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After saying fairwell to Singapore and passing through the Malay border crossing it was over to the east coast for some island chill-time, Tioman island is about 2 hours from mainland and 1 of the finest islands in Malaysai, ellie wasn't to bothered about going but i fancied it, so off we went onto another bus from Johor 3 hours to the little town of Mersing, we spent 1 night here @ Omar's backpackers, its a bit funky but it was cheap as, there is probably better places to stay but we where just looking for some snooze-time, we payed RM10 which is 1.5 pounds, that was 1 thing i was over the moon about, the prices here are soo good, food,accom, (not beer) and so on !!, so 1 night in Mersing then on the boat to Tioman island where we would stay for a week, we didn't plan a week but we met up with another couple and from there we just got on really well, iv been wanting to do my scuba diving certification for ages and finally i managed to do it on this stunning island, we done some dell-boy trotter dealing as you do and got the course for a good rate, i think it worked out 120 quid, the place we where diving was amazing, we seen turtles, rays, barracuda, clown fish and so much more, i picked a quality place to do it, so me and our new found buddy's done the 4-day course and passed so now i wanna do loads of diving in asia before flying home, it was an intense course thou with exams and loads of theory but it was all worth it, we then had a few beers (chang beers are 6.2% and go down like a dream, so sinking a few after our scuba exams was spotty dog, we then said fairwell to our mates and decided to do a cross-island rainforrest walk for 7km, it lashed down half way but as the humidity was high the rain was just what we wanted, we seen monkeys along the way just chillin and doing there own thing, talking about monkeys we where on the beach a few days earlier when a little monkey came trekking along the beach and discovered a young girl sun-baking, so he took his chance and had her lunch bag away, he pulled it about 20 feet and started ripping into it, he was game as, some guy tried to get the bag and the monkey just had a look inside then kindly left it for him, he was a class little monkey (baboon i think), he then worked his way to the bin and done his looting, so that was it pretty much from Tioman island, its a beautiful place with loads of cheap options for accomadation and the food is good, i have been eating out brekkie,lunch,dinner and a few chang beers on top of it all and iv spent about 1 pound per meal, as for our digs it worked out just over 1 pound each per night , we opened our door and the beach was infront of us (we shared with our mates just to keep it cheap) so to dive,chill or do whatever really its an awsome place, we stayed northwest @ a place called Salang, we seen most of the island and its probably the best place to stay as there is building work in Tekek which is normally a popular place to stay, so were now heading for Kuala Lumpur only for a few days thou as we have taken a liking to islands and away from the busy city's, and now im a qualified diver i wanna do as much as possible, will upload some pics iv got loads once again.
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