Our final stop in Malaysia was Tioman Island, off the east coast of the Peninsula. We were meeting up with some friends we’d met on the train in Sapa, Vietnam, called Tim and Lies. Tim manages the dive school and Lies is now well on her way to getting her Dive Master certificate. What a wonderful place. If it hadn’t been for the incessant rain, again…
Pilots need a steady hand to successfully land the plane here; first a low entry under the cloud cover almost skimming the surface of the water, fly directly at the mountain, then Continue Reading »
Borneo activity number 2; scuba diving one of the Top 10 destinations in the world. Bring it on! The amazing thing about traveling around this part of the world is that you can get any flight you want, at bargain basement prices. Our one-hour flight to Semporna (Tawau) was delayed by 6 hours so rather than hang around waiting for it, we switched airlines and bought ourselves a last-minute ticket for 30 quid each. A breath of fresh air.
The only highlight of diving Sipidan Island off the east coast of Borneo is Continue Reading »
There are so many beautiful island to visit in Thailand it’s hard to figure out just which ones you should go to when you only have a few weeks. You need a reason to go from one to the next. Some choose the full moon, others the beaches or rock climbing, we chose diving.
Our first stop was spent on the tiny island of Ko Tao, once an underdeveloped little dot at the end of Samui and Pang Nang it has now become completely over run with hundreds of dive operators but it is stunning. For the first time since leaving home 5 months ago we slept in the same bed for more than 3 nights. Bliss. Unloading everything we had in our bags was very therapeutic and we made a little home in our hut near the beach – a refreshing change from continuously moving on every couple of days and at last we were on the beach.
I learnt to dive, and both of us took our advanced diving courses too with the help of Continue Reading »
