Lankayan Island Resort Sandakan

Lankayan Island Resort 

SANDAKAN, BORNEO, MALAYSIA

Stay 

The Lankayan Island Resort offers 23 spacious but simple and comfortable sea front timber chalets. Each chalet has a balcony overlooking the white sandy beach or turquoise coloured ocean.  The rooms are equipped with a mini-fridge, hot running water, and a coffeemaker. There is no TV but there is so much to see outside that you really don’t need one. 

ChildCare 

Children are welcome to stay at the Lankayan Island Resort, but there are no specific facilities available. 

Dine 

The restaurant on Lankayan Island is spacious and serves some of the best and freshest seafood available. A wide variety of dishes, both western and Asian are served as a buffet on the open-air wooden terrace. It is also a great spot for after dinner relaxation and chatting, while admiring the dozens of juvenile black tip sharks swimming leisurely a few feet beneath.

Relax 

Situated within the Sea Turtle Corridor, Lankayan Island is also a nesting   place and foraging ground for sea turtles; most commonly Green and   Hawksbill Turtle. One late afternoon as the sun was about to set, we were walking on the beach, when we saw the nest suddenly burst open and the baby turtles began to crawl instantly towards the sea. It was an amazing site to watch and certainly one of great highlights of our stay at the Lankayan Island.

Experience 

You can walk around the Island in 10-15 minutes but we decided to kayak around the Lankayan Island instead. This turned out to be rather hard work but we had some amazing experiences. We saw some healthy coral and a variety of marine life, including blue star fish, lion fish, baby reef sharks, bat fish, clown fish, and an occasional barracuda. We even followed a mother green turtle as she swam close to the beach and saw cuttlefish, moray eels and giant clams that were truly impressive.