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Ipoh Slideshow
Ipoh
Travel Blogs from Ipoh, Malaysia
Not Really In Hollywood
... bus that was just about to leave that was going to a place called Alor Setar, from where there are more regular buses to Ipoh. With hindsight, we should have investigated it a little more, especially as she just took our money without giving us a ...
Excursion to royal town of Kuala Kangsar
Yesterday I went on a trip to the royal town of Kuala Kangsar, an hour and a half by bus from Ipoh. Kuala Kangsar, former capital of Perak before being driven out of Ipoh, is a quiet town of 40,000 inhabitants, rather ugly in the center where you can ...
Kledang Hill, Tea Club
... to 大树脚 (under the big tree) to eat laksa. Very nice laksa, and I would say the best meal during the Ipoh trip. LY purposely bought Chee Cheong Fun for us.. wa... thank you~~~! too bad you couldn't join us. Dinner was settled at a ...
Travel Lesson Number 792!
Travel lesson # 792! Today is another one of those travel days! We are leaving Langkawi and heading down to Ipoh the main interconnection point for the Cameron Highlands and Tanah Ratah our final destination. The main thing to take away from today has ...
A visit to Ipoh
... and got a taxi to the nearest cheap hotel. At 48 ringett a night we were told it was very cheap for Ipoh, especially considering it provided a television with English speaking channels, private bathroom, fan and air-conditioner. We stayed inside until the ...
Menglembu tour
Slept till 12pm and had brunch at Old Town coffee shop. Very nice Char Kuey Tiao. Then YF brought us around Menglembu with her car, and stopped by Railway station to take photos. Very nice railway built during British time. Back to Yf's house around ...
Car Culture
Everybody I meet here says it's too hot to walk, and generally we drive to the Jusco department store, even though it's only 300 m away. But the main deterrent to pedestrianism is not the heat but bad urban design. Streets are narrow, there ...
Feb 13, 2012
Ipoh, on route to Cameron Highlands
... (apart from the football results) drinking beer in a Chinese restaurant and watching the football with them. It makes me laugh, Malaysia seems to be filled with Manchester United supporters (much to Danny's distaste, for those who don't know Leeds fans ...
Chinese New Year
... soon realised most places were closed and finding a place to stay was proving difficult. In the end we managed to find somewhere in Ipoh, it was nice enough and luxury compared to the farm. The plan was to head up to Langkawi but we could not get a ...
Ipoh
Hopped on a bus heading west and arrived in the sizeable town of Ipoh a few hours later. Stayed in a dodgy area and later discovered that we could have stayed at the Ritz around the corner for only a little more money. We made up for this, by ...
San Bao Cave, Kellie's Castle
... eat dim sum. After that, we went to San Bao Cave and Kellie Castle. Dinner, Ya Chai Chicken. Another must-eat-thing in Ipoh. The rest of the night time was used to chat (really chat alot o.O) and do YS's birthday present - ...
Overnight Train
... seated car. After an hour & a half at the border where they hitched on a whole pile more seated wagons and a buffet car, we're slowly making our way down peninsula Malaysia, trying to get a little bit of sleep before arriving in KL at 450 tomorrow ...
White Water Rafting
Went white water rafting on the Kampar River, just outside Ipoh with Aini. Really good fun! ...
Trip to Ipoh
... about taking Pas out for snake, squirrel, tortoise ... and for a drinking session. I hope you like brandy and water! My trip to Ipoh was really nice. It was good to see Fiona, Graham, and Katrina again. Te night I arrived, we went to see a Chinese ...
Among caves with Buddha statues and thermal parks
... the area of the water slides and other lakes on top of the hill with boats, canoes and some games as this is essentially an entertainment park. In short, this Ipoh is pretty amazing and there's more to see in the following days.Annulla ...
Ipoh....hmmm
... else and luckily got on the right one! No one checked our tickets though..... 2 and a half hours later we arrived in Ipoh and went to a hotel recommended in the Lonely Planet - not a great recommendation and very over priced.....it was in a bit of ...
Malaysia
Left hat yai for an even worse place but we were now in malaysia. This journey took us 7hours but we crossed the border but had no problems. we had no where to eat so we had some pizza ...
Tea at 6000 ft
Hi everyone greetings from the camaron higlands in malaysia we arrived here yesterday from KL where we stayed 3 days. i will skip over KL as we did not really do very much as the place we were staying in was really loud and none of us got much sleep. ...
Pakej Perkahwinan Di Thailand Nikah Kahwin Siam
... di Pejabat Agama bersama Kadi dan Saksi. Saya telah membawa lebih dari 100 pasangan tanpa ada masalah utk mendaftarkan pernikahan di Malaysia. Wilayah Yala amat kurang Nikah Sindiket. 60%-70% nikah yg dibuat di dalam wilayah Songhkla, Pattani & ...
The Kellie's castle and the Kek Lok Tong Temple
... wanted to remember him putting a statue of himself among the various Hindu deities. The afternoon I instead reached by bus from Ipoh a number of Buddhist temples in various caves contained in a long mountain along the road. In fact I tried to ...
3 days 2 nights in Ipoh and Kuala Kangsar
... our exam. Our budget is around RM250 for 3 days and 2 nights, with only public transport, mainly train ETS from KL to Ipoh and return (Ekspres Senandung), bus Ipoh-Kuala Kangsar-Ipoh and cabs. We stayed at a budget hotel in Ipoh for 3 people ...
Train Trip to Ipoh
... thin beef strips pretending to be bacon... I think that cow would of been quite offended! Now lets see if I can catch that train to Ipoh... Ok the train trip ended up being a 5hr bus trip in the end... as the bus terminal was a 5min walk from the hotel, ...