Sights in Pulau Labuan
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Marine Museum
On the coast just east of the centre, the Labuan International Sea Sports Complex houses the Marine Museum. It’s a decent little museum with a good shell collection and displays of marine life found in the area. Don’t forget to head upstairs where you’ll find a 42ft-long skeleton of an Indian fin whale. The real highlight, however, and a guaranteed hit with the kids, is the ‘touch pool’ opposite reception. This has to be the only shark-petting zoo we’ve ever seen (fret not: the sharks are less than a metre long).
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Labuan Museum
The Labuan Museum takes a glossy, if slightly superficial, look at the island’s history and culture. The most interesting displays are those on the different ethnic groups here, including a diorama of a traditional Chinese tea ceremony (the participants, however, look strangely Western). There’s also an excellent diorama of a water village.
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Labuan Marine Park
Pulau Kuraman, Pulau Rusukan Kecil and Pulau Rusukan Besar are uninhabited islands lying southwest of Labuan that are now protected as the Labuan Marine Park. The beaches are pristine, but dynamite fishing has destroyed much of the coral. There is no regularly scheduled transport to the park but Borneo Star Dive can help you get there.
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Peace Park/Surrender Memorial
A Peace Park/Surrender Memorial west of the island at Layang Layangan commemorates the place of Japanese surrender and has a Japanese war memorial. It's in a pleasant garden on the seashore. A taxi here will run around RM25.
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Pantai Pancur Hitam
The Pantai Pancur Hitam is a decent shallow beach that has a picnic area for children. Keep your eye out for monitor lizards. Bus 6 runs to the beach from downtown. A taxi from downtown will cost around RM25.
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Financial Park
Tragically, the modern chrome-and-mirrors Financial Park duty-free mall is trumpeted as the town's No 1 'attraction', aiming to seduce shoppers and booze-cruisers into parting with their cash.
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Labuan Bird Park
Towards the northern tip of the island, Labuan Bird Park offers refuge to a wide range of species in three geodesic domes, and a swathe of rainforest.
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Labuan War Memorial
The Labuan War Memorial is an expanse of lawn with row upon row of headstones dedicated to the nearly 4000 Commonwealth servicemen, mostly Australian and British, who lost their lives in Borneo during WWII. The most heartbreaking are the last two rows of memorials on the north end that read merely 'a soldier'. The cemetery is near the golf course, about 2km east of town along Jln Tanjung Purun. A taxi to the memorial will cost around RM10.
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