Salang Sayang Resort Pulau Tioman

... stayed on has mainly backpackers so everyone is chatty, and when you walk down the path everyone says high and you recognise faces. The locals are great to such nice people, alway helpful never out for what they can get.<br> <br>Our room was great really spacious and had it's own bathroom complete with a frog. Now this frog drove us mad as there was no way for it to get in to the bathroom. The drain was covered there was no windows or gaps for this frog ...

... chop them down) and we are shown into the Serang Seaview Villa. As with our Hotel room in Italy this place is bigger than our house, with private terrace and pool overlooking the sea... we didnt imagine leaving our room much over the next 5 days!<br>We didn't. Apart from meals on the jetty in the ocean. We also had a romantic 7 course private dinner on the beach with champagne (champers courtesy of Kelly and Luke ...

... the supposing &#8220;wild&#8221; island. Well, it&#8217;s beautiful but don&#8217;t think here are no turists there as there are plenty of them. The island is surrounded by a few villages where you can find cheap accommodation (~100 RM for a double room), more backpacker style but generally ok. There are a couple of resorts with rooms for fancier people that cost 3-4 time as the rooms in the villages. Really not recommended, the food is better there ...

... at the beach bar sat on reclining chairs with cold beers, snuggling bare feet into the sun warmed sand, stretching out toes to reach for the coolness just an inch below the surface. Travellers tales from new friends told as the sun changed from yellow, to orange to red, slowly immersing itself into the sea. The sky slowly slipped under the indigo blanket of the night and diamonds claimed their place under the watchful gaze of ...

... ages before you can feel all the water around you. But this was great!<br><br>Also we went snorkelling again...and the fish and corals we saw where again really good...so colourful and big and so many, and just so different to anything I've ever seen. <br><br>The food was also really good...we had taken some extra cash as previously on the islands prices had been quite expensive...but for some ...

... cove with the whitest sand possible, and again, picture-postcard green/blue clear water. <br>Lunch at Salang resort, and the realisation that we had made a good choice with Paya &#8211; Salang was dirty, far too touristy and obviously one of the places to be if you were young and/or wished some sort of night-life. Lunch with our new best-friends from Australia, ironically Perth, (and Sydney ...

... we used the current to take us over the top so we could see the deck<br>and all the nets and ropes and stuff. The current was so strong that<br>we couldnt stay too long otherwise we would get swept away so the<br>three of us faced into the current, kicked only a little bit and went<br>for a ride back to Soyak rocks where we explored the reef. Paul found<br>us this huge turtle and we watched it grazing for food and just<br>chilling in the water. It was pretty amazing. We also ...

... boat back to<br>Salang. There was a thunderstorm in the hills and so was a bit eerie<br>and the sea was a bit choppy which made a fun boat ride. We nearly<br>rolled it once and i think the driver got a bit scarred cause he<br>backed off immediately after that. Clayton also didnt like it very<br>much either being from London. Once back on land we went for a swim<br>and then into the dive shop to see what we could organise for the<br>Advanced course ...