#Parapat water village Travel Recommendations for 2024 (Updated in Jun)
Enjoy the beautiful beaches
Clear sea water and rich underwater world•Semporna.
✨✨✨Semporna, a place where people linger and forget to return! This sea area has picturesque scenery, which is a paradise for diving enthusiasts. Here, you will have a close encounter with the ocean and feel the magic of nature.💖💖💖
📍Detailed address: Semporna, Semporna - Parapa Water House, Malaysia
🚉Travel strategy:
🛬Plane: First fly to Kuala Lumpur, then transfer to Tawau Airport, and then transfer to other transportation to Semporna.
🚕Taxi: You can take a taxi directly to Semporna at the airport, which is convenient and fast.
Accommodation
1. Town hotel: Located in the center of Semporna town, about 220 ringgit per night, with a super large quiet balcony, affordable shuttle service, complete surrounding facilities, and convenient transportation.
2. Kapalai Water House: A wooden house built on the water, you can see the endless sea when you open the door, making you feel like you are in a fairyland. About 3580 ringgit per person, including airport pick-up, boat tickets, accommodation, 360-degree sea view restaurant buffet three meals and afternoon tea.
📌Recommended attractions:
Sipadan: 36 kilometers away from Semporna Port, it is one of the world's top diving paradises. Here you can see the deep blue deep sea that falls vertically more than 600 meters deep, and there are many underwater fish to watch, which is a must-visit place for diving enthusiasts.
Kapalai Island: This is a private small island with clear water and white and delicate beaches. There are also a variety of water activities waiting for you to experience.
Semporna Town: You can visit local historical buildings and cultural attractions in the town and feel the local customs.
Mabul Island: There are various water houses on the island, where you can enjoy the invincible sea view.
🍜Recommended food:
Creamy tiger prawns, salted egg yolk crabs, coconut cream fried shrimp, salt and pepper pipi shrimp and other local specialties, pipi shrimp are very large, and Malaysian fried noodles are also a must-try dish.
Semporna travel heart quiet:
Semporna is suitable for travel all year round. The best season for diving is from March to October every year. The visibility of the ocean is best in April and May. In addition, Semporna is close to the world-class diving spot-Sipadan, the surrounding sea islands have super beautiful water quality, and there are also the last sea nomads-the Bajau, and the rare sea houses, with a 360-degree sea view.
🌈🌈🌈Come to Semporna, meet the beautiful ocean and charming scenery!🌊🌊🌊
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Loudly recommending to everyone | Semporna, a paradise on earth
| Semporna, a paradise on earth. Semporna in Malaysia is truly like a paradise on earth, with its sea and water houses indescribably beautiful. Here comes the travel guide
The most beautiful water house on Mabul Island, it really feels even more beautiful than what you see in the pictures after experiencing it.
1️⃣How to get to Mabul Island
Stay at a hotel on Mabul Island (about 3,000 per person per night) or most commonly join a day tour, which can be booked on Ctrip, and it includes snorkeling,
the prices are more or less the same
2️⃣Getting on the island
It takes about 1 hour from Semporna pier to Mabul Island, and each person is charged an additional 30RM to get on the island
3️⃣Photo spots and techniques (suggested to save, suggested to save)
✅The entrance from the speedboat to the island is a good choice to take pictures of Bajau children, as shown in pictures 3 and 4, you can include flowers in the shot, and if the light is good you can also capture the reflection of their boats, ignore my poor photography
✅The simplest and most direct excellent method, find the guide from your own group, they are very willing to help you take pictures, many people don't know this, and they don't charge, they know all the best photo spots, poses, techniques, and will use flower petals and water as the foreground, see picture 10 for our day tour guide, pictures 2 and 6 are taken by him, and he can make your legs look long
4️⃣Precautions
👍The Bajau children on Mabul Island are quite friendly, their coconuts are 5RM for a large one, of course, you can also bargain for 10RM for three small ones
❤️Other
📝The day tour on Mabul Island is not like deep diving which is all young people, because it's about seeing the water houses, so it's suitable for all ages, there will be many elderly and children too
📝Only after arriving in Semporna did I realize that there are very few European and American tourists here, it's mostly Chinese, so the island is also full of our compatriots, and Mandarin will get you around