K T's Blog: I love island life & snorkeling!

Tioman Island: Paya Beach Resort
12th - 14th July

Took a cab to DFS Orchard to catch our bus which leaves at 6:30am. The journey was long, took about 2 hours to reach a the first check point where we had our lunch. Continued for another 2 hours before reaching the ferry terminal. Had a 1.5 hours ferry ride before reaching our destination, Tioman Island, at around 2:30pm.

The dudes filling up their white cards.

At custom waiting for bus. (Illegal photo)

Waiting, waiting...

On the bus!

The ferry tickets and marine park reservation coupons.

On the boat! Pretty long journey but its definitely worth the while!

*Ok, I'm feeling fucked up right now cause the upload speed is fucking slow!*

And of course we checked in upon arrival. Went for some godly Ramly Burger after putting our stuffs in our room. Roamed around the resort, played a game of 3RM pool, rented our snorkeling gears and off we went to snorkel! Couldn't take underwater pictures as we didn't have any housing for our cameras. What a pity. Nevertheless we saw tons of beautiful fishes as well as sea creatures. For a moment, I couldn't believe I'm in South China Sea, hahaha!

Touch down! Island life!

Paya Beach!

Checking in.

Lobster king! Thats the biggest in the tank.

Unpacking and changing into chilling suit.

Waiting for our Ramly! The Ramly burgers back at Singapore are nothing compared to this! Their bun is so crispy... Its a big regret that we only had one...

3RM pool. 8 feet table if I'm not wrong and its in superb bad condition haha!

Even the cue ball stucks... Got to hook it out with the cue, haha.

A bug randomly flew onto Andrew's hand and being who I am, I just got to let it into my mouth!

Snorkeling took all the craps out of us, so we headed back to our room, making a mess out of it. Dripped water and sand onto the balcony of our neighbor below, haha. Went for dinner after bathing. The food were not bad, slightly better than the mixed rice stalls from our friendly coffee-shops. Slacked around, did some shopping for snacks and drinks. Wanted to sing KTV but was occupied. Went back to our room, chilled, watched their "scheduled" SVC, Harry Porter & the Order of the Phoenix on HBO! Haha, just nice as I missed this show. & of course, we switched off one by one...

Buffet Dinner! Good enough for me!

Night falls...

They are lots of cats and kittens in this resort, thats for sure!

And we saw a frog!

Day 2 greeted us with awesome sunshine! Started with a snorkeling trip at the Marine Park and a small snorkeling spot called Coral Island. Nothing much at Marine Park, just lots of fishes, but are all the same. The memorable part is when I fed the fishes with bread and all of them started attacking me. Some even tried to reach for the bread in my hands by jumping out of the sea! Scared the shit out of me.
Coral Island was much better, beautiful fishes, even saw a group of about 10 cuttlefishes chilling.

Fresh air! Can you smell it? Haha!

Mid-tide. There are real beautiful fishes and corals underneth the rocks on the left! Not forgetting scary sea urchins with the size of a head.

I wanted to go to the jungle trek so much! Looks so lovely!

Checking out the fishes.

Ripples caused by wind made it blurry, but good enough to see those corals.

Then we had lunch back at the resort, chilled, played cards and walked along the beach till evening. Nobody wants to go for another round of snorkeling with me, all said tired and boring, @#$@%! Headed back to bathe before dinner. We ordered some butter prawns and grilled lobsters, pretty damn good! Night was spent in our room again.

Played darts.

Slacking.

A lovely aunty helped us with this :D

Check out my tiny durians, ahaha!

The clearness of the water! Looks consumable huh? Haha

I was close to tear...

Yes, that little dude at the background is Kenneth, having a little private time on his own.

Do we look like we're looking for shower with those towels in our hands?

We saw a real big monitor lizard swim pass, it was close to 2 meters long, no bomb! But of course, was gone before we could take its picture :D

You can even find dinosaur's bone!

Butter prawns! Eff-ing good! Juicy as pus... ... Ahaha!

Grilled Lobsters. Regretted not trying 2 different style. Should have tried the sashimi! Arghhh!

Day 3 was the departure day. Had breakfast and checked out. Our damn boat went to almost all the jetties of Tioman Island to pick up everyone before heading back to the ferry terminal. Took about 2.3 hours? Super duper fucking long! Boarded the bus and continued our journey home. Went to watch Ice Age 3 at Cine after reaching Singapore.