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Here comes the four-day and three-night travelogue of the diving paradise Semporna!

Finally got time to write about Semporna h h A paradise for diving enthusiasts, it's really beautiful! 🏝 The Mabul Island Resort is very photogenic, 📷 most of the photos are taken there~ Let's talk about transportation, from Guangzhou to Kota Kinabalu by plane ✈️ then transfer to Tawau. The airfare is about 1K+ per person, and after leaving Tawau airport, we booked a water bungalow's shuttle service. Directly to the pier to take a boat to the water bungalow 🏠 The water bungalows 🏠 in the resort are generally quite expensive, we chose one called COCO, which has a reasonable cost-performance ratio. Experienced a day's stay in the water bungalow. The first day was spent taking pictures at the bungalow, playing in the water, and admiring the glassy sea 🌊 The second day we stayed in a sea view room in the town, which also had a good cost-performance ratio. But the town's environment is relatively dirty and messy, be sure to refuse the help from the little black kids at the pier with luggage, because they will ask you for a tip, and if you give one, a swarm of kids will rush up asking for money 😓, it is said that they use it to sniff some kind of glue called du 😷... Speaking of food, in Semporna you can indulge in seafood 🦞, as long as you know how to bargain, 😝 the seafood here is super cheap~ 50 for small green dragons, 200 for big lobsters, 60 for star groupers, 10 for flower crabs (in Malaysian Ringgit) eat as much as you want. There is a seafood market in the town, where the local Bajau people 👳‍♂️ come to do business and sell seafood~ Bargain down to 2-3 times the price, and after buying seafood, you can go to a nearby restaurant for processing 😋, recommend a restaurant called Shiwei, their wet cream cooking method for processing big lobsters is super delicious 👍 Finally, I recommend the fruit milk tea in the town 🥑🥭🍓 a cup for just over ten bucks is really full of fruit flesh! For activities, on the second day, we arranged a 🏝 Mabul Island hopping day trip which included morning photography on the island 📷, afternoon snorkeling 🤿, and you can also sign up for a deep dive experience. Snorkeling is 180 Malaysian Ringgit per person. Deep diving is 360. On the return trip back to Guangzhou, we saw the beautiful sunset in Kota Kinabalu 🌄, regretfully we didn't have time to eat durian 😭, the durians in Kota Kinabalu and Kuala Lumpur are super delicious~ (Don't buy the local ones in Semporna ❌, they are not tasty, a letdown) In summary, if you love diving 🤿, you really can go to Semporna (East Malaysia), if you don't dive, you can go to West Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Penang, Langkawi to check in, eat delicious food, and experience the Malaysian culture 🇲🇾🧕🏻
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Posted: May 25, 2024
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