The Hammock

We are finally back from Pulau Tioman and we got what we came for - good diving (not spectacular, but really, really nice) with lots of sea and sun time. Got sun burnt couple of times, but hey, we knew it was going to happen.

We also brought lots of good luck with us. On our first day diving here we had a nice encounter with manta ray - first one they saw in last 2 years. We even have the picture to prove it.

But most of all we are staring to slow down. And not plan. Well sort of. Nives almost flipped yesterday when ferry didn't show up - not being on schedule. To nowhere really, but still schedule. Few drinks resolved that problem. Being on the small island with nothing to do helps. We are flying through our book collection - already needed to exchange 3 books. We didn't even notice that there is no Internet on the island - well there is 30kbs connection for the whole island - absolutely not usable!

Food was really good - Malay, Indian, Chinese, European (there was a pizza!) and bbq! Rice is almost always on the menu (when not, it's noodles), and we are starting to miss bread and Irish butter.

All that duty free beer is starting to show on Dejan's belly so we decided that it is time to go north into more Muslim dominant areas where such over indulgence will not happen.

To have a look at some more of our Tioman pictures click here.

The only Tioman minus are the sand flies in all of the sandy beaches. This things itch for weeks after the bite (and we mean weeks, Nives is a living example). We changed the town on Tioman from nice one with sandy beach to one with rocky beach in hope of less sand flies. In the end it was back to long trousers in evenings :(

Today we spent whole day in Mersing in the port bar (Free WiFI) and are leaving on overnight bus (10 hours) north to catch the ferry to Perhenthian islands.

So it's back to radio silence for another week or so (see how we like it up there) until we are back on the main land.