Tioman Island, again...
June 15 – 29, 2009 As we neared the end of our ten months' traipse around Southeast Asia, and perhaps more significantly, the end of two months of frequently challenging travel in southern China, we decided we needed a couple of weeks somewhere 'nice,' with GOOD FOOD, somewhere QUIET, somewhere PEACEFUL, somewhere warm and sunny, and somewhere where there were no particular sights we needed to see or things we needed to do. Somewhere we could just kick back and enjoy. Somewhere where we could rest up not only from our 'grand tour,' but also for our 'return home,' wherever that may be. It didn't take us long to decide that paradisaical Tioman Island, the place where we spent the first three weeks of our trip, was that 'somewhere.' And once we'd made that decision, we beat a hasty retreat from China. We hopped over the border from Nanning, where the city was 'same same' as all the other Chinese cities we'd been in – busy, bold, lo...