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Gayana Island, Sabah - Paradise in the Wilderness

Gayana Island EcoResort in Pulau Gaya, near Kota Kinabalu, Sabah is the brainchild of Datuk Joseph Ambrose Lee, a well-known businessman in Malaysia who also owns a fast food chain, Sugar Bun in Borneo.

The desire to rehabilitate marine life, his main wish to see people love the nature and his overwhelming dream to see tourists coming in are temptations that he could not resist for so long. He developed Pulau Gaya into a resort area for people to come and rest, for scuba divers to swim and see with their own eyes the beauty of coral reefs as well for marine researchers to initiate research on marine life.

"I came to the island one day to see with my own eyes and looked at the problems associated with the island. I saw marine life and corals were destroyed by greedy fishermen who used bomb to catch the fish. I saw pollution all over the island and I saw squatters and illegal immigrants there.

"I came back to Kota Kinabalu and said to myself that I will develop the island into a beautiful place for people of all life to flock to the island for a number of reasons," he said in Sabah.

That was many years ago and today, Pulau Gaya has a resort hotel as well as plenty of activities for the visitors, not only from foreign countries like Brunei, Middle East and Europe but more importantly the island has now become a favourite get-away for the people of Sabah too. Even the former Malaysian Prime Minister prefers to stay there if he comes to Sabah for a visit.

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Gayana Island, Sabah - Paradise in the Wilderness

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