Tioman Island

Tioman Island is south of Malaysia, on the East Coast, is 4 hours or so from Singapore, making it attractive to the people of this island, who come to spend the weekend here, diving and using their amazing beaches. It is a small paradise, which is still untapped, and cheap for a backpacker. There are many villages, small in size, the one more for a backpacker is Air Batang, ABC, where you will find cheap and tasty food, a mixture of Chinese, Indian and Indonesian. The island can be crossed on foot, on the other side there is only a tiny village with limited hotel and infrastructure, a generator for the night and not much else.

With clear water and turtles (unfortunately we saw none, but friends of us did). It is double or more the prices on the island than on the rest of Malaysia. A lot of tourism and sand flies.