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Rafflesia Hunting in the Cameron Highlands

A travel blog entry by mmlivelife2011

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... flash. Because we found the flower.

The pics do the best to describe the Rafflesia. One must remember there was no guarantee we would find one on this trek. The unopened blooms are like black bowling balls and the plant grows from runners that travel for dozens of metres along the jungle floor. We took about a 20 minute break before we started our descent. One would think this would be easier than the climb, but with all the rain and ...

Day 60

A travel blog entry by jessievilla

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... places. Ipoh is built around lots of limestone cliffs and there are these temples that have been built inside the limestone caves. They're huge and have lots of different compartments. Ooh its like a cave in 'ere! There are also lots of steps leading to separate little temples and altars, and like fools we decided to climb them. Cue another Ricky Hatton moment, the sweat coming off me was unbelievable. In order to avoid dehydration, opted for an ice-cream ...

The Highlander

A travel blog entry by chris_powell

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... go home! finally we persuade him to open another bus and we sleep there but it's the most uncomfortable night I've ever had. Unable to sleep we find a 24hr restaurant where I manage to get a cup of tea and a curry - just what I needed after that ordeal!

Tanah rata itself is a one-horse town. there is absolutely nothing to do in the town itself, although strangely (and annoyingly) it has a Starbucks - weird. I book to take a trek into the jungle and to see the world's ...

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

A travel blog entry by baggywiggles

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... keen to hike back and the lift in the car was very welcome! Really liked the Cameron Highlands and in retrospect we should really have stayed longer but Ill hold my hand up for that one as I was too happy up on the beach in the Perhentians. If anything weather might stave off the home sickness for a while. Really nice change. Suppose I was a bit optimistic thinking that Id be able to find a bar in the back end of Malaysia showing an Irish football game at 12 at ...

Kellie Castle,Perak Tong & The City That Tin Built

A travel blog entry by fouritchyfeet

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... up with a newzealand man Charles Alma Baker, and together they carried out survey work and building roads, with the profits he brought 1,500 acres of land, which he intended to use as a rubber plantation. In 1903 he met his wife on a visit back to Scotland. He built Kellies house on the rubber plantation in 1904 for himself his wife and baby daughter, borrowing against his wifes inheritance. In 1908 with the birth of a son and heir, Smith decided to extend kellies ...

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