Excelsior Hotel Ipoh

... Managed to get some dinner at a little cafe up the road from the hotel - fried rice, fish curry and a couple of drinks for about three pounds......
Got a bit of sleep, but the hotel was very noisy. Left on the 08:45 bus to Penang and arrived at the Eastern & Oriental Hotel, Penang just in time for lunch!
E&O hotel is fab - will write more in the next update.
E&P

... 8230; Men schijnt ook te geloven dat de geest van een 20-jarige engelse toeriste, Molly, die 7 jaar geleden nooit terugkeerde uit de jungle, nog steeds door de hoge bomen zweeft… Uiteindelijk werkte ik slechts 3 avonden in het restaurant. Ik zou nog veel langer in dat idyllische dorpje kunnen gebleven zijn ware het niet dat een van de maleisiers zich nogal opdringerig gedroeg en ik besloot wijselijk om het dorpje te verlaten alvorens de sitatie mogelijks ...

... was the only way to enter into the jungle. It was great fun and then we left the jeep and trekked on foot to look at the biggest flower in the world - the rafflesia. Also visited a village near the jungle. Basically just did some walking around but was not really in contact with the villagers. We then stopped for lunch and in the afternoon we visited a tea ...

... the rest of the slide on my front feet first. We both came out at the bottom without the tube! The Malayians seemed to find this hilarious, until they noticed us stumbling around holding our heads, when they seemed to look more concerned. We both gave smiles and laughed, which allowed them to continue laughing. Some Malayians collected our tube which was stuck somewhere in the ride and we went to rest. My head was throbbing for about 10-15minutes, it was very painful, but we ...

... We sat down at played a few cards before being approached by a friendly Chinese man, who turned out to be the Bowling Ally Manager named Mr. Chong (Tom: Good ol' Chongy. Legend). He sat down with us and we had a really good conversation about the Malayan education, religion, England, Malaysia, the local area and various other topics. Tom jokingly asked if we could have a free game of bowling because we had now become friends, he replied that "nothing is for free in ...

... in Penang for Thaipusam. He also agreed to pick us up in the morning to take us on a tour around town. Taiping is the richest state in Malaysia and made its money originally from tin mines. It still remains affluent today - even ...

... and stay with them as it was one girls birthday - unbelievable! I slept the whole way to KL and we arrived around midnight - 3 hours later than planned! Feeling pretty irritable I caught sight of the Petronas Towers lit up as we entered the city and it suddenly all seemed worth it - and thus started my love affair with the architectural wonder! At the bus station I shook off Yusra and set off to find a guesthouse - as arriving late on a Saturday night in a big city was not ...

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 4pm+, and played a board game (something about car racing, and i forget the game name already XD) till dinner. Yf's mum ...

... an opportunity to wear long pants and even long sleeves. You could see the europeans (and us) luxuriating in the damp coolness of the place which felt like God had installed an air conditioner in this one region surrounded by equitorial heat everywhere else. The cool climate attracted tea growers way back in the early nineteen hundreds. It now attracts lots of farming -- strawberries, flowers, veggies, and even butterflies. Not only ...

... immersion as Goh took me to more local hot spots to try bean sprout chicken, rojak, nasi lemak, laksa, and some ABC - all sooo delicious. Around this time, I flipped over a Community Chest card in my favor - Neteller had finally found a way to release the several hundred dollars of mine they had to lock up due to the side effects of that stupid law congress passed trying to stop people from gambling online, which ...