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Tioman Day 1

Tuesday, October 10th, 2006

What a dreadful night. As we settled down for bed the maintenance guys turned up erecting scaffolding at one end of the building, belt sanding the floor at the other end and taking building materials into the building opposite. Complaints ensued and after a very long negotiation we were moved into two adjoining rooms in [...]

Mersing and Pulau Tioman

Monday, October 9th, 2006

We had the delight of a 7am taxi ride to Kuantan with a great local taxi driver. Another font of knowledge and a hoot as well. Dropped at the bus station with time to spare we then walked past abandoned food halls and outdoor markets (because of Ramadan) in search of a chinese food court [...]

Cherating Batik

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

Having promised the kids that we wouldn’t make them travel for two consecutive days, and knowing that the beach held no special delights we headed off to one of the batik schools. Found one closed but the other, Matahari, was open. The guy in charge, only 16 years old, was phenomenal at helping us and [...]