I planned a weekend adventure trip with my parents to Tioman island which is a small island off the east coast of Malaysia. It's the island where they filmed the movie South Pacific. It was also named by TIME magazine as one of the top ten worlds most beautiful islands.

In preperation for our trip my mom insisted I take out her stitches (several days early).

She survived the experience (only just)

Part of the adventure of our trip to Tioman island was... just getting there. We took a charter bus from Singapore to Mersing, Malaysia which is on the east coast right on the water (3 hr trip) and then a ferry from Mersing to Tioman which is (2+hrs) and then a (25min) drive through the jungle to Juara beach resort on Tioman island.

We left Singpaore at 6am and had a chance to watch the sunrise on the bridge from Singapore to Malaysia. Since it was a Friday morning we got a glimpse of the Malaysian workforce heading into Singapore for the day. Lots of big trucks bringing the daily supply of fruits and veggies into Singapore as well as hundreds of cars and motorcycles.

About 20,000 motorcycles cross from Malaysia to Singapore everyday.

Part of the bus ride into Malaysia included driving through miles upon miles of Palm tree farms for palm oil.