Salmon Creek Motel Johor Bahru

... t see too much trouble filling in a few days here. After just hanging by the pool this morning we decided to walk down the beach and suss out some of the other resorts. The one next door seems fairly flash and closed, the one further down is quite untidy but has cheap drinks which were very welcome on a hot day, then there were some Chalets which were truly awful so it looks like we have the pick of the bunch. Walking back the most enormous thunderstorm came up and the ...

... architecture it was a pretty place to hang for two days while we ate cheap chinese and baked like potatoes! now sitting in a place called Mersing, heading to tropical island Tioman which apparently is where the shot the old movie South Pacific (it doubled as Bali Hai) i mean i aint seen it, but it sounds pretty. much love to all, hope you are all well, please write back and let us know how YOU are doing!!! Mike & Donz xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

... for miles even though it was cloudy and you could get an appreciation for just how claustrophobic a city it was with so many buildings crammed together in a not particularly organised fashion. Further out you could see mountains and hills which looked great and I definitely would have explored them if I'd had a few more days. It was soon time to head back on the bus to JB so we got 3 Dunkin Donut's each (our evening meal) and got the 6pm bus. I slept for ...

... Bahru. Kesan pertama gw pas nyampe Johor Bahru, beda jauh dengan Singapore yang bersih dan terawat. Johor Bahru, yah walaupun nggak kumuh banget seperti di Petak Sembilannya Glodok Jakarta, agak agak sedikit 'unclean' degh!. Sayangnya gw hanya sempat ngeliat sebagian kota Johor Bahru. Mallnya tetep mendingan walaupun setipe dengan Gajah Mada Plaza, tapi jauh lebih nyaman. Trus disini juga jual DVD bajakan lho ...

... 2mio inhabitants), so you can walk to almost everywhere you want/need to go. Next to the Towers was the biggest mall of the city, which is quite upscale, but has nice shops and could be worth a later shopping-trip. While walking back to Chinatown, we passed the financial center of KL, with nice clubs and restaurants, but it was mostly deserted. We also took a walk through Little India, with its bazaar and indian restaurants. I never ate much indian food back home, but on ...

... packages there, then the next day found neighbouring Tioman Reef Divers from the good old Lonely Planet Book & they were excellent! Lovely people ...

... but actually no, they never came. Only one boat in the whole weekend with 4 Singaporian and 1 Dutch couple... Mmmmm... Nevermind, they thought; it will still be good! One island for their own in the middle of the Malaysian high touristic season as well as Malaysian holidays, unforseen but brillant!!! They went on a few exploration trips around the island over weekend but soon realised that the island, the ...

The worst bus journey yet - as if the seats were designed as a form of torture, insistant 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.

... We head to the ticket counter and find more bad news...the flight we need (to Tawau) only leaves on Monday, Wednesdays, and Fridays and today is Tuesday. There is a flight that leaves for Sandakan in the next little while but even though Sandakan is in Sabah, Borneo it is a good 5 hour drive from there to our destination, Semporna. We have no choice...Sandakan it is and of course we loose most of the money we spent on the Tawau flight. I am ...

... he wanted. He called the hotel chef and him make a special Ikam Bakar (Barbecued seafood), as they didn't have it on their menu during the days we were there. We were quite impressed with the whole hotel management, as this chef must have been exceptionally busy that night as the Crown Prince visited with an entourage for a Rotary meeting. We watched them enter (everything came to a stand still) and ...