Hotel Havanita Mersing

... back to town once I’d had enough in the 35 degree heat. In the afternoon I visited the local dive shop and signed up for my open water course, something I had wanted to do for years that I finally summed up the courage and inspiration to do!

In the evening I kicked some ass in 500 against some unsuspecting Europeans and sipped a rum cocktail out of a coconut. Whilst only a simple night in the tropics, I was on top of the world and generally ...

After a few days in the rainforest (sweating profusely with the extreme heat & humidity) we decided we would head down to Tioman Island.
We took an apparently air-conditioned train – which felt like we hadn't left the rainforest it was so hot! Although, by comparison to our train experience to Pak Chong in Thailand this was pure luxury!
We spent the night Kluang before continuing the next day onto Mersing where we would take a ferry to ...

... a longboat and explored some caves. We got to see some Thai Boxing here too! After Krabi we got a ferry down to Ko Lanta, an island of long beaches where there is little to do apart from.... you guessed it .... sweet FA!!! caught the rugby while it was on, Wales lost to Ireland so big boo for Mike and after four days we decided we could no longer be ***** with Thailand as there wasn't much left to do! So we left the island by minivan which boards a car ...

... preocuapado por las maletas no queriamos que estan estuvieran todas mojadas. Tuvimos suficiente tiempo para comer algo cuando estabamos en el puerto esperando por el ferry vimos un grupo de Japoneses, esto nos dio un poco de tranquilidad al menos no somos los unicos que vamos a Tioman. El viaje dura una hora y media. Cuando nos ibamos acercando ala isla la vista fue fenomenal que belleza, puedes ver el agua azul la arena blanca y la selva. Un paraiso terrenal ...

Unfortunately, our time in beautiful Malaysia is running out faster than we thought. We wanted to go to Pulau Tioman, an island here on the east coast, but the weather (high waves and strong winds) prevents any ferries of going there. There are some other nice islands accessible from Mersing, but the accomodation there seems to be quite expensive, so we decided to go ahead and travel to Singapore tomorrow. We ended up staying in Kuala Lumpur for six nights. Regardless of the ...

Hey everyone! i finally found sometimes out of work to share my journey in Asia. It has been quite a while since i settle in Singapore. For the last news, i have changed company but still working in the same position: technical specialist. to sum up, i do support, help desk for the people of the office. I just started last week so i cannot say if the job is exciting or not. This blog is about traveling. Even though i didn't find enough time to explore the richness of ...

... i managed to drop my camera onto a Stingrays head by accident - i don't know who was more frightened, me or the Ray! I was only about 1 ft above it ...

... have a rocky beach in front of you and no flip flop, that the light is falling, that you are swimming once again with the tiny, little microscopic jelly fish... BUT they made it! Everyone was ok! If you are wondering what happened to the 3rd person, he didn't come. He was still on shore worrying about his lost companions... He even ventured out onto the beach to se if he could see them but with no success ...

... everyone there! The place that I stayed was called 'My Friend's Place', and it was there that I learned my limits as far as comfort is concerned. My room had a fan and a bed and a bathroom. In the bathroom was a toilet, and a showerhead sticking out of the wall. No shower stall, no bathtub, no sink! just a showerhead, oh yeah, and a bucket (?). I could've sat on the toilet and taken a shower at the same time (I didn't). I learned that I don ...

... swim for it if they set fire to it...? Go figure! After an hour or so of ****ing around with the fuel, I was shown to my beach hut, which was almost brand new, and introduced to the staff. It was then that I was told I was the ONLY guest in the resort, and would I like to join the staff for dinner. Sounded perfect to me! The food was, and still is the nicest feed I've ever had. Real Malaysian curry is to die for. I just couldn't get ...