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By frisian traveler
October 26th 2009

Pulau Tioman Asia » Malaysia » Pahang » Pulau Tioman

Upon arrival @ Tioman

04 - 07 October The boat ride was quite pleasant, although we missed the larger part of it thanks to a lovely nap. Upon arrival the mist was still hanging low on the hills, with the sun breaking through the clouds, reflecting on that oh so blue water. Beautiful! Our jetty at ABC was the fourth. After a little walk around we decided to stay at Mawar's chalets. A little worn out but at 35 RM a night a bargain. The food was cheap too and Tioman being tax free, 3 cans of beer went for 10 RM at different places [View Full Entry]

''After ejaculation each cel swims as fast as possible to be the first to reach the womb''

By Patsy the Purple Cow
September 14th 2009

Patsy in Paradise Asia » Malaysia » Pahang » Pulau Tioman

I Feel So Smoochy

We went from Melacca to a town called Mersing, and spent a night there. Then we took a ferry to an island called Tioman. It was a really, really, really pretty beach, with super clear water. You could walk out and snorkel. It was really fun. What I liked best. There was a morning where we went out and snorkeled. It was incredibly clear. We saw coral reefs and a bunch of different fish. Some coral reefs look like brains, or what you would imagine brains look like - cows have never seen brains before. Some coral were really colorful - [View Full Entry]

By Josh Gonya
September 12th 2009

Tioman! Asia » Malaysia » Pahang » Pulau Tioman

Malaysian Ronald

Tioman: An island off the east coast of Malaysia, it was depicted as the exotic "Bali Hai" in the musical South Pacific in 58', then in 1970 was voted most beautiful island, and rightfully so. I took a weekend trip with three other people and it was fantastic. We left on Friday morning traveled across the border to Johor Bahru (JB), Malaysia. We pulled into a bus depot in a public transportation bus from SG, as soon as the doors open I heard several voices yelling "Get off! Get off! Get Off!" I thought there was a fire or a bomb [View Full Entry]

By PMJEinAsia
September 7th 2009

Tropical Paradise: Tioman Island, Malaysia Asia » Malaysia » Pahang » Pulau Tioman

View from the Water

Tioman Island by May Our 5 days on Tioman consisted of basically the same routine. • We’d wake up fix tea, toast and cornflakes in our little beach house’s kitchenette. • Then we’d swim and snorkel for a couple of hours. • Time to shower and go 2 minutes to the next door beach front, open air restaurant and get a drink (Coke, for me) and a little snack (usually French fries for Ella) and play cards or read. • We’d sit there about an hour and then miraculously it was lunchtime and we were hungry, so we’d order more [View Full Entry]

By Amy and Dan
September 1st 2009

Disappointment on Pulau Tioman...and a belly full of ants Asia » Malaysia » Pahang » Pulau Tioman

Mersing to Pulau Tioman

August 25 2009 - August 30 2009 Mersing to Pulau Tioman (Tekek pier) (35RM one-way)--2 hours We thankfully got on a proper boat (as supposed to what they called boats to the Perhentian Islands) for the 2 hour trip to Pulau Tioman. The journey was pretty uneventful this time (thankfully) and passing the islands of the Seribuat Archipelago was quite impressive, especially the monstrous mountain of Pulau Tinggi (Tall Island) in the distance. We arrived at Tekek pier on the western coast of the huge and mountainous-looking island of Tioman and had chosen to stay at Juara Bay on the eastern [View Full Entry]

By tomandjoeysblog
July 16th 2009

Relaxing on Tioman island... Asia » Malaysia » Pahang » Pulau Tioman

Hello everyone, sorry its been so long - we've been busy relaxing on the beautiful Pulau Tioman for the last 2 weeks.... We finally left Kuala Lumpur on the Friday, complete with new passports and a letter from the embassy explaining our old ones had been stolen and to please let us leave Malaysia! A short 4 hour bus journey later we were in the town of Mersing where we would take the ferry across to Tioman. Mersing itself doesnt really warrant much of a description - if it was a little more charming we were going to stay there a [View Full Entry]

By Natsausage
July 6th 2009

Shark! Asia » Malaysia » Pahang » Pulau Tioman

The flight to Kuala Lumpur was only 5 hours, but they didn't stop feeding us!! Seriously, every 5 minutes they were walking round passing out nuts, drinks, beer, sandwiches! We even got a huge meal, veggies with rice, a croissant, cake, fruit! Ace :) Kuala Lumpur's a very energetic city, at first it's a bit overwhelming, but it's loads of fun once you get used to it. It was really hot though and we hadn't been to a beach in ages so we got on a bus then a boat to a gorgeous little tropical island down at the south end [View Full Entry]

By Wet Footprints
May 23rd 2009

Getting Wet in Tioman - a quick update! Asia » Malaysia » Pahang » Pulau Tioman

Lucy Swimming with the fishes

Blog 3 - Getting wet in Tioman Just a quick update for you all to show you what the diving is like here in Tioman. Oh and I would like to announce and congratulate Tioman’s most recently qualified Open Water Diver, Ladies and gentleman please put your hands together for Lucy Hollely - open water diver!!! (Applause please) Hope you all enjoy the photo’s! We are probably only going to be on Tioman for another 4 days, and then it is off to Singapore for a couple of days to have a slice of modern city life and to try and [View Full Entry]

By Leah O
May 20th 2009

Tioman Island...Back to the beach and finally a diver! Asia » Malaysia » Pahang » Pulau Tioman

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Tioman Island! Not too many pics to show from here, cause I was busy most of the time in scuba diving class! I'm so excited to have finally gotten my certificate, Ive wanted to do it for so long! I love it too, the sea life here is amazing. And the corals too! Scuba diving enables you to see so much more than snorkeling, it is soooo fun! This island is very simple, and under developed which is nice. There isnt even a main road where we stayed, just a walking path! Food was kindof hit and miss. Lots of big [View Full Entry]

By Wet Footprints
May 18th 2009

Pulau Tioman - Started off as hell and turned out to be paradise Asia » Malaysia » Pahang » Pulau Tioman

Footprint

The journey from KL to Mersing, started off fairly smoothly (much like our journey to Malaysia from the UK…..) we managed to get up on time and check out and even make our way to the right bus terminal and the correct counter!!! According to the timetables and the Lonely Planet the bus journey is meant to take a reasonable 5hours, this seemed like a fairly good duration especially considering we were aiming for the 2.30pm ferry from Mersing to Tioman. With the bus leaving KL at 9am we thought that this could be a little tight for getting that particular [View Full Entry]

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