I do not know from where or which media suggesting that Sibu Island is as beautiful as a germ in the middle of the sea and fun yet not as commercial as Redang, so we should be able to enjoy the exclusiveness and serenity… but we forgot the challenges before “happily ever after” in every fairy tale.
We departed around 12 noon, from map, we thought we might the slowest can reach the island in 5 hours time. So, we were taking our own sweet time, stopped over Malacca for banana leaf (luckily we did, reason will be reveal later).
Around 3.30pm, one of the reception from Sibu Island Resort called us, asking for our location and told us the last boat transfer to the island is at 4pm… what?!?! How could they missed out this important information to their guest? There’s no way for us to reach the jetty in another half an hour time, so, after ding ding dong dong discussion, they offer us chartered boat @ RM250, well, what to do? Or the payment that we made to the resort, RM, will be burnt…
We kept driving, driving, following the road sign, took wrong turning, called resort… ding ding dong dong again… we reached the jetty at 8pm!!! 8 HOURS JOURNEY!!!
3 princesses in their CHARTERED boat!!! Anna, Serrea and me
Because of all the calling, discussion and questioning, our names were immediately becoming very famous among all the staffs in the resort.
As dinner was not included in the package, we ordered a la carte – Fish & Chip (my favourite dish when I travel to beaches or island), mushroom soup and seafood pizza.
Mushroom soup and fish & chip were fine, not delicious, but good enough to compensate our tired souls and starving stomachs, but come to the pizza… tasteless… it’s absolutely a surprise how the outlook presented so differently from the taste. So, we asked for chilli flakes, but, the waiter has no idea what were we asking, and we were giving chilli powder… tasteless chilli powder… another surprise.
We were told the activity of the night was bon fire… we went there, I saw one of the staffs was playing a guitar and sing with 4-5 visitors clapping hands to show support… ahhhhhh, we were not interested.
We went in to the karaoke room, Anna & Serrea ordered a can of beer for each, we thought since there wasn’t anybody in the room, we can sing until our lungs out, but, the staffs were slotting their songs with ours… ahhhhhh, boring… end up we rather drink the wine that we brought in our room.
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Since there’s nothing much we can do in the island, we decided to sleep as much as we want, woke up just on time to take our complimentary breakfast.
tada~~~, girls can eat and drink! We were too exhausted the night before, we only manage to drink half of the bottle, so, we finished the other half during breakfast!
What can we do in the island? 1. Animal feeding. There are a lot of deer, goats and peacock.
2. People and scenery watching, shell animal bullying. I have no idea how these foreigner ended up in such an “interesting” island, there are so many other islands which have better scenery, better beaches, better service, more activities, e.g. snorkelling, diving
3. Continue drinking, reading (pretending only, sunlight is too bright for reading), camwhoring…
4. Napping & swimming
At last come to dinner time, we are trying to order simpler food and at least some dishes which are Malay specialty (the chef is a Malay), so they won’t go too wrong. We ordered a salad, satay, nasi goreng kampong and seafood spaghetti, phew~ the food is much nicer than the night before.
One of the highlight for the dinner was the live band, they were very professional and sing really good. Instead of having our wine and beer in room, we spent the night chatting & enjoying live band in the restaurant.
p/s: if you notice, we skipped the lunch, we had very heavy breakfast and had only beer, chips and ice-cream for lunch!
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Avoiding the mistake that we made on the 1st day, we checked ferry time and were trying to catch earlier boat back to the mainland, we wouldn’t want to be home late night, yet we were so sick by just thinking about spending another 8 hours of road trip in car.
Our room in the island
Beautiful island from far
The beautiful and most romantic KFC outlet that I ever see. But what bordering us was the road trip back home and petrol volume in the car tank, we worried that with the what we have in the car can’t last us to the nearest petrol station. Luckily we were able to get the staff from the island to bring us to a local convenient store which sell petrol.
Moral of the story: If you are trying to be adventurous, and planning to explore a place which non of your friend has come across, it’s best to do a thorough check up.
