Well, the last few days have been just spent chilling out in Johor Bahru. The city is not particularly interesting but the guest house was so nice, as well as being really cheap, that we thought it would be nice to stick around and relax for a few days after the mania of Singapore and KL. Also, it gave us an extra week or so for the weather to get better in our next destination, Mersing. Mersing is on the east coast of Malaysia, about 3 hours north of here (in the southermost tip). It's a quiet little fishing town and it looks really nice from everything we've seen so far. It's also the ferry port for Pulau Tioman, a gorgeous looking little island that we'll try and get across to, weather permitting. The monsoon season
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