Diving Sabah? Dive Downbelow!

During the east coast leg of our Danish adventure group’s Borneo Adventure, one of the interesting places they visited was the Gomantong Caves.

The Gomantong Caves are best know as a significant source of Bird Nest, the key ingredient for the sought after Chinese elixir Bird Nest Soup.

So important are the Gomantong Caves’ bird nest resources, that because of it the surrounding jungle was declared a national park, while the caves are guarded year round, even in the off season.

During the Borneo Adventure with Downbelow, adventurers get to wander inside the Gomantong Caves and explore the labyrinth with gravity defying bamboo ladders reaching for the cave roof high above.

Our Danish adventurers learned more about bird nest harvesting and got to see how the harvesters spend their days.

To enjoy this interesting stop on its own or as part of the Borneo Adventure, please contact our Travel Consultants with your dates, and we’ll happily put a package together to suit your needs.

Our adventurous Danes vacated the island last week and headed off to Mt. Kinabalu to continue their Sabah adventures.

While they were on the island and in the capable hands of resident PADI Course Director Richard Swann and the rest of the Downbelow Instructors, the Danes completed a slew of PADI diver training courses.

Amongst the 18 strong group of Danish adventurers, Downbelow qualified 16 Open Water divers, 2 Advanced Open Water divers, did 2 Underwater Photography courses and 18 Coral Reef Conservation courses.

Well done to the Danes for mastering, with smiles all the way, the steep learning curve, and to the Downbelow staff for successfully guiding the Danes through their diving adventures.

The Danes are almost immediately succeeded by our next group, but more about that in an upcoming post.

The Danish adventure group was back on the island again this week after hiking the Borneo jungle along the Salt Trails.

This time they were living on Gaya island at our PADI 5 Star IDC Dive Centre, where the Downbelow crew erected a group-sized tent for them.

Protected from the elements and creatures, their temporary accommodations was, as our resident PADI Course Director Richard likes to say, 1 million star accommodation.

All they had to do at night was peak out from under the tent and look up to the clear skies above Kota Kinabalu… unless it was raining of course, in which case they were safe and dry nevertheless.

Regardless, they lived on the island during their PADI Open Water Course. Every morning they would awake at the crack of dawn to the sounds of the jungle and waves gently lapping the beach in front of the dive centre.

Our dive centre on Gaya island is beautifully equipped for groups and we’ll be using it extensively throughout the next couple of weeks as we host several groups.

If you’re looking for group activities, be it team building, scuba diver training or environmental awareness, get in touch and let’s see how we can get your group camping on Gaya island.

Our international staff provide personal, premier service at our PADI 5 Star Instructor Development (IDC) Dive Centre, where we pride ourselves on small group tuition with extremely high safety standards & procedures.

Do visit us at our Dive Shop & Travel Centre where we offer free wireless Internet and refreshments.

Tel: +6 012 866 1935
Email: dive@divedownbelow.com

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