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Like something out of the film Waterworld, Kapalai Dive Resort is built on stilts on a reef amongst some of the world's most stunning scuba diving in the Celebes Sea. For those wanting to escape the world, sitting on a deck chair watching the sun go down over the mainland on the distant horizon is the perfect tonic.

Rooms are more than comfortable, obviously all over water, with well designed private decks for some serious apres dive chilling.The centre of the main dining room has an open void through to the reef below and it's not uncommon to see live versions of your dinner swimming past.

The resort is a web of rich wood walkways connecting the rooms with dining areas, the dive department and even a beach rotundra; easily the perfect spot for a cool sundowner.It might be predominantly a divers resort but there is plenty to do for non-divers with a white sand beach materialising at low tide and snorkelling from any part of the resort that would keep you busy for a week trying to see every highlight. For the divers, you are only a twenty minute boat ride to Sipadan, one
of the more stunning dive sites in the world.