Day Trip to Pulau Tenggol
Immediately Hj Wan called and asked Mr. Zol (Discovery Divers), any dive trips to Pulau Tenggol? Yes, there is a group is going, so I and Hj Wan Ahmad confirmed join them. Woke up early morning, 7am we departed from Chukai, Kemaman the south district of Terengganu, border to Pahang with 80km/h driving, we arrived Kuala Dungun Market at 8am. The market located at Kg. Bijangga. We had our breakfast there, I had nasi dagang a tradisional and well known breakfast in Terengganu while Haji Wan Ahmad was having nasi minyak with beef gulai. Coincidentally, I meet my old friend Abg Ming, call and get him join to my table for coffee. Haji Wan called the boatman asked when we will depart to Island, we will depart at 8.45am. Haji Wan get the things to bring, he packed nasi minyak for our lunch, bought some fruits and "kuih-muih". For your information, this was a day trip. We "salam" to our old friend and we move to the jetty. We prepared to depart. Take a boat twin engine 200hp each at Kuala Dungun about 45 minutes to reach there. During the journey is very good, the sea water very calm to welcome us. Getting out from the boat in Pulau Tenggol at 9.30am, relax and having a chat with new friends meet.
About 10.15am preparing our gear and 10.30am we go to dive site Tokong Talang for about 5 minutes by boat, very good visibility at the maximum depth 26.6m. Here are some views we can share....we dive about 55 minutes and sail back to dive center. At 1.30pm, prepared our gear, the second dive was at Amazing Graze with the maximum depth 20.6m, visibility is very good. Slide show some thing we need to share....we dive about 55 minutes and sail back to dive center. While waiting time to depart back to Kuala Dungun we was enternatined by a squirral called "El" above some image to share... So, we are finished our one day dive trip in Pulau Tenggol. On the way back to Kuala Lumpur we stayed a night in Payung Guest House, Cherating Beach. Pulau Tenggol
The Tenggol group of islands is the most southernly of Terengganu's Marine Parks. It consists of Pulau Tenggol (Tenggol Island), Pulau Nyireh, Tokong Timur, Tokong Burung and Tokong Talang/Tokong Kemudi, Tokong Laut. Cited as “The Best Diving in Peninsular Malaysia” Asian Diver Magazine 2002 Annual Edition. Here is a map of dive sites in Tenggol; 
Pulau Tenggol lies 14 nautical miles (26 km) off the coast of quiet fishing town of Kuala Dungun, Terengganu, Malaysia. This rocky island about 50 hectares in size, spans less than 3 kilometres in length and 2 kilometres at its widest point, is one of the most beautiful and serene islands off Peninsular Malaysia's east coast, with spectacular rocky cliffs that offer many excellent dive sites. One of the island’s attractions is that it is close to its original state. A virgin island with its white sandy beaches backed by steeply forested cliffs is a pleasant retreat away from the city. Activities range from snorkelling, scuba diving, jungle trekking or just basking under the sun on the white sandy beach.
At Pulau Tenggol, divers and Snorkellers alike can find pristine coral formations and a number of submerged rocks with excellent coral growths. Tenggol and its surrounding islands offer good visibility with teeming of marine life, including sharks, rays, nudibranch and a wide variety of hard and soft corals. Divers will discover that Tenggol offers great diving experiences, ranging from deep diving, drift diving and wreck dive for the advanced divers or experienced divers. The fantastic shallow dives are great for the least experienced divers or just for the experienced to off gas. Tenggol temperatures rage from breezy 32degC in the day to cool 25degC at night. The island was traditionally uninhabited, but now contains resorts. Vietnamese boat people were known to have been stranded on the island as an aftermath of the Vietnam War.
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