What's up with Fi?: Mersing-Tioman-Melaka

TC and i did some how planned for a beach or island quick holiday but didn't really plan where exactly... and since i really wanted to go to Tioman, we decided to go there... we googled and found the routes to take driving there, and we managed to reach Mersing...

we left saturday early morning - estimated bout 5 hrs to get there... and when we did at 8.30+ am we found out that we missed the one and only boat to tioman.. damn.. so.. what the hell to do in mersing the whole day? so near and yet so far... it's the monsoon season so, most of the hotels are closed and boat rides are once a day...

seemed that there's alot of hotels in mersing too... and the journey to those hotels are weird too.. you gotta go through kampung villages, one lane dirt road, passing through paddy fields.. like if there's no signboards you have no idea that there could be a hotel/resort nearby... interesting.. very impresive too!

so we found Fishing Bay Resort and checked in, eventhough it's about 11am.. they checked us in cause it's quite empty and its off peak season - the beach that this resort is on is Pantai Buih... why buih (bubbles) cause when it's mating season, a certain type of crab will start mating and when they mate they make bubbles... so, just imagine the whole beach u see bubbles.. tht's why they call it Pantai Buih... but when we were there.. it's not the mating season... so no bubbles to see

once we've checked in, we walked around the area and saw this bridge out to see, guess it's for fishing.. true enough there were 3 locals trying to fish for something but the whole hr or so we were there, they didn't catch anything... view was wonderful, fishing village type of scene.. so different from the life in the city

Fishing Bay Resort came with breakfast... so cute eh! heheh

so after breakfast we managed to be on time to take the one and only boat to Tioman at 9 something in the morning.. it was packed!!! but we had tickets already so, we have our seats.. the boat is like the boats u take to langkawi so it's good - air con, tv...

the trip there was abit rocky, half way to the island both of us felt sick and knowing TC was a sea-person (who loves the sea) who actually felt abit sick, that shows that the boat was really rocking!

finally we reached the shore and i just fell in love with the water there... its so blue like the sky and TC told me that when it's blue - it's can-see feet water!! i went yeay!!!! finally! hahhaha...

so, we checked in (Berjaya Tioman Beach Resort) , early again and they upgraded our rooms.. heheh cause it was monsoon season and it's off peak.. so double yeay!! and quickly changed and went to soak in the pool first...

i know afternoon sun is bad but i really want my tan.. it's been a while since i had some colour on me.... so soaked abit in the pool and also had lunch by the pool... tht's life isn't it? heheheheh

then after lunch we decided to check out the beach.. wanted to go to another island for snorkeling but we missed the boat - we were having lunch.... so we just strolled along the beach and TC went off alone snorkeling in the middle of the sea... me - still learning to snorkel.... so what i did in the mean time? enjoying the can-see-feet water! .... u know even when i'm chest deep in the sea, i CAN STILL SEE MY FEET!!! yes.. it's THAT clear! heheheh

walk way by the beach - private road in the hotel

the coral and the crabs that stuck to it - TC got it for me :)

after spending the whole day at the beach, i finally got my tan.. and after nearly a month, i still have abit only.. my tan doesn't lasts... dinner was nice, they had the usual in-house band playing, a few hotel guests dining and drinking and just enjoying the holiday and both of us were just quiet enjoying our dinner... hahaha we were sooo hungry!!

slept early as we got to get up early the next morning to catch the 7.30am boat back to Mersing... terrible la... imagine u getting up at 6.30am to pack and get ready to sit on a lil shuttle to the jetty to get on a boat for an hr+ ride to mersing.... sigh....

found out that we could sit at the roof of the boat for fresh air... think if we sat inside, we would get sick again.. but the weather's good, so the ride was not that rocky... slept most of the time cause i was soo sleepy... heheheheh....

when we reached mersing... it was about lunch... wanted to try mersing seafood but somehow ppl there don't really eat lunch so early... in the end we ate their chicken rice... sorry to tell u TC, that, i think it was just so-so... not that great... guess i'm too trained for the Penang taste.. hahaha...

was to go back to KL, but the day was still young and i didn't feel like going home - yet... so i thought hey! y not go to melaka for cendol?!! since it was on the way.... we made the detour and first stop was the Bee Muzium... hahah that was an experience.. didn't know that there was so many types of bees and many types of honey... was quite an interesting find... thanks to TC...

after the bee tour, we headed to jonkers walk and went straight to the cendol place... melaka is HOT... hotter than tioman, hotter than kl and even hotter than penang... and i thought penang was hot! hahahha... we were there for cendol and that's what we got.... didn't do much shopping but it did bring back memories on my trips to melaka....