Fishing Bay Resort Mersing

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 to let me leave ...

... upto 18m deep but with my advanced (which takes two days, today and tomorrow) I will be able to dive to 30m and also be able to undertake a number of specialty dives such as ice diving which I may be able to do in Canada. After 6 open water dives I cant really describe how amazing the diving is. It is one of the most unique and incredible natural highs that I have ever experienced. It is truly up there with an amazing barrel or a huge carve in thigh ...

... of adventure! we travelled down to the Colonial historical island of Penang, to it's state capital Georgetown. This place was pretty cool, we found a place to crash in Chinatown and explored it's Little India and went to the E&O (Eastern & Oriental hotel) famous for it's visits in the day by Noel Coward, Rudyard Kipling et al... it's a majestic place that does Tiffin of tea, scones and salmon sandwiches... very civilised and unfortunately a ...

... den Inseln angekommen. Aber was soll's! Wir halfen den Jungs schnell beim Entladen der ganzen Sachen und bezogen dann unseren einfachen, aber traumhaft gelegenen Bungalow direkt am Meer. Genial! Nach einem kleinen Nickerchen war der Regen auch vorbei und wir konnten zu einem ersten Strandspaziergang starten. Nicht, dass der Strand wirklich gross waere und der Spaziergang lange gedauert haette, aber man muss sich ja mal umschauen ;-) Neben uns sass noch ein weiteres ...

... angenehmer. Statt 2 ½ Stunden hat das Übersetzen nur ne knappe halbe Stunde gedauert. Und mit dem Speedboat hat das sogar richtig Spaß gemacht. Das konstante Geschaukele der Fahre nach Tioman war ja wirklich grauenhaft. Wir haben uns relativ schnell darauf einigen können, wer in welche Hütte geht. Wie Mädels sind in das 6-er Zimmer. Es ist das Haus mit der Palme die durch die Veranda wächst. Auch hier war alles sehr sauber ...

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. I'll stick to the plan and have an entry for everywhere we spend a night......so that's about all.

... forcing us from our comfortable seats on the street). We left and started walking around back-alleys towards our guesthouse, and when we were on the other side of the street we saw, that it just had started. Well, we went for a look and it was quite cool. They had cannons shooting paper pieces up in the air (there's a word for that in English, but I can't remember it), they had a lion dancer crew as well as dragon dancers. Gong Xi Fa Cai, next year in Helsinki, for sure ...

... both feeling a bit 'beached out' so decided to quit paradise & head back to Kuala Lumpur a day early for some beer & shopping! We arranged our ...

... they asked each other after how are you was "Are you itching? Are you itching?" Since they had come back, the 3 of them were itching like hell with newly mosquito bite looking marks... The curse of the island was still with them and I am sure that if you ask the Englishman if he still has marks he would say yes!!! I dont think that me (Maud), Henry or Jerome would recommend going on this island for idyllic holidays!!

... I spent 2 days with a crazy bunch of Irish girls in Singapore. Singapore is a great city! It is really vibrant and multicultural and a nice oasis of westernism in the middle of southeast asia (they have starbucks there!!!). So I spent a couple of days seeing the sights there and now I am on the island of Borneo, in a city called Kota Kinabalu. I hope everything is going well at home!!! I miss you all, and I miss my bathroom almost as much! Sarah