Last Day in Salang

Our last day in Salang village was today and I have nothing but good things to say about the place. The water was clear and blue, the food was delicious, and the people were some of the friendliest people I had ever met. Alfian, Mazlan, and Jay at Fisherman's Divers were awesome. We hung out at their shop for 4 days like it was our home. We met their friends Penyu and Baby, who came along with us on the dive. They gave us their numbers and told us to call them when we get back to KL.

Penyu had some really great stories about the pranks he and his friends would pull while diving. Him and his friends would go around and turn off each other's air supplies and wait for them to run out of air and try desperately with their eyes bulging, gasping for air, to twist it back on. Each scuba unit has two air sources, one is an extra in case your buddy runs out of air. It supposed to be clamped to your suit so when Penyu sees a friend who forgot to strap it, he'd go and steal air until they run out. They have to resurface and he still has a full tank of air.

(Alfian, Josie, Me, Penyu)

Him and his girlfriend, baby, gave us lots of recommendations for places to go in KL. That was good because so far, we didn't like it.

Pequi was great to meet too. He told us lots of stories about his travels and gave us advice on Indonesia. I also shared a couple beers with him of course. On the boat dive, we met a few people too.

Leigh, who's been traveling for the past 14 monthes, told me about diving in Koh Tao in Thailand and how it's marketed as the cheapest place to dive in the world ... so you'll probably see and entry in a couple weeks from there.

I was sad to leave Salang, but we're going to head a little bit south on the Island to Air Batang and then hike to Juara the next day.