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Email Come to Johor's Sibu Island Resort in Johor, Malaysia and you will get that Aloha welcome. Next, picture yourself on Fantasy Island. Yes, imagine Mr Roarke, the mysterious owner of the fantasy island, where for a price, people could come to realise their lifelong fantasies.
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Email It may have a diversity of coral species comparable to any other locations in the world, but not many people know this secret of Miri outside of Sarawak. The soft and hard corals are pristine and undamaged, unlike those found in many locations in the country. ,Some of the popular sites include Eve's Garden, Anemone Garden, Batu Belais and Siwa Reef.
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Email Penang is taking steps to unveil "new products" to woo visitors. Local travel agents are now focussing on more creative packages as they can no longer rely on attractions like Penang Hill, Butterfly Park, Snake Temple, Kek Lok Si Temple, Botanical Garden and Pulau Aman to bring in tourists, 60 percent of whom are foreigners.
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Email The Perlis State Park bordering the Thaleban National Park in southern Thailand, boasts of rare plant species like wild ginger, the balsam tree as well as a pre-historic plant species called "bogak". The park is also home to many wild animals, such as leopards and serows (or mountain goats), along with various types of reptiles and more than 200 species of birds, including the hornbill.
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Email For a unique National Park Vacation in Borneo, you must make sure that you drop by at the lesser known Mesilau Nature Park, which is just about 30 minutes by road away from Kinabalu National Park. From Kota Kinabalu, the capital of Sabah, Malaysia Borneo, it only takes approximately 2.5 hour drive to reach Mesilau Nature Park.
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Email Sarawak is one of Malaysian states that is on the Borneo island. It is a fasnating destination, nicknamed Bumi Kenyalang which literally means "Land of the Hornbill". Here are 10 things you ought to try when you're in Kuching, state capital of Sarawak.
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Email People have been experiencing the wonders of Mulu for many years as the 52,864-hectare park's established show caves such as the Deer Cave, Lang Cave, Clearwater and Wind Cave allow visitors to enjoy an interpretative tour of the caves. In fact as one of the only 138 listed natural heritage properties in the world, Mulu is described by UNESCO as the most studied tropical karst area of exceptional natural beauty and aesthetic importance.
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Email Every day scores of people from around the world make a smooth climb up Mount Kinabalu, southeast Asia's highest peak, to watch a spectacular sunrise over the rainforest island of Borneo. Legend has it that a dragon guards the entrance to Low's Gully beneath the summit. Tribal people believe the gully is the resting place of the souls of their dead.
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Email Dubbed as "A Gateway to a Land of Legends," Batang Ai Resort is a four-to- five-hour drive from here along the Pan-Borneo Highway, followed by a 15-minute boat ride on the Batang Ai Lake in Lubok Antu, Sri Aman division. Along the journey, one could see pepper gardens, rice fields, cocoa trees, oil palm estates and vegetable plots.
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Email The mangosteen fruit - alternatively known as the King or Queen of Fruits - is seed-bearing and multi-segmented. The number of segments varies from 5 to 7, with the largest invariably holding the seed. It is a round, tennis ball-size fruit that has a purple outer rind and a soft, milky white edible center.
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