My Paradise in Celebes Sea 2011 - Day 1 , 4 June 2011

Really sorry for late to write a blog to share with all of you about our amazing trip to Sipadan, a truly paradise.

After meeting my friends in Kuala Lumpur, we sat off to KLIA early morning to catch our flight Air Asia to Tawau at 7:20 am and arrive Tawau in time at 10:05 am.  We shop around in the airport to get some idea of the price of T-shirt and the pattern before we got our rental car, an old Kancil.

Tawau didn't change much, in 25 minutes time we arrived downtown and drop off the car rental personnel.      We quickily set off to Sin On market to order fresh fish and prawn.  The price of Grouper is RM 16 ( increase RM1 compare with last year 2010) per kilo.  West Malaysia price is RM45 per kilo.  We bought lots of fish and a 4 kilo Grouper.  We ask the fish monger to store for us.  After shopping for more than 2 hours, we went to eat fish noodle, we are very clever, we still remember how to go to these places after a year.  The taste not that good as last year and we went to eat 猪肉包.  The shop is not open so we went to eat 波罗包，still very tasty.  Later we went to Semporna.

Sister with 4 kilo grouper 

After a long drive, we arrived Semporna and check in, its too late to go to Bukit Tengkorak ( I missed this place again), so we have a walk around the hoter, the best hotel in Semporna- Seafest Hotel.  Its a 3 star hotel which only cost RM100 a night.

We managed to take lots of photo and shop around.  The fish is so cheap, about 30 small grouper only cost RM 10, we bought 3 big grouper that cost only RM10 and squid RM 10 for our restaurant to cook.

   

locals in Semporna

We arrive Thien Wang Restaurant with hungry stomach,  looking forward to have a delicious and cheap seafood.  After a while we found that the cook from Thien Wang is not working there anymore and his helper can cook for us.  So we have a try, the food not even tasty at all.  I am so sad as I purposely want to have seafood in Semporna as last year the food is excellent, this keep me coming this year.  What to do, so went back to hotel and rest.  We tried to look for other alternative.  We hope that the turtle, fish and coral stiil the same. Hopefully......