{"id":21,"date":"2006-07-14T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T19:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southeastasia.fr\/blog-de-voyage\/2006\/07\/14\/vendredi-jour-de-repos-et-de-balade\/"},"modified":"2018-11-07T19:53:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T18:53:25","slug":"vendredi-jour-de-repos-et-de-balade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/en\/vendredi-jour-de-repos-et-de-balade-20060714\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday in Tioman, day of rest and ride"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Tioman jungle, in the southeast of Peninsular Malaysia, is a protected natural park. Dense, almost impenetrable, it covers most of the island.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Let's hope that the airport opened by the hotel company Berjaya and the status of \"duty free\" zone recently granted to Tioman will not upset the situation too much... But I am not very optimistic about this.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_413\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-413\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jungle1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-413\" src=\"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jungle1.jpg\" alt=\"-\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jungle1.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jungle1-400x300.jpg 400w, https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jungle1-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jungle1-293x220.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-413\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Strange noises come out of the jungle, on the other side of the path. Sizzling, unknown bird songs, unidentified screams and whistles... (Tioman, Malaysia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">This Friday, I decide to do as the Muslims do and to rest. After three days of non-stop diving, I want to dry off a bit! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">So I rent a bike to go to the village of <\/span><strong style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Tekek<\/strong><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">, where live most of the real islanders, the families of fishermen and small merchants in majority.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>To leave \"my\" beach, we have to cross a mini hill via a small staircase. Carrying the bike over these few steps is not a big effort, but it is enough to make me swim. Malaysia, the country where you never get dry...<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\ude02<\/p>\n<p>Under the cover of the trees that shade the path at this place, marauding monkeys observe me approaching. Slowly I put down the bike to take out the camera.<\/p>\n<p>But they are wary and return illico to hide in the branches.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_414\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-414\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jungle2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-414\" src=\"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jungle2.jpg\" alt=\"A monkey seen on the way ... (Tioman, Malaysia)\" width=\"600\" height=\"428\" srcset=\"https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jungle2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jungle2-390x278.jpg 390w, https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jungle2-18x12.jpg 18w, https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jungle2-385x275.jpg 385w, https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jungle2-293x209.jpg 293w, https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jungle2-400x285.jpg 400w, https:\/\/petitesbullesdailleurs.fr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/jungle2-500x357.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-414\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A monkey seen on the way ... (Tioman, Malaysia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The day of my arrival in Tioman, I was amazed by my encounter, on the way to the beach, with two huge monitor lizards. When I say huge, I am not exaggerating: those of Perhentian Kecil are small lizards of nothing at all, compared to these mastodons with the appearance of crocodiles which fled in front of me with a surprising agility for their clumsy gait of antediluvian batrachians.<\/p>\n<p>I didn't have time to take pictures of them. But the monkeys, once perched on their branches, are less shy, and I managed to take some pictures.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tioman jungle, in the southeast of Peninsular Malaysia, is a protected natural park. 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