Pulau Perhentian Kecil, Malaysia

This is it. We found it. It took a while, 2 major cities, hop to a Vietnamese island, and a 1000 km train trip thru jungle, followed by a good hour's worth of sitting in a "taxi" and finally a 30-minute speed boat trip.

The Jungle Railway is a less-used train route thru some of the oldest rainforest in the world. Would be really interesting to see it some day. But we boarded the train in Singapore, and shortly thereafter (7pm) the tropical darkness fell upon us, after which it took approx. 12 hrs before there was enough light to see anything outside the train again.

But to the point; we have arrived to our destination. We didnt know it until we arrived, but now we're there.
The remote island with with sand, lush forest and no bars by Sedu.
We arrived in the nick of time, the dozen-or-so places on the island are closing down for the monsoon season. This means several things; there really is heavy rain coming our way, again. Maybe half of the places have already closed, opening again in March-April or so. And the seas will get rough, which will make the boats here more infrequent.
But it also means that there are not many people on the island anymore, and the prices on rooms are low. We paid something in the order of 40€ for the first 3 nights. After those we'll see about the weather again. Also the general feeling amongst the habitants is be extremely relaxed, but I don't know it that is due to the general mentality or ending of the season.

But currently the weather is overcast, temperature 30+ and no winds to speak of. The waters are clear and the restaurant-huts on the beach are firing up their barbecues.

This region is basically conservative muslim country, which means drinking is not really couraged but on the beach there are also signs on the contrary...

Also had chance to test the souvenir from Singapore; marine case for the camera. Quite dear, but worth the money. Went snorkeling off the beach and saw the usual parrot fish, jellyfish etc but also a sea turtle!