Comments on: Scuba Diving Perhentian Islands, Malaysia: A Quick Guide http://divehappy.com/malaysia/scuba-diving-perhentian-islands-malaysia-a-quick-guide/ a personal guide to scuba diving in Thailand and South East Asia Mon, 06 Oct 2008 14:39:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Aymeric http://divehappy.com/malaysia/scuba-diving-perhentian-islands-malaysia-a-quick-guide/#comment-199 Aymeric Fri, 20 Oct 2006 18:29:05 +0000 http://divehappy.com/thailand/scuba-diving-perhentian-islands-malaysia-a-quick-guide/#comment-199 That's a very good guide but i'd like to notify some less good point about Perhentian, even if it was my first travel and the first tropical place i ever went to - so I really enjoyed it- i found really deplorable the way a lot of travelers act about waste. Indeed in some of the beautiful and most famous beaches, you can find cans, polyester (take-away) boxes... That's really a shame but even if it's a problem, these island are really worth a look. Just don't think you will have really immaculate beaches everywhere... And I really recomend to ask locals (not the taxi-boat) about the really good places to go. Which are usually not the most famous ones. For example I saw just one shark during the organized snorkelling trip (supposed to bring us where they all are, in shark point), the day after that I took a boat to a small beach where some locals said that the sharks really were (better in the morning); and after few minutes of search, I was surrounded by 6 black point sharks, one of my best memories ever. Last words Perhentian is beautiful but take a look at Tioman island, it's not more expensive and a lot better specially underwater. Hope it'll be helpfull. That’s a very good guide but i’d like to notify some less good point about Perhentian, even if it was my first travel and the first tropical place i ever went to - so I really enjoyed it- i found really deplorable the way a lot of travelers act about waste.
Indeed in some of the beautiful and most famous beaches, you can find cans, polyester (take-away) boxes…
That’s really a shame but even if it’s a problem, these island are really worth a look.
Just don’t think you will have really immaculate beaches everywhere…
And I really recomend to ask locals (not the taxi-boat) about the really good places to go. Which are usually not the most famous ones.
For example I saw just one shark during the organized snorkelling trip (supposed to bring us where they all are, in shark point), the day after that I took a boat to a small beach where some locals said that the sharks really were (better in the morning); and after few minutes of search, I was surrounded by 6 black point sharks, one of my best memories ever.

Last words Perhentian is beautiful but take a look at Tioman island, it’s not more expensive and a lot better specially underwater.

Hope it’ll be helpfull.

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