Mersing, Malaysia Travel Blogs

Mersing
May 12, 2006 (2 photos)

... and paid for them (ourselves going back to KL and Phil and Julie going on to Singapore) we will spend the next 2 nights here in Mersing. The 4 of us have also decided to stay in a plush hotel for next 2 nights - A Quad room costing RM260 a night (which ...

How many cats d'you want?
May 29, 2008 (3 photos)

Just arrived in Mersing over on the east coast. Cats everywhere. Missed the last ferry so staying overnight. Should make it over to Pulau Tioman tomorrow..

Back in underpants land
Jun 10, 2004 (3 photos)

... happy about being here and not on my tropical paradise, but I figured I had better see something of Malaysia apart from sand. Doesn't help that I'm in Mersing - I'm sure its a lovely seaside town, but that night on the jetty is pretty much going ot ruin it ...

Mersing urgent Island call
Feb 3, 2005 (4 photos)

hallo ihr da draussen, hab nicht viel zeit, weil gleich die faehre nach tioman island (malaysia) geht, wo es wohl fantastische korallen zu beschnorcheln gibt. habe es endlich geschafft aus dem sterilen singapur wegzukommen. jatzt beginnt die reise ...

P1 Restaurant
Jun 11, 2008 (1 photos)

Had great food at P1 Pizza and Pasta Restaurant and chatted to the really friendly Swiss owner of the place for a few hours. Omar's Backpackers has beds, four walls and not much else. A quick stopover, get the boat to Tioman Island in the morning. ...

Mersing
Oct 5, 2009

I arrived on the ferry two hours after leaving Tioman. The minute I got off I got 10 different taxi offers which I turned down stupidly.. I ended up carrying like 80 pounds of luggage 2 km into town to the bus stop. Got there and the guy was nice enough ...

Stopover in Mersing
Jul 20, 2009 (1 photos)

Mersing turned out to be a two street town full of traffic and (strangely) large butterflies. We successfully found the chinese electrical store that we'd been told about, Kedda  Komputer and Elektrikal Goods, and they did indeed have a laptop supply ...

Mersing
Sep 20, 2002 (1 photos)

Although the road is rocky, it sure feels good to me and if I'm lucky .... Now this is more like it!! Malaysia is much like parts of Africa only different. The main differences, it's moving forward. Slightly chaotic and it's all building in progress the ...

It really is a lonely planet!!
Aug 7, 2003 (3 photos)

... into the sea or tread on one of the hundreds of crabs. Needless to say we were not very successful! The east coast of Malaysia consists mainly of kampungs (villages). Although this makes it scenic and unusual, it means there's not a hell of a lot to do ...

Sleeping in Mersing Bus Station - Awesome!
Jul 11, 2007

... on keeping you awake. Yet again, we arrived before schedule, this time about 4 am, with the boat for Tioman departing at 7.30. I collapsed on a bench, hugging my bags and fell asleep like a tramp! Mmm, nice! Mersing looked nice though... from the bench.

Back on the Malaysian Mainland
Jul 16, 2007

Back in Mersing, and a little more awake this time, if only slightly so. But extremely sunburnt and so cowering in the shade at every possible opportunity. We arrived hopeful that we could just rock up and book a bus ticket to Singapore, and not miss our ...

Pulau Tioman
May 13, 2008 (33 photos)

Hey, is good place to relax and release. Enjoy the photo.

Mersing, Malaysia
Feb 18, 2008 (3 photos)

... siis jai ja meian piti muuttaa suunnitelmia. Nyt lahetaan siis vaan eteenpain Singaporeen muutamia paivia aikasemmin. Mersing on pieni kaupunki meren rannalla. Ystavallisia ihmisia ja pieni merituuli. Rantabulevardilla kaveltiin tanaan ja merta ei ...

Mersing
Jul 29, 2006

Mersing Only stayed here one night waiting to get the ferry to Pulau Tioman but every person we met was just lovely from the staff in East Coast Backpackers, to the Swiss husband and wife who owned P1, a really nice restaurant by the pier, to the guy in ...

Mersing
May 21, 2007

Mersing

Journey to Malaysia, and a Hospital Visit
Feb 18, 2007

... , through customs and found the correct us to the port town on the east coast. The landscape throughout the bus ride through Malaysia was the deepest, densest jungle I have ever seen. Very cool. We missed the last ferry out to our island and had to spend ...

Cooking with gas
Feb 12, 2006 (6 photos)

... . This little island has some amazing beaches (especially Juara on the very quiet east coast). It is a 2 hr boatride from mainland Malaysia and Andy vomited the entire way there. We stayed in chalets right on the beach costing RM10-15 (about $3) per ...

Freedom!
Sep 14, 2008

... to lap up as much time in the sun as i can. First of all i headed to the tioman islands off the east coast of malaysia. Theres honestly not alot to say in this blog as there wasnt alot to do, it was a small quiet friendly island with little beach huts ...

Tioman/Mersing
Jul 20, 2003

... night but people were starting to disappear off so I decided to make a break for it. I got the ferry at 2.30 to Mersing , a little fishing village (with broadband). I did make a little error of judgement though, When I went in the ferry place I said I ...

Mersing
May 11, 2007

Mving on...

Too many 'Tigers' and angry ocean....
Jan 30, 2003

... days. So we rewind 3 weeks to Jan. 30, 2003. 6:00 AM in Singapore I'm on my way to JB in Malaysia to catch a 3 hour bus to get to Mersing (the east coast town and jumping off point to get to Tioman). Everything I had read told me that the ferries leave ...

Mersing, Johor, Malaysia
Jul 3, 2009 (2 photos)

Stayed at Sweet Hotel, 5A, Jalan Jemaluang, 86800 Mersing, Johor (tel 077992229, fax 977993545.  100R/n for a triple room (n/breakfast). The Mersing Seafood Restaurant on 56 Jalan Ismail was excellent. A meal for three was 58R and that is incl. a ...

Tropical Tioman
Jul 14, 2006 (6 photos)

... spirts and wine. We have our fav beach bars and resteraunts as well. We are moving onwards tommorow heading up the east coast to the Perentians another Island group but in the North of Malaysia. Probably stay a night in Kuantan and then Kota Bharu.

Week 19 - 20 blog entry, internetting, 2 nights
Feb 18, 2008 (2 photos)

... , I think it's about 100 days until we'll be back. Take care of yourselves and keep reading our blogs, thanks! Financial details Malaysia: Raffi 22.08e/day, Nora 18.29e/day; not including our five days of splurging on Penang, which would raise my ...

2 Days to Kill
May 12, 2009

to follow...

Nearly didn't make it into Malaysia!
Nov 2, 2009

... had been taken from me and I was feeling slightly nervous and was wondering if the bus, my luggage and Dave may have gone on to Malaysia without me!  In the end I got a bit of a stern warning to not lose a departure card again to which I said I was ...

Back to Mersing
Jul 4, 2008

Got the boat back to the mainland and are staying in Mersing overnight to get the bus to Melaka tomorrow.

Mersing
Jun 6, 2007

Gateway to Tioman

Day 1
Sep 9, 2006

... 'Wow, such a big bus' but it was catered for a big group of around 40 plus people. The bus took around 2.5 hrs to reach Mersing where we stayed at a beachside 'hotel' for the night. We had a good sleep from 0030 to 0630. It was a great idea to stay ...

Night in transit
Aug 1, 2009

... We said our farewells to the B&J team – hopefully we will see them again, then caught our ferry. We arrived in Mersing at 6:30pm. After walking into the town we found some dinner and headed to the bus station where we were joined on our bench by ...