http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Malaysia , Pahang , Pulau Tioman en-us Thu, 10 Dec 09 13:16:55 +0000 Thu, 10 Dec 09 13:16:55 +0000 04 07 OctoberThe 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. BeautifulOur 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-444546.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-436397.html 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 transportatio http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-436005.html Tioman Island by MayOur 5 days on Tioman consisted of basically the same routine. bull Wersquod wake up fix tea toast and cornflakes in our little beach housersquos kitchenette. bull Then wersquod swim and snorkel for a couple of hours. bull 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 F http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-434445.html August 25 2009 August 30 2009Mersing to Pulau Tioman Tekek pier 35RM oneway2 hoursWe 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 Pu http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-432989.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-420522.html 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 http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-415627.html Blog 3 Getting wet in TiomanJust 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 Tiomanrsquos most recently qualified Open Water Diver Ladies and gentleman please put your hands together for Lucy Hollely open water diverApplause pleaseHope you all enjoy the photorsquosWe are probably only going to be on T http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-401352.html 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 funThis island is very simple and under developed which is http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-400375.html The journey from KL to Mersing started off fairly smoothly much like our journey to Malaysia from the UKhellip.. 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 consideri http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-399870.html I am Jack's broken heart we have now left Tioman...Apparently you go to Tioman for what is under the water but as much as that is true the island itself is an untrodden untrampled paradise there is no urgency to develop here everything and everyone is mellow. Nothing else matters there is a healthy disregard for time with no need to run around at such a speed you may think its lazy i do http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-394691.html Kuala Lumpur was so different to any other city i'd visited in Asia or different to any other city i'd been too in my life Its so modern and cosmopolitan but the people are soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo friendly and I have no qualms in saying they are by far the most pleasant helpful kind nationality I have ever come across.Arriving into Kuala Lumpur was a bit of a shock after the basic co http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-392442.html Been wanting to update this for over a yr now. My first experience of the underwater world. Me and azhar along with 2 other certified diver friends headed for tioman. Everything was just perfect. Even the bumpy ride in Izwan's super lowered car. Should had taken novomin man..... Still thankyou izwan for drivingBtw... this is my first time going to tioman. Have been to kapas and perhentian http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-392325.html On 25th March we travelled by bus to Mersing in Johor in order to get the boat on to Tioman. We were met off the bus by a travel agent and unusually for us we succumbed to his recommendation and booked 6 nights at a resort on Tioman. Our only excuse was that it was getting late and would have been too late to find our own accommodation on the island. We hurried to the Mersing ATM so we could pa http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-388374.html Pulau TiomanSaturday March 28th at 300AM a group of NUS exchange students and I took off in a bus for Mersing Malaysia. We were destined for a relaxing weekend of 2 of Malaysia's most exotic islands pulau means island in Malay It was an early start but it was the best was to reduce the cost of an extra night's accommodation without wasting the whole day getting there. We arrived in Mersing w http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-386509.html Hej alle laesere.. Meget har vi oplevet siden vi sidst skrev hvilket da ogsaa er aarsagen til at vi ikke har haft tid til at finde et sted med internet.. Vi forlod for en uge siden Borneo efter 3 fantastiske uger for at skifte rammerne fuldstaendigt. Vi tog nemlig til Singapore. En storby af kaliber der foerte tankerne tilbage til Hong Kong.. Singapore var for det foerste meget ren med en hel http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-379357.html Everyone in India has moustaches it seemed to me it's just that the men make more of a spectacle of them. Consequently when we arrived in Goa I let my face hair grow until I settled on a natural bushy top lip and a semi Brazilian bottom lip. As time progressed I found that the length allowed me to twist the ends at the corners of my mouth achieving a kind of Salvador Dali effect. Sue didnt like http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-379285.html On our second day in Tioman we decided to get a trip around the island in a boat with Belen Nils Henrik and Denise for 100RM each. We were picked up on the jetty by 3 locals at about 10.30AM and took off towards the first of 5 stops.First off was Juara one of the more secluded and quiter beaches and reputedly also one of the most beautiful. It took about half an hour to get there at a leisurel http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-376745.html Being a tropical island Tioman has its fair share of scary fascinating and cute creatures. We had only been on the island a matter of hours before we turned a corner and were face to face with a monitor lizard. Unlike the the cute little 10cm geckos that you usually find on holiday monitor lizards are carnivorous beasts that can reach up to 7 feet long and it was quite a shock to come face to f http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-376483.html After our sleepless night in Mersing we trudged to the jetty to catch the ferry to Mersing. A guy at the bedbug guesthouse called Omar's Backpacker Hostel incedentally in case you ever need to avoid it had sold us a pair of return ferry tickets for 70RM each about 14 pounds and booked us into a chalet on the island for a further 80RM 16 pounds so we already had accommodation sorted at leas http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Pahang/Pulau-Tioman/blog-376469.html