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Malaysia
The tropical waters off both Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo offer the world's best scuba diving. This is a place endowed with some of the sport's best possibilities: you can dive with whale sharks, hover around immense coral gardens and walls, or dive on ominous and hulking WWII shipwrecks. In many places, you can get 100 + feet of visibility. Also, the country has become increasingly aware of the biological and economic importance of its marine heritage, and each year brings better access to and protection for the unique marine life. Because of the hundreds of islands, there are many dive options.
BNO and SAR passport holder no need to apply visa and stay for 3 months
Malaysia Consulate Info: Address: 23/F, Malaysia Building, Gloucester Rd, Wan Chai Tel: 2527 0921
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| Langkawi |
Visibility: Average 20m (some spots reaching 30m.) Water Temperature: Tropical, 21ºC-29ºC (3mm suit is adequate in most conditions.) Time to Dive: late October through June Dive Site: Pulau Dayang Bunting, Pulau Beras, Pulau Singa Besar and Pulau Cenang,Pulau Payar Dive Attractions: Langkawi is clustered of 104 islands and have many limestone hills and caves. Pulau Payar is a beautiful dive site at its rocky southwestern end called "Coral Garden"; where rocky slopes are nearly fully covered with brightly soft coral, and dark green tree like dandroid and multitudes of sea fans and cone shells thrive in its deeper waters. Don't be surprised by the sheer number and variety of sea squirts, sea slugs, hermit crabs, feather starfish, sea anemone, lion fish, barracudas, rainbow runners, rock fish and ghost fish out to befriend the curious and admiring diver.
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| Sipadan |
Visibility: Average 25m. (Ranges from 10m inshore to 40 m or more in offshore.) Water Temperature: 21-29ºC (3mm suit is adequate and many people dive in skinsuits) Time to Dive: Year round, best between March and September Dive Attractions: Sipadan is the paradise of divers. A traditionally protected wilderness offering world class diving condition where thousands of colourful agile reef fishes are darting through a wall of multi-hued hanging corals. Diver can encounter with the turtles and met different marine life from the lowest invertebrates to the primitive sharks and the myriad of marine. |
| Layang Layang |
Visibility: 20 - 50m Water Temperature: 26 - 30¢XC Time To Dive: from March to August best in April and May(can see hammerhead sharks ) Dive Attractives: Layang-Layang is famous for sightings of the large pelagic species and for wall diving such as hammerhead sharks which gather here to perform their mating rituals. Or you may also encounter a Whale shark or two. The extraordinary coral gardens of these virgin atoll reefs surrounding Layang Layang Island has never been fished or experienced any kind of man-made pollution. Diving in Layang Layang is challenging and varied. |
| Mataking Island |
Visibility: 8-25m Water Temperature: 25 - 29¢XC Time To Dive: Year round, best from Feburary to July Dive Attractives: As the richness and convenience of some great nearby diving, many guests simply dive the Mataking sites locally. Around ten dive site arround the island and the furthest only 25 minutes from shore. You will not find the big pelagics but blue-ringed octopus, flamboyant cuttlefish, frogfish, pygmy seahorses and many other small-scale delights. |
| Sangalaki |
Visibility: 10 - 30m Water Temperature: 28 - 30¢XC Best Time To Dive: Year round Dive Attractives: In Sangalaki, divers are easy to see Manta Ray and numbers of green turtles, sightings of rays, cuttlefish, batfish, groupers, sweetlips and moray etc... On the other hand, Jellyfish Lake on nearby Kakaban Island is another highlights as well. You will find thousands of jellyfish floating around you. As they have had no encounters with their natural predators and have no sting. |
It locates in Tropical area but without extremely high temperatures throughout year. Days are very warm, while nights are fairly cool. The main rainy season in the east runs between November and February, while August is the wettest period on the west coast. East Malaysia has heavy rains (November to February) in Sabah and in Sarawak. However, it is difficult to generalize about the country¡¦s climate, as rainfall differs on the east and west coasts according to the prevailing monsoon winds (northeast or southwest). |
Capital Kuala Lumpur
Area 329,750sq.km
Population 23,000,000
Language Bahasa Melayu is the national language, but English is widely spoken, Cantonese, Hokkien and Hakka are spoken by Malaysia¡¦s Chinese population and Tamil, Malayalam and Hindi among the Indian population.
Time zone Same as Hong Kong
Currency Malaysian Ringgit(RM)
Exchange rate HKD 10=MYR 4.86 (for reference only)
Electricity 220 volts ,three-pin plugs are used.

Emergency call 999
IDD code
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