Tioman Trip - Salang (Day 1)

Day 1 (2-4/4/2010)
As usual, set off from woodlands centre 5.30am.
The traffic is very heavy even in the early morning as everybody rush early to Malaysia for the long weekend. We have 21 of us.

Mersing Ferry Terminal
Usually we only took about 1.5 hours to reach but this time we missed our first ferry at 8.30am and went for our breakfast while waiting for the next ferry at 10.30am.

Salang Ferry Terminal (Tioman)

Had our lunch at one of the cafe and Ramly burger at the roadside stall.

This is more commercial than the Juara, few shops and cafe around and 1 pub opens till 1am.

Tioman is one of the duty free island in Malaysia, beer and liquor is cheap.$10RM for 3 calsberg. $65RM for baileys. Finding ice is a problem here as most cafe don't sell ice. we search the whole island finally only found one stall who sell ice, 1.25litre bottle of ice for $2RM.

GG pose

The K-Pop

Even rental of snorkelling mask is slightly more ex here.

$7RM- $10RM. Juara offers $10RM with mask and life jacket. Weixing got a sea cucumber again, this type is not edible. GG saw sea urchin too...

Sunset

We had blackout a few times, totally no electricity in the whole island. so dark that we can't even see our own hands in front of us. And there's no reception at all in this part of the island except using M1 service.

There is totally no lights adn we need to place candle on our table. And our aircon only manage to operate at 1am when the generator starts again.

Tioman Trip- Salang (Day 2)

We went to a few spot this time, monkey bay, coral island, marine park etc...
Not as shiok as our previous time as most spot are for tourists. We prefer the time we went in Juara, the boatman brought us some unique places where we can see giant turtle, black tip shark, squids and very big groupa....

GG saw promfret this time. We add in waterfall in our itinery, additional $50RM each.

Tioman Trip- Salang (Day 3)

Day 3
Check out time 12noon.

We went to the one of the cafeteria to have our lunch before depart.
Thai hor fun and Tom Yum Soup. Actually their Tze char still not too bad, each cost around $6-8RM.

Last shot at our chalet. Triple room for $150SGD each. Twin room @ $160SGD each.3D 2N including snorkelling trip, transfer by fast ferry at Mersing and 2 breakfast, 1 lunch, 1 dinner and 1 BBQ dinner.

Group photo

Before leaving Malaysia, Nani recommended us very nice butter crayfish at Taman Sri Tebrau.

Really very good and pricey too...............we split to 2 tables. Ordered Lala, steamed groupa fish, butter crayfish, veg, deep fried sotong, crabs, steamed clams, fried venison etc...

9 of us and our dinner cost us $460RM, not cheap consider in a hawker centre in Malaysia.We bought some Nonya Kueh back too, cheap and nice, each cost only $0.50-0.60RM. Especially the steamed cake, extremely soft and nice...

How many wrong words or wrong spelling can you spot?

Juara Beach @ Tioman 24-26 May 2009

HBA gathering again!
We start off from Woodland Centre 6am in the morning.
Reached Mersing jetty around 8.20am. Since our departure is 10.30am, we took our breakfast in R&R Plaza.
Destination: Juara Beach
The only village on the eastern side of Tioman Island, Juara arguably has the best ebach onTioman and the only sunrise over the open water of the South China Sea. Tranquil and beautiful.
Accomodation: Juara Mutiara Beach Resort
The only resort with sea front view and was operated by a Malay family. If prefer Chinese operator, you may try Juara Beach Resort. Location will be at the end of the beach.


It took us 3hrs boast ride to reach Juara Beach, Juara Mutiara sent their private ferry to fetch us. 10 of us, Nani, Jasmine Choong, Sani, Helmi, June, Joe Leow, Steve, Serene Goh, Darren Chan and me.

The package including 5 meals, day trip to snorkelling, accomodation cost $330RM each. We upgrade our BBQ dinner, addtional crabs, prawns, lamp chops cost each of us addtional $15RM.
During night time, the sky is full of twinkle twinkle stars and the guys are arguing which is the northern stars.
Took some pic using raw image, during dawn and when drizzling. Rooster crows every morning and evening. No internet, no TV in the rooms, no newspaper, is a world of it's own.

1st day, the guys booked a fishing boat out for night fishing for $400RM, that's was really a small pathetic boat. It is dangerous to fish in the night, it is total darkness.
We have so much fun on the 2nd day trip to snorkelling, our package was only entitled to 2 spots, the boatman was nice and bring us to 5 spots (maybe because the guys treat the boatman some beers).
This was the best snorkelling i ever been, we saw lots huge and different corals, black tip shark, sting rays, turtle (1m long), squids, scissor fish, parrot fish etc.... After our day trip, we back to beach for our volleyball & soccer game:)

3rd day, we took 20mins by 4WD to ferry terminal in Tekek village. As weather is bad, the ferry was delayed by 1.5hrs. And before coming to Singapore, we dropped by Johore for dinner.

Value for money and fun trip of course!