On arrival at Mersing, as our boat was many hours late the tide was low so there was no chance of our boat docking so lots of little rib boats had to come and collect us and our bags. This involved a long wait and viewing lots of Chinese/Malaysians being seasick... Not a pleasant sight! Finally, once we were on land we headed to Omars Backpackers as recommended by Lonely Planet for being a 'tidy, clean and social backpackers pad'.  Omar seemed to be a nice pers...

Our journey to Tioman was a tortuous journey, we were both tired from the lack of sleep, the Ferry was absolutely freezing due to the a/c system! On approaching Pulau Tioman we felt as if we were approaching the haunted island in Pirates of the caribbean with it's eerie fog surrounding the island. The boat missed our stop, as obviously the crew must have asked what stop people wanted and we just 'ignored them'. Nick got into a strop and Helen was trying to be co...