Fairmont Hotel Ipoh

10 Jalan Kampar Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia

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Christmas In Ipoh

A travel blog entry by venoth

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... This is quite a common gesture in Malaysia and it happens for all the main festivities in the year.

Hope you find the photos interesting and shall write about two ...

Easy as that!

A travel blog entry by nikarl

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... detta upptäcktes blev det liv i luckan, kontrollanten blev rasande och gick runt och skrek på bussen. Det slutade med att vi fick betala en hel ringit var extra, alltså två kr, vilket inte var några problem alls men tanten ställde till ett sånt jäkla liv.

Vi blev i alla fall avsläppta där vi skulle och vi började vår promenad. Det var faktiskt inte jobbigt alls att gå upp och ner i backarna mellan plantagerna, det var riktigt skönt att kunna stanna vart man ville under tiden ...

Carry on up the Cameron

A travel blog entry by monkey_king

... up either, it's totally ******* crazy", hahahahahha!

Parted ways and I got up to the summit. A bit later a family of Malay Malaysians showed up and we chatted about Aussie land and Malaysia. The way down wasn't as bad as I thought it would be (Trail 7) as it was rated very tough, but the same should be said of Track 3 which is only rated at moderate-tough. Track 7 came down into some nasty brush ****, but I suppose that's what ...

Fresh Air, Green Hills, Good Tea - is this Asia?

A travel blog entry by baggywiggles

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... I was glad I'd picked hiking boots over Havianas for this one anyway! The end of the trail went along side a farm and then through another one before emerging onto a little road about 4 hours after we set off. At this point without the shelter of the jungle we realized it was a blazing hot day, something of a rarity up here as the temperature doesn't really go above 25 C during the day time. The tea plantation was another 6K up the hills along the road and so ...

Kellie's Castle and the Buddha caves (Perak Tong)

A travel blog entry by burty

... there.

This dude, William Kellie Smith from wee Scotland moved to Malaysia when he was 20 (or Malaya as it was called then), he started building rubber trees and got a bit involved in the tin mining industry, he made a mint and went back to Scotland to get his bird Agnes. He married old Aggie and brought her back to Malaysia.

Kellie loved Indian architecture and culture so he employed a load of Indian builders ...