The Dancing Fountains at Dubai Mall is probably the most famous free attraction in Dubai, and something worth doing if you are visiting for a day or two. The fountain has day shows which are supposedly around 1pm and 1.30pm, although when I went there, there was not no 1pm show. However the night shows are much better to watch, as it gets ridiculously hot during the day, especially during summer and you can only see the fancy lights at night. The night shows start at 6pm, lasts about 5 minutes and there is one show every half an hour until 9pm. The night shows get more visitors, so be there about 10 to 15 minutes prior to the show you want to catch, otherwise you'll have to make do with peeping over people's shoulders.

During my recent trip to Semporna, Sabah for diving, I found quite a few dive operators located all baby each other, just off the coast where all the good diving Islands area. My personal recommendation, being the only dive operator there which I've had experience with, is Borneo Global Sipadan, which has accommodation options of a nice backpacker's place which I talked about in this post, and a swankier hotel called Seafest Hotel.

The management of the dives by Borneo Global Sipadan was also pretty good. Good things about how they operate:

I've been on two Proboscis Monkey River Cruises in Sabah, Malaysia. One was during my more recent trip in July 2015 to Semporna for a diving trip to Sipidan Island, and another during a company trip to Sepilok in year 2011. I thought might as well kill two birds with one stone in this post and talk about both of those trips in this post. I can't say either one was much better than the other, as both were similar and the luck with seeing Proboscis monkeys apparently depends on the season (they mostly come out during rainy season when the leaves are tastier and hence they hang out closer to the river edges where tourists come by in their boats), but my luck at seeing more interesting wildlife was better at Sepilok. Perhaps if I had gone at a different time to the river cruise at Semporna, my luck would have been better.