Tioman Day 1

So this is the story of my trip to Tioman Islands, Malaysia.

We arrived in Tioman at around 2 pm, after a 4 hour bus ride and 2 hour ferry ride. This was the first time my wife and I took a trip as long as this together, and we must say that it was quite a new experience for us. We never had this kind of trip before, where we need to prevent our self from throwing up for six hours.
It's because the Malaysians somehow couldn't figure out how to make a straight road and made a full zig-zag road all the way, which made us feel like stucking our whole hand into our throat.

But luckily we got a better bus, with better seats and bigger legs area. Unfortunately, in Singapore and Malaysia, a better bus also means bus with crazy air conditioner level that can be set to Antarctic mode.

However when we arrived at Tioman, we suddenly forgot about the freezing ride and we were step on the new land and feel our body filled with a brand new feeling. A feeling of being burned alive.
Tioman was so hot this time of year. We put two inch thick of sun block and still felt like our skin was pinched by burning torches. So we saw that there were only a few people playing on the beach.
And as we always had a simple rule for being under such a harsh sunlight (which is: Don't!), we decided to do what we always do best: We ate.

Lucky for us, there were a lot of eating places that serves Malaysian's trademark. such as ice kachang, ramly's burger, mee goreng, all served with flies flying around the food, as usual. However, the food there tasted good. Even the buffet diner and breakfast were excellent.

Afternoon was free time for us. We just took stroll along the beach, took some pictures and enjoy the nice breeze as well as the growing skin cancer from the UV ray. The view was nice and the sunset was breathtaking. So we just enjoyed it and relaxed ourself.

When I visited Redang island a few years back, there were unfortunately only a few things that we could do at night, such as walking on the beach, visited the nearby resort, etc. But when the night comes at Tioman, I could say that it was different; there was absolutely nothing to do here.
There was insufficient light on the beach. So we just stayed in our room and watched TV, which most of the time showed a classic TV program called static.

We stayed at Paya Beach Resort. Our room itself met the Malaysian standard of comfortable hotel, which basically meant it looked good and had a hygiene level of a cockroach. However, I expected worse.

Finally we ended the day early because we felt tired burned by the sun the whole day, and tomorrow we need to start early for breakfast and snorkeling trip, and more breakfast.