Scuba diving & snorkeling
Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park offers many snorkelling and scuba diving opportunities and is around 15 min from Kota Kinabalu by boats departing from the Jesselton Point Jetty or Sutera Harbour.
The Gaya
Wreck lies in 50m of water within the tunku abdul rahman marine park and is a 30 min boat ride from kota kinabalu, the wreck is thought to be that of the japanese ship nittetsu maru.
Dive operators include:
Borneo Dream
A boat transfer service is available to Tunku Abdul Rahman Marine Park for snorkeling or diving trips. Over 20 sites for diving and protected areas for snorkeling. Suitable for day trips. Goes to four of the main wreck dive sites on a regular basis. PADI Dive Boat, 10mx4m catamaran and a 9mx3m RIB, SDI resort dive centre, BSAC diver training centre, TDI resort dive centre and IANTD facility. Also offer SCR courses and training certified via the PADI with both a semi closed rebreather diver speciality course and closed circuit rebreather CCR training courses.
Sabah Divers
Provide PADI and SSI courses in English, Mandarin and Cantonese. Diving tours to popular dive destinations all over Borneo, such as Sipadan and Layang Layang. SSI Scuba Schools International platinum facility. Tunku Abdul Rahman fun dive packages available departing Jesselton Point Jetty including equipment, boat transfers and 2-3 dives.
Enjoy a try dive, leisure diving, technical diving, do a live-aboard dive trip or go snorkelling.
Several interesting dive sites are available as day trips from Kota Kinabalu with nearby World War 2 wrecks accessible for scuba diving, some are in the 24-45m depth range whilst other wrecks are more suitable for technical diving. Advanced and basic diver training courses are run from Kota Kinabalu by several dive centre operators.
Destinations include:
Mayne Rock
Has large white boulders rising 7m-15m and is surrounded by a coral reef.
Usukan Bay
Near pulau mantanani is suitable for recreational diving. located near the fishing port of kota belud 30 nautical miles north of kota kinabal these dive sites are suitable for day trips from kota kinabalu. boat trips north from kota kinabalu normally depart from sutera harbour or jesselton point and take approximately 2 hours. these dives are only suitable for divers that already have padi advanced open water diver or similar certification and some previous wreck diving experience would be advised. there are three popular wrecks in this site and they are spread over a distance of about one kilometre and lie 7 n.m offshore.
Palau Tiga
Offers coral reef dives.
Sensi Borneo Diving Resort & Tours
Provide scuba diving trips and PADI courses. Also operate the 796 ton, 56.6m motor yacht Orient Explorer as a live aboard and floating hotel off shore from Kota Kinabalu. Originally launched in 1943 it has a dive deck, passenger cabins including family cabins, luxury and economy cabins, a restaurant, bar, lounge and a sick bay. The dive services offer a full range of PADI scuba diving courses from open water, divemaster, technical diving and rebreather courses. Trips to the Usukan Bay wreck dives and many other dive sites are available.
Sports
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Skateboarding, Inline Skating and BMX stunts with extreme sports community group in Kota Kinabalu.
Golf Academy Borneo
Private golf lessons with British PGA-accredited professional golf tutors, short game clinics, kids golf clinics and a Junior Programmes.
Other things to do
Eat Eat Eat
Eat Eat Eat - Kota Kinablu is a cultural melting pot. Here Chinese meet Malays and Bruneis, Javanese, Filipinos and even a couple of Europeans, all of whom have brought along their own cuisine. Try out the many specialties offered at the various kedai kopi often in buffet form making it easy to order and shun fast food chains!
Shop Shop Shop
Shop Shop Shop - Lots of Shopping Centres great for picking up bargains.
Lok Kawi Wildlife Park
(http://www.lokkawiwildlif...). located near the small town of lok kawi a short distance south of kota kinabalu. it features orang-utans, proboscis monkeys, gibbons, a sumatran rhinoceros, some tigers, local deer, various birds in a large aviary, elephants, and other animals. a reptile section will be opened soon. a good alternative to visiting the nature reserves around sabah for those on a tight schedule, as well as giving you the chance to see the animals much more up close than you would in the jungle. entrance fee: rm20 for adults, rm10 for children, half-price for malaysians. it is a little difficult to get to as there is no public transportation that goes right to the park, and it is about 10 min drive outside of lok kawi and about half an hour outside of kota kinabalu. take a 17b or 17c bus to lok kawi town at rm3 a head, then a local taxi for around rm12-15 to the park. it is advisable to get the phone number of the taxi driver or arrange pickup from the park at a set time to go back to lok kawi as there are no taxis or buses at the park. alternatively pay some rm80-100 to have a taxi take you there from kota kinabalu and back.