:41","slug":"sipadan-kapalai-resort-kapalai-island-malaysia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lisaandtony.com\/travelblog\/2010\/07\/25\/sipadan-kapalai-resort-kapalai-island-malaysia\/","title":{"rendered":"Sipadan-Kapalai Resort – Kapalai Island, Malaysia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Total Miles Traveled: \u00a030,384<\/p>\n

I (Lisa) have been waiting for this experience for 20 years (since I found out that such places existed)… where your bungalow is built on the ocean – with clear blue water for as far as the eye can see and where the fish swim under and around you.<\/p>\n

Kapalai Resort is built on a sandbar off of Malaysian Borneo’s east coast in the middle of the Sulawesi Sea. \u00a0It is NOT easy to get here. \u00a0From the US, you would need to take a 15 hour plane ride to Kuala Lumpur (in\u00a0peninsular\u00a0Malaysia), followed by another 2.5 hour flight to Tawau, Malaysia (on Borneo). \u00a0Once in Tawau, you take a 90 minute bus ride, followed by a 45 minute boat ride to the resort.<\/p>\n

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Within in our first few minutes of arriving in our room and looking out on our private balcony (and from the bathtub), we saw barracuda, trumpet fish, sting rays and (my favorite) sea turtles. \u00a0 But don’t let the beautiful view fool you. \u00a0This is no 5 star resort. \u00a0With no aircon and a very porous structure that lets in noises from both sea and human creatures, we felt like we were ‘glamping’. \u00a0But being woken up at 5am with the clanky clanks of the diving tanks didn’t bother us. \u00a0We were here to dive. And dive we did… 4 times a day for 3 days!<\/p>\n

Check out our slideshow from the resort (below). \u00a0Coming up next – photos from our dives.<\/p>\n

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