Perhentian Island (Small)

Just came back from an island where my sister is working at. Great holiday and great people.

Was very surprised to see that the majority of the people/tourist on the island are westerners. Over the 3 nights of stay, I've met less than 10 Chinese/Malay/Indian. Wow! That's the closest you can get without having to travel to their countries. But of course they are not all from the same countries. But in general, they are warm people.

You do see some though whom were only warm to the people of their own. Will pretend that you are invisible when they have people of the same colour around them. But a total change of attitude when they need favours from you. I guess this does not apply only to the "angmohs". I'm sure they are people like that everywhere regardless of race or religion.

To go to the island, we had to travel by bus for about 7-8 hours, then another 30 mins by boat. There's another faster alternative which is by plane. An hour or so of flight, another an hour or two of road trip then same amount of time for the boat ride. Of course, travelling by air is much more expensive too.

The bus ticket cost 30.80 and the boat ride is 30 bucks (one way). All in, 60.80 to reach the island. Air ticket alone is about 100 bucks, plus the taxi fare of about maybe 50 bucks and 30 bucks for boat ride. Total of 180 bucks for travelling by air compared to 60.80 by bus. That's more than 50% savings. Furthermore, there's no need to travel by road taking the bus because the bus stop right at the jetty.

The bus ride there was better that I had expected. However, Bryan was complaining about the discomfort. He couldn't get much sleep but I was sleeping almost all the time.