"If you have a free week-end,..." Malaysia Off The Beaten Path Tip by Pierre_Rouss

If you have a free week-end, why not drive to Malaysia east coast to Mersing (less than an hour from Johor Bahru JB), take a 1 hour boat ride to Pulau Besar (an isolated island) and enjoy snorkling and nothing at all.
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It's an island like many other where you dock at the end of a long walkway, overing a shallow reaf (2-6 feet deep), to the edge of the reaf (40-200 feet deep). You can snorkle there or scuba.
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They have facilities there for a few nights and activities to do on the island, mostly trecking and beaching. I don't think there is room for more than a hundred people on the whole island. Please check it out.
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There is Radin Island Resort, confortable and more organized activities. Also more expensive.<BR><BR>

There is the Hillside Chalet Island Resort, more Kampung-style, but quite OK. This is where I stayed, the snorkling in the reef was great (except for the bad sunburn I got on my back), we hiked to the East shore of the island to a beach nicknamed 'beach of eternal love'... we didn't but the sand was great.