The Way to Tioman

September 20th - 21st

We finally left northern Thailand and headed south to our next stop, albeit for just one night, Singapore. We hopped an Air Asia flight to Bangkok and got to spend a 3 hour layover inside the smelly, dirty Bangkok Airport. The best way to pass the time there was by playing "girlfriend or escort." That was the game we made up to determine whether the couples we saw walking by were actual "couples", in our orthodox, western sense of the word. For the record, we'd been playing this game for about a week now and were pretty sure that most were pairings with alterior motives - whatever those may be... use your imagination.

After waiting way too long to finally board our flight to Singapore we were relieved to be on a plane again, but only for a short while, as the stormy skies made it for a bumpy ride into the island/city/country that is the concrete jungle named Singapore.

We spent the night in the quaint Little India section of Singapore before leaving the next morning for our week of fun in the sun on the Malaysian island of Pulau Tioman. If we thought the flight into Singapore the night before was rough, that was nothing compared to the flight out to Tioman. The black skies and lightning that accompanied us for about 27 or the 35 minute flight was enough to make the 44-seat plane seem like it was its last flight. Fortuntaly for us, it wasn't. And with about 8 minutes left in the flight the skies opened up to expose crystal blue waters and endless rays of sun as we approached what looked like Jurassic Park from the sky.

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