Tioman Island

From Tioman

Just got back from a three day mini-holiday to Tioman Island, which is located off the Eastern coast of peninsular Malaysia. No phone or internet coverage where we were staying so this is my first opportunity to blog for nearly four days. We could not get accommodation at our preferred resort, Bagus Place Retreat, for the first night of our trip so had to stay at another much inferior place towards the North end of the island. Once we got there, Bagus Place turned out to be as good as advertised on their website, with delightful individualistic accommodation, catering for a maximum of five parties. We were staying in the Boat House, which as you can see, was built in the style of a boat, inside and out. Add to that good food, friendly staff, beautiful beach and warm sea, and this adds up to pretty much the ideal get-away-from-it-all holiday.

I had originally chosen Tioman because it is supposed to have some of the best scuba diving sites in Malaysia. In the end, we decided not to go diving because of the limited time we had on the island. Instead, we went snorkeling off the end of the Bagus Place jetty. There was some interesting coral to be seen, but the visibility was rather poor so not ideal condition. The most entertaining spectacle was seeing shoals of small fish swimming in the shallows and being chased by a pack of reef sharks.

Today we had a rather wet boat ride through choppy seas to the airport at Tekek, before catching our short flight back to KL.

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