After a bit more than a month backpacking around staying usually 3-4 days per place, now at Tioman the plan was to stop for one week, just relax and do nothing. Tioman is a duty free island at East coast of Malaysia which is mostly known on its diving opportunities and that is the main reason people go there, like ours because Heidi was doing her open water license on diving there. Or other one is escape from routines and duty free products.
First teaser was duty free products but for that there was problem: in chalets where we were staying there was no fridge... which means no drinks in cold, luckily there is a solution for every problem: buy something that tastes good doenst need to be cold and not even (necessarily) mixed with cold drinks = Whiskey. So it happened that we bought 1L bottle of Jameson, i put on my new flower shirt which im really proud of, and we did some irish coffees or enjoyed whiskey straight. Somehow first day passed by very fast and in very good mood.
Soon (already next day) we realized that there is really that many things to do at Tioman so the mainly focus of the days were little bit walking around or actually I could say back'n'forward the only road that went through the village or along the beach. And as soon as I got tired of walking, I went either to sit at my chalets terrace or lying on a hammock in lovely beac cafe enjoying fresh juices. Not a bad life after all.
But again doing that few days life started to be boring , which is actually quite horrible so say... One evening I met group of Malaysians/Singaporeans who were going diving a next day and told me that I should join in. First I hesitated it for a moment as I havent been diving before, but as there were other first timers also, I thought that alright lets give it a go. So I did and tried diving for a first time: It was very interesting experience even that at the beginning it felt really weird to breath while being underwater, but yes I could try it again someday.
Have you ever heard someone claiming that “world is a small place.“ I realized it once again as two different people who I met in Cameron Highlands arrived to Tioman during the time I was there. Unfortunately there was no time to meet both of them, as one of them was living other side of island, but one of them yes. So on my last day I met Julia and few friends she met on a boat on the way to island. We went to spend a beach day, original was to go to Monkey bay but we stopped to a small beach strip and we were the only people in there. I havent ever been good on spending beach day as sun doesnt like me because it always burns me and so did it happen again, luckily not very badly thought. So day turned towards evening and at evening I went to lie down on my favourit hammock and enjoyed sunset at the beach before I needed to pack my backpack again and early morning (6:30am ferry) start travelling to Singapore.
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