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Travel Blogs from Ipoh
Refreshingly cool highlands and Petronas heights
... flowers, taking photos and then completely forgot to be worried.
The next stop on our whirlwind tour was the BOH Tea Plantation. We got to it via another very windy road, but the views down the valley and over the tea fields were a great distraction to the blind corners. At the plantation we got to walk around the production area, which was a lot small than expected, but is still capable of producing over 6000,000 kg of tea a year. Alex then bought a cup of Palas ...
Not Really In Hollywood
Waking up this morning, we went down for our free breakfast at T-Hotel before lazing around for an hour or so. The breakfast included fried rice, fried noodles, toast with some kind of very sweet spread and coffee and juice. Not bad, and certainly saved us some pennies.
During our lazing around time, we took a video of our bathroom. It has the best tap ever. Imagine the surprise Lizzie got when she was standing ...
The Cameron Highlands
... wrapped in a banana leaf. We had to queue up with the locals for one to see what all the fuss was about - they were lovely. We also had to try the 20p noodles. They also had stalls selling pizzas and burgers, amsuing to see the local Malay people queuing for the Western food.
In the evening we had a really nice cheap Indian meal, eating off banana leaves, again, at a place called Kumars.
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Cameron Highlands
... at the bottom of the street. We already noticed the place the day before because of it's bright orange colour. As it turned out the owner of the place was a Chinese man who had owned a Chinese restaurant in Holland and now moved back to Malaysia. Food was really good a bit more expensive then we would normally spend but we thought we earned it after a day in the jungle.
Tomorrow we leave for Georgetown in Penang with a few stops en route in Ipoh and Taiping.
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