Right before the start of the jungle trekking up the hill to the waterfall...
At the pool bar@ Berjaya Hotel, Tioman (taken by Feli, above)
Our guide tapping rubber tree (above)
Coral reef & fish @ Coral Island (taken by Tiff - above)
Another coral fish @ Coral Island (taken by Tiff, above)
Isn't the corals @Coral Island beautiful? (Pix taken by Tiff, above)
Our boat taken from Twin Island waters (above)
Our little family @ small waterfall after jungle trekking (above)
Bert @ waterpool, made by tiny waterfall (above)
Sand pattern @ bottom of sea @ Berjaya Tioman hotel (above)
Bert & I underwater @ swimming pool @ Berjaya Hotel, Tioman (above)
We had a fantastic holiday in Tioman. Bert & I went there 14 years ago. The trip was our wedding anniversary cum holiday with the children. It's the first time to Tioman for them. We did many 1st for this trip.
It was the 1st time we travelled there via a tiny plane with just 2 big engines, 2 smaller engines & 4 side propellers, carrying at most 70 passengers!
The beach wasn't a disappointment though...no fish nor sea urchins..only lots of broken dead corals :(
Next day, we went island hopping to 3 islands for snorkeling! Coral Island and Renggis Island were the best in terms of the types and sizes of the corals and the number of fish. The 2nd island, (I think it's called the Twin) wasn't comparable. We took lots of videos and Tiffy managed to take some pixs.
The 3rd day, we went Jungle trekking and visited the small waterfall. It was a nightmare trip for the children and me. We slipped several times. There's lots of obstacles like huge rocks to climb over and non-existent nor safe path to tread on. There were ropes in several spots for us to cling onto to go up the slope. When we finally got to our destination, there were lots of HUGE damsel flys walking on the surface of the water at the waterfall. The guide drank directly from the falling water! The water gushing down was COLD! Very refreshing actually. I dreaded the thought...we were to go back the same way we came up? My worse nightmare came true! Whilst we were climbing up, there was rain, so you can imagine how slippery the going down was! There were dead leaves on the path, so everything was slippery!
Anyway, we made it! It's a feather in our cap! On the way, we saw a cotton plant (we never saw one before, so it was an eye-opener), 1 type of poison ivy (but whose roots is the antidote to its owe poison which is found on its leaves), a ratan tree (which is not cultivated but found only in jungles!), a rubber tree which the guide tapped for us to see, and a plant which is used for beauty lotion and doubles up as protection against the poison ivy, and a HUGE tree trunk that we can pound on for people to hear miles away, if you happen to be lost, a gigantic white ant hill with live ants still inside, and animals like the squirrel and chameleon.
It was an experience which we won't want to repeat. However, the snorkelling trip is really fantastic! I would say that the jungle trekking was also an unforgettable trip for us, as we did learn lots of things that we would never have seen before. Although the waterfall was considered small, it wasn't man-made lah!
Love Theresa
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