You may have read a lot about the fish SPA thingy on the magazines and newspapers. Seems like it has become a trendy and fashion health care stuff. The Moroli River of Kg Luanti (Luanti Village) in Ranau has its own version of fish SPA. Before I tried it, I thought I would experience something like below. Hmm… I wish I were the fishes..
Compared to our version, the fish SPA above is like children playing sand. The Moroli River is near to the Sabah Tea Garden after Poring. You need to pay only a few dollars of entrance fee. There are thousands of fishes living in this small river. This “no fishing” zone is part of the sustainable fishing programme to prevent overfishing.
Jeffrin is the manager of the fishes. He doesn’t hire Reddish Log Suckers, the tiny “Doctor Fish” commonly used in fish SPA, as the massangers. Pelian Fishes (Malaysian Masheer) are trained to massage bathers.
The fishes here live peacefully and not afriad of people. Just soak your feet in the water and all of them will come to suck your feet as if they haven’t eaten for days. Seeing the fat fishes so busy “eating”, making me hungry. Just wonder what a fish that fed on dead skin tastes like.
The fishes are about 5 to 8 inches long. Though big, their mouths are teethless and soft. It doesn’t hurt when they nibble off your dead skin. They are so tame that you can catch them easily by hand (or feet).
You also can have “river trekking”. The river is shallow so it is safe to walk in it. If you go with bare foot, the stones under the water will give you a free foot reflexology, quite hurt for weak body like mine.
The water is clean and cooling. Such a pleasure to soak in it during hot day. We are lucky to have clean water to drink. Now the world is fighting with river pollution that got serious each day. Many beautiful and clean rivers in the past have turned into stinky toxic rivers. Many have no choice but continue drinking it. Clean water will become rare in future.
The best part is to enjoy the hardcore SPA, having hundreds of fishes sucking every inch of your skin. The guy below looks like in pain, actually he is enjoying it.
Then he asked for more…
For maximum enjoyment, you may take off your pant. I hope the fishes got deep throat then, haha…
You can hold the fish food in your hand. The fishes will come to play with you when they smell it.
They also provide rooms for you to stay overnight. During school holiday, there are students come here to camp.
Photos taken in Ranau, Sabah, Malaysia Borneo
Nice one, Murphy! Will have to tell my wife to get some fish massage soon.
Another good exposure friend!
Murali has the potential and I hope they will improvise more not just the facilities but the overall interesting experience to the visitors.
The fish massage in Murali is definitely one a kind! urmm there’s no such thing as ‘deep throat’ yea hehe. If you take off your pants chances are you might loose your little buddy with one big rip 😀
Thanks for sharing.
fish massage… nanti mo cuba try test.. good info
it would be thankful if you have the contact number of the place for booking the room to spend a night, then no need to rush go there & rush back to KK for day trip.
where is this place bro? any entrance fee or whatsoever? banyak bah tempat di sabah belum pigi nih ..
Thanks for sharing…I definitely would want to go there.
Very interesting story and nice pictures of the fishes in action. So who’s the woman in the slow shutter water picture? 😀
wow…so nice ,so good…fish massage aa…at luanti ranau…i’ll gonna there..so wonderful place….
p/s x-change link ? OK…
DA> haha… glad I didn’t try that.
pksvince> thanx 4 the suggestion. u can call Jeffrin Majangki at 088- 878044 or 016-806 6598 to book room.
tnuz> if u drive from kk, it is just some KM after Poring and Sabah Tea Garden. Entrance fee is RM5 for local adult, RM2 for child.
Emily> she is the ISO auditor from KL. we just showed her around. u jeolous kah? :-))
Haha no lah, just that the picture looked like those romantic bf/husband-photograph-gf/wife photos 😛
cool!! But thosed fishes are huge man…..cannot tangkap n bbq there kah?? hehe…
Kayoti, i was asking for the same thing too. but they said no. the fishes look so tasty, haha..
The things even a KK boy like me learns from the internet. Thanks man for the great post!! I want to try this whilst I still have my Summer Holidays 😀
From wat i heard from my colleagues, rm5 is for 15min only.. Also camera and handphone is charge when u use it.
I found your blog via Google while searching for fishing river pollution, thank you for posting Fish Massage!
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