MIMPIAN JADI RESORT (CLUB SABAH RESORT)

(Mimpian Jadi Resort Bhd.) Tel: 088-787799 Fax: 088-787775, 088-787700
No. 1, Kuala Matinggi, Kg. Pulau Simpangan, 89208 P.O.Box 230, Tuaran, Sabah.

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A resort in Sabah with three Moai-like statues as its trademark.

Built near a sandy white beach, Mimpian Jadi Resort formerly known as Kampung Resort and Club Sabah) is in Tuaran, about 1 hour drive via Tuaran new road from Kota Kinabalu.

Mimpian Jadi  has 40 chalet-type accommodation. A low cost alternative for a tropical vacation getaway compared to the neighboring 5-star resorts Shangri-La's Rasa Ria Resort and Nexus Karambunai Resort.

Among the 4  tropical resorts in Tuaran District, this Mimpian Jadi Resort is the furthest from Kota Kinabalu among. This otherwise called Kampung Resort is secluded and became a good location for an non crowded, sun-filled leisure, luxury, romantic and family vacation getaway.

This resort is far from the polluted city and busy traffic. When team building programs and match-making programs are not held here, the resort is a quite and tranquil location for city people.

Facilities : conference/function room, credit card facilities, foreign exchange service
Accommodation : for family holidays, friends together, small corporate groups, or golfing buddies.

We have been here once. It was in 1995 when we came back to Kota Kinabalu for a brief holiday.

Mimpian Jadi Resort is not beside the highway from Tuaran to Sulaiman. To reach there, we need to drive through a narrow gravel road for more than 5 minutes. Passing through mangrove forest, swampy land, small rivers.

Private jetty provides a host of events such as a water village cruise, mangrove cruise, water bicycle, canoeing, fishing, crab catching, jet skis, banana boat and fish trawling. Other activities are horse riding, Malay blowpipe, lawn bowling, beach soccer, beach volleyball, batik painting, pottery making, go-cart, beach bike, lawn croquet shell digging, scuba diving lesson snorkeling lesson, scuba have-a-try, ping pong, etc.


Here, we had an enjoyable time dipping and splashing in the pool and enjoying sea view, the kids dipping in the pool and the parents gets intimated….It rains at about 5.30pm

These insects indicate the mangrove and nipah ecosystem, as Mempian Jadi is set amid thousands of hectres of Sulaman Mangrove Reserve.
 

Praying Mantis
Most of the praying mantis at home are either brown or green. This has brown spots make it camoflash to a tree's bark.

Rhinoceros Beetle
Rhinoceros Beetles are the biggest in size among insects. But this Rhinoceros is small (comparing to the thumb)

Brown Cicada
There several small brown cicada.

It looks like a baby crab. This is quit unusual to the other spiders we normally see.

Photo courtesy : :http://www.dailyexpress.com.my

One day in January 2006, Manager of this Mimpian Jadi Resort in Tuaran, noticed this creature crossing the road leading to his  resort.

Never seen such creature in life, Christopher Chan approach the local news paper Daily Express for help. Picture was showed to staff in  Fisheries Department but there are more than 500 species of crayfish in the world. Could this be one of the 500 or could it even be a new species?

It has the characteristic of crayfish of  joined head with the thorax (mid-section) and a segmented body, four pairs of legs and a pair  very unusual pincers - they are not equally curved claws, rather, the lower claw is short while the upper claw shapes like a sharp blade three times longer. And  it is combative and fierce, conspicuously slender and long, not much meat for eating it seems, though it measures about 8 inches long.

Villagers however knew the creature as 'Bankala'. A rare creature that bore deep into the earth in the mangrove floor and won't come out unless their holes are covered by big floods. Because they are elusive and their claws are so sharp and attack so much, the villager do not catch them for food.

"When I saw something crawling, initially I thought it was a crab which crawl sideways but then I saw it did something unusual - it could reverse backwards. So, we stopped.... it doesn't look like a prawn, it doesn't look like a crab, but it has the head and tail of a fresh water prawn. It's unique," Christopher said.

"Mystery creature like this illustrates the incredible biodiversity in Sabah's mangrove ecosystems which our resort treasure and want to protect," said Christopher Chan.

But what creature is it?

After publishing a photo of this crab in the daily news, Daily Express further published a digital version in their web sit on January 25, 2006.

Almost immediately the next day on January 26, 2006, the article was picked up in Washington by an administrator of The Bigfoot Forums. http://www.bigfootforums.com with the title Has anyone a clue what this is?

Then on April 8, 2006, someone registered as a new member to The Bigfoot Forums to give the clue...
 

"Hi guys, ...... this is one "mystery" that I'm able to help out on.

This lobster is very common in the country where I live - Fiji! Here, we can go to our markets and find people selling bundles of this lobster. It's called the mud or mangrove lobster and the native name for it is mana.  ......I'm pretty sure this lobster is present in a lot of mangrove areas around the Pacific......."

Its a wonderful Internet World where people across the planet come together for solution.

We found a Hammock by the sea

Nothing beats swaying lazily in a hammock, with a good book, a cool drink, sunshine, and a warm ocean breeze.

Three of us fought for the hammock. None of us like to miss the chance of swaying lazily in a hammock with warm ocean breeze. Yin, the little girl, got the chance to try out first.

Once upon a time I did made myself a hammock from a gunni sack and hung between 2 poles of the high legged of my teacher quarter. After lunch  (my school was only morning session), I would wrap up in the hammock with a book (to help me to fall asleep) and by the time I woke up , it was usually mid afternoon......Those were the days so long time ago.

When a cartoonist wants to drawn a paradise, he often think of a hammock hanging between 2 coconut trees. This is no surprise because hammocks are used to rest, relax and doze zzzZZZZZZ.....forget about the miserable world we lived in.

This Hammock made from intertwined nylon ropes. Rope hammocks have the traditional hammock design look. Hammock brings with it soothing relaxation, soft comfort and calm. It wraps the user round them, providing a comfortable feeling that lures the user back time and again.

I laid on this hammock, such a great place to take a nap, read a book, catch some rays.... as I look up the trees canopy that shelter me from the hot tropical sun, I saw the sun is peeping at me through the green green leaves........

This long beach is only 200 meters in front the resort.

The place is quite, away from city noises, enjoying scenery.  Both Xing and Yin like the beach and the sea waves.

A Cuvier’s Beaked Whale was found dead at this beach in 1997. The whale skeleton is now in UMS's Marin Muzium