My little adventure at Pulau 3 - Sabah

My 1st trip to Pulau 3 in Sabah in 2006. I remember it's end May/early June. Just like to share my experience in Pulau 3. It's famous for the volcano mud - popularised by the 1st Survivor program - a US reality TV show. I'm so excited to come to this island because i saw my friend's photos when she came back from her holiday... it's so different from other tours. So I make sure when i visit KK I must come to Pulau 3. I asked my friend in KK to arrange the trip to Pulau 3. Apparently there are 2 resorts in Pulau 3 - Pulau 3 Resort & Borneo Survivor Resort. My friend booked us the latter. You can check out the website - http://www.borneosurvivor.com.my/

On the way .... greeneries

I can't remember exactly which date we went - most likely is early June 2006, on the day the resort staff picked us up from KK in their pick-up truck & drove us to Kuala Penyu jetty. The journey took about 1 hr plus but I'm very excited already.

Boats carrying Sabah flag

Upon reaching Pulau 3 - so happy

My friend & her bf (then) , now is husband

We reached there in the afternoon - we choose camping style for this trip. Not many people in this resort, there's another group of about 8 - 10 pax. My group has 4 persons. Once we settled down, we changed & start our adventure journey to the volcano mud area. We have to walk a

few km before we reached our destination.

We passed by this Taman Pulau Tiga office - it's the office of Pulau 3 National Park. The first 2 pics is only appetiser. The more bigger volcano mud area is further in. Looks at the photos. They were many people walking out already coz we start our journey quite late.... I forgot to take their

pics..... looks so much fun! I guess they really have fun.

We reached our destination & saw a big volcano mud pond there....i feel "geli-geli".... anyway, we just put our legs inside the mud to get what it feels....slowly we were all inside the mud. Heard that it is good for the skin - wandering whether this is true or not? Don't need to write more, see for yourself....

After having our fun time in the mud, we walked back to our resort - fun fun fun .... we become muddy person. Having our shower ... look at the washroom - it was so basic & back to nature concept. The water is yellowish but anway we washed up coz we have no other choices. Dinners was served by the resort. They have 1 special dish which is local specialties - look at the pics. Forgotten the name of the dish.

Nothing much to do at night, just chit-chatting & we went to sleep about 10+. First time sleeping in a tent - OMG so hot & so uncomfortable, feel like suffocating inside. I remember telling my friend, it better not rain tonight. But the opposite just happened, it rains & very heavily. In a short while, our tent was flooded. We can't tolerate anymore so the 4 of us jump put from our tent with our belongings & run to shelter at their dining area. This is the most interesting & adventureous trip I've been. We were the last 4 who run out from the tent - OMG. The resort staff allowed us to stay in the longhouse which is further up. It's such an adventure, we were changing our accomodation from camp to longhouse in the middle of the night while raining heavily. I can still remember this incident. This trip is the most interesting, exciting & adventureous trip I ever had so far....

Nxt morning, we went for an outing to a nearby island - Pulau Ular - the name itself already tell us that we'll be hunting for snakes - water snakes. This island is popular for snakes. See pics below...

Lazy to continue, just look at the photos & you'll know.

I can summarise my trip to this island as fun, wet, different & unforgetable.

I really miss KK... i wanna go back next year to climb Mt.Kinabalu

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