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Spa-ing provides welcome downtime at the Gayana Eco Resort, a luxe camp inside a national marine park, where kayaking, jungle trekking, and snorkeling are also on the menu. Two manicure-pedicure rooms feature ultra-plush chairs and floor-to-ceiling views of the South China Sea; upstairs, treatment rooms have high alang-alang thatched roofs. Treatments, some using Pevonia Botanica products, are mostly indigenous in origin. Try the Borneo Traditional Urut massage, with long-stroke full-palm repetitions taught by mothers to their daughters. Here during the monsoon? The Traditional Borneo Body Wrap, with local herbs and heated red clay, warms the body. Neighboring farmers provide the cold-press pure coconut oil, which also makes a memorable souvenir.