*After i realize i have so many rubbish to talk about, i decide to divide this post to few entries.*
Since the uncle claim wanna take legal action against me (sue me la) so i really think i should write something about Tioman Island myself.
Assuming you knew our itinerary at Tioman, i'll share my thought and feelings in these entries (as ailing said).
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The bus journey to Mersing on 30th June was awful, Mr.driver kept the radio turned on all the way from Puduraya to Mersing. The seat was uncomfortable as well. We had barely enough of sleep in the bus. Anyway, we reached Mersing safely at 4.30am (thanks God?)
Ferry to Tioman Island was scheduled at 7.30am, had to wait few hours before we board. So, we killed time play card (except mun ping, she don't know how to play this one). Of course, we were not gambling, otherwise, i lost my money before i reach Tioman. lol.
It took us 2 hours (ferry) before we reached Salang village- the village we stayed at Pulau Tioman- it located at northernmost point of the island. It was a raining morning, we walked to Salang Indah Resort's reception, paid the bill and collect our keys and kettles (collected some towels later on) before we walked to our chalets.
After settled down ourselves, we'd lunch at a restaurant. Played Scrabble (borrow from the restaurant) after our lunches served. Was the very first time i played such game, the rules and scores draw my attention to the game and i think i'm addicted to it now. lol
Anyway, i think we had had some nap after the lunch (okay, i forgot where and what were we doing after the lunch) and then decided go for jungle trekking around 3pm. So, five of us (wei pien enjoyed his time at room) went and ask the receptionist how's the jungle trekking things would be...
'ada jungle trekking di sini?'
'ada'
'perlu bayar berapa untuk setiap orang?'
'tak perlu bayar, jalan sendiri'
'har? kalau sesat macam mana?'
'tak akan sesat, ikut kabel elektrik itu saja'
'oooo...'
I thought i read something about GUIDE when i surf the net before we went to Tioman (never mind) and i can't believe none of us asked how long the journey will take us (which made me keep on mumble later on)
Anyway, we walked to the end of the seaside from our chalet and climb some steps to the edge of the jungle. The path was slippy, mun ping and looh tchuin quit before we walked further. So left lee fu, wei keat and i continued our journey to Monkey bay (route: Salang beach to Monkey bay)
After don't-know-how-long, we saw 2 girls (finally, there's somebody in the jungle) walked from the opposite way and told us that it'd took them 45 minutes walked from Monkey bay. And they saw a snake somewhere! (python? i forgot) Looked at what we'd brought with us: 2 umbrella, 2 cameras and a 500ml mineral water. THAT's ALL! Can't believe i go jungle trekking like i'm going for shopping...zzz. Since we were about half-way of our journey, we decided to move on... tears almost came out from my eyes when i heard there's snake. Nothing i can do except watched my steps (felt regret already for being so brave and adventurous)
After another don't-know-how-long, i was exhausted, the guys seem okay. I'd already ignored the snake thing (who cares!) and the only thing in my mind was 'get me out of this jungle!'. Kept on walking and walking, we saw some giant rocks, amazed me! Unfortunately we didn't take any picture of it, too busy to catch the journey.
Finally, we reached Monkey bay after ~1hour 30minutes. You can't tell how excited I was! There was nobody run any resort business (or any other business) at the bay but there are some pondok built solely for stay-a-night purpose for those who trek at the island. The seaside is okay, better than salang village's. We stayed about 30minutes at the bay and had to rush back to Salang beach before sunset.
Since it's a bay and nobody live there, don't expect there's any boat or ferry (or whatever transport) took us back, which simply means we'd to walk back, go thro' all the path again! My tears almost came out for the second time and i kept on mumble for not to walk back. Luckily lee fu found a stick which made my journey back to Salang became easier and the very first thing we did when we reached back Salang was look for 100Plus. I did not faint throughout the journey although i looked dying (just in case that someone tells you any other version of the jungle trekking than this one. lol) Anyway, it was an amazing journey and i 'll still can't believe i made it!
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while waiting for us back from jungle trekking, mun ping and looh tchuin spent time at the seaside and went for swimming in late evening. Took our dinner at 7pm, the restaurant is facing seaside, so we able to see sunset while having dinner (but it was a cloudy evening). That's a lot of cats at the island, everywhere, not to mention the restaurant too and they love to 'disturb' us while we'd our meals. Mun ping learned to sit with her leg cross on her seat for 'avoiding' those cats. Cats loves wei keat the most and lee fu the least.
After dinner was another round for card game and UNO. The guys were really 'good' in teaching mun ping and i played UNO and caught us for forgot saying 'UNO'. Devil...
That's all for our first day spent at Tioman Island :)
Waiting for ferry which so-call to depart at 7.30am... so while waiting, those Gamblers start to itch their hands...
The Salang Jetty... 
well... our "Hotel"...
Victory... 
This is what you'll see at the end of our tracking journey... 
