Mersing & Pulau Tioman

Hehe, I finally found cheap internet, so I write a bit more :)
yesterday i left Pulau Kecil and took a night bus to Mersing, also in the east cost but further south and closer to singapore. i was happy to get a night bus, what saved me a night and time, but it was a crappy bus. the last jetty from the island leaves 4pm, my bus was supposed to leave 9.15pm and i had to go to a busstation half an hour away from the port. so far i thought it is ok, i have a book and just read. usually i get the ticket at the busstation because i can ask directly when the departure times are, i see the busses and the different companies. since i wanted a night bus and was stuck on a wonderful island i decided to book there without knowing what i get because usually night seats are sold out very fast. there they sad it is transnational bus - a cheap and secure line regulated by the government. (that was the one with the 3 seats only, too :) ) anyways being on the mainland again, the ticket man brought me to the busstation. when i arrived i already saw that i am now very very very local! it was a bus halt, not a station. anyways since i had the ticket i waited and read my book. in the beginning i was the only one, around 8 to 10pm it was crowded, people arriving and leaving with several long distance busses. at 9pm also a counter there opened where i asked about my bus... arrival time on schedule was here 10.30... and since it was a bus coming from kota bharu it arrived around 11pm... quite a time of waiting. but i was asked so many times were I go, where I am from, if i am lost by the waiting people around me and also the stopping busdrivers... i must have been the attraction - a foreigner in a place where i guess there arent that many foreigners seen and especially not at night ;)
yes, eventually i arrived save. i only hated stopping every half an hour, turning the light on and people hop on and off the bus. so my sleep wasnt that copious. and in the busses they always turn on the a/c that i really wait when hell freeze is over. this night i needed to ask the driver to open the luggage storage once more, so i could get my sleeping bag... since long pants and a pullover was not enough :)

i arrived at 7.15am in mersing. the whole town was still sleeping. only this meditation group doing its morning training on the beach with the rising sun in its back. so i walked into town to get some food and internet just to find out that everything openes at 9.00am. so i went to an indian food stall and had roti telur for breakfast - kind of a pancake with egg and indian dip. well, and now it is 11am... i had breakfast, got some supplies for the island and am sitting in the internet cafe.

weather is beautiful. about 30 degree celcius and the sky starts to clear up. i try to catch one of these many ferry boats to go to Pulau Tioman, the biggest island of malaysia's east coast and rich of nature, jungle and beautiful beaches.
on friday i head to singapore, where i will be until the end of august.

i will upload photos on the weekend since i am not sure about the safety here.

Hope everybody is fine, and happy late birthday to my friends i couldn't reach in time!!!!