Excelsior Hotel Ipoh

... some sort of curry (please dont ask ruby ... it was meat and sauce and rice ... i didnt ask what sort of meat and they chose not to tell us!)<br>Then we went to a tea plantation ..and then up to the top of Gunung Brinchang which is their highest point .. 6666ft and once up there i would love to describe the absolutely amazing views .. but i cant cos the clouds had come down so all we saw was fog!<br><br>then a little bit further down the hill (mountain really) we went ...

... the street &#8211; the dullest city in Malaysia! If I had to live here, probably on a second day, I would jump out through my window on that burning piece of concrete. Luckily, this time I didn&#8217;t wait for a second day, I happily packed my stuff in the morning and ...

... 30 pm ! We also found out that Tanah Ratah happens to be about 3 hours away by bus through the winding hillside roads.<br> We caught all our connecting modes of transport, but it was a long day totally written off by travelling. The fact is these days are necessary but a point to note for future reference on a day of travelling you must see the day as just that. A means of getting from A to B. Its not worth thinking you can do something with your ...

... of rides which are lame in England and no-one ever goes on, inlcuding the pirate ship, a carousel thing? and some swinging circling ships?. The park also had a mini train (which in malaysia means a tractor pulling some carriages along shaped like a train, which is NOT a mini train in my opinion) (Tom: Rich seems to be a mini-train connouisseur. He loves them more than life itself). There were 2 main slide sections; Cliff Racer which was just one slide, but pretty good; and Tube ...

... minor uses, but eitherway are still a nice English tradition. After our one game of bowling we decided to have one more, only to find out that a bowling tournament (Tom: The local prison guards (at least I hope they were guards and not inmates!) vs. the Ministry of Trade!) was about to begin, so we couldn't play because it was for Muslims only :( (Tom: I asked if I could join and Mr. Chong said I would have to convert and change my name to Ishmael Tom Bin Abdullah ...

... various people. The bar usually shut around 03:00 but we managed to keep it open until around 06:00 and were dropped off by Murthy, a friend of Ganeson's who lived in Penang. He became a good friend and invited us to join him ...

... les magasins. Nous quitterons surement demain. Hier en revenant de l'internet nous avons vue comment tout le monde s'entends bien ici. Indien, chinois, malais etc. Mais surtout ce qui est surprenant c'est de voir le chien faire le guet en avant du chat couche , de voir un chat a cote d'un rat qui regardaientt les touristes que nous sommes, passer. P.S. Je vous ai conter que Rejean ne peut circuler seul sans se faire offrir des boum, boum...... Bisoux xxxxxxxxx France et Rejean

... was by now 2pm). So I asked around for a local taxi number in the carpark, but getting nowhere I found myself somewhat stranded! Recognising four Belgian guys from my hotel I asked them where they were going and how and after a few minutes they very kindly offered to drop me at Brinchang in their hire car, which was a long way out of their way. A bit further along the road we passed three British girls walking towards Brinchang and so stopped and gave them a lift too - what a ...

... in the afternoon now. We were so comfy we ordered dinner from the couch as well. The next day we checked out early and went down to the bus station to see if the mythical afternoon bus to Kuala Lumpur actually existed. We then took the rattletrap local bus up the highway and got off at the Boh Tea Estate. What we thought was a fairly short walk turned out to be a very long one, but it was okay when we rounded the ...

Ipoh is a fairly large town in Malaysia, but it's not on the backpacking trail as there really isn't much to see or do. However, a friend I made in Thailand is from Ipoh, so I was stopping by to pay a visit (not to mention really needing a home rest stop). I called Goh, my friend, from the bus stop, and he came and picked me up, in his car! It was weird to be in a car again with a seatbelt on listening to the radio, not ...