Hillcity Hotel&Condo Ipoh

... before flying on to Brisbane. Ipoh (pronounced EE-poh) came into the frame as a suitable stop with a few attractions to explore and options as to where to go next. <br><br>We set off from Georgetown by way of the ferry which links the island of Penang to the mainland city of Butterworth (these names are so colonial!). We had originally come onto the island byu the road bridge which is several kilometers long and means quite a detour to get to the bus station ...

This green portion of Malaysia is worth writing a book about. It's certainly a breath of fresh air, and I don&#8217;t mean it only metaphorically &#8211; it is fresh and cool. Small local towns and villages are resting several hundred meters above the sea level, peacefully hugged by the jungle and tea plantations. Finally, I escape for a few days from the heat and humidity.<br><br>Once again, I make a great choice by picking Kang&#8217;s (Daniel&#8217;s) Lodge to sleep. Maybe not ...

... belachelijk. Iedereen volgde blijkbaar hetzelfde pad en bij hellingen en afdalingen moest je letterlijk aanschuiven door de hordes toeristen en gidsen die het smalle pad bewandelden. Ontgoocheld keerde ik dan terug en gelukkig sprak ik met 2 leuk uitziende toeristen die me een pad aanraadden langs een nomadenstam en een rivier waar amper toeristen komen en dat uimondt in een idyllische hut waar je kunt overnachten en wilde dieren spotten. Ik was weliswaar meteen ...

... so why listen to him? He wondered around, or lay around, near to the other tigers and ran up and stole the odd piece of meat when the feeder failed to throw the meat accurately enough to the other two tigers. Why do tricks when you can get the food anyway? What a guy! He did what he wanted, and got what he wanted, a feline role-model for us all, he just didn't give a ****, haha. Other than the slides and the tigers, the park also had a fake hot spring pool that was really ...

... local strawberry farm, which is also massively produced in this area, where we were lucky enough to smaple some homemade strawberry ice cream and a milkshake!which made all our walking worthwhile!was v.tasty! The following day, we thought we would have a quieter day, taking to one of the many trails that are in the highlands which sounded much more relaxed and less taxing!how wrong we were...it turned out to be even more challenging than the day before ...

... d'avoir ce char d'assaut comme vehicule pour la jungle. Nous nous sommes rendu a un village et nous avons entre dans un chemin de terre. Nous devions faire 20 min en camion. On etais 2 Land Rover, mais voila, l'autre n'a pas pu monter la premiere cote. Le premier Land Rover a petter son 4x4, il n'a tout simplement pas monter. Nous nous avons du debarquer 3 fois pour marcher a cote du camion. Il faut quand meme dire qu'il a plu toute la ...

... to Gobi and then had to stop him trying to remove it with his bare hands! The room was at the end of a corridoor on its own and as we were stood in the doorway the old man who had showed me there wandered down it - as if scouting out where I was - he had no other reason to be there. Moments later Gobi was hitting on me and everytime I said no he asked for a reason why! After a shower I sat on my bed, trying not to touch anything, with insects scurrying over the mattress ...

... amusing drunk Chinese man, who was very friendly and attempting to give us lots of travelling advice (some of it seemed slightly inaccurate, but hey!). Watched a local show-thing in the high street, with lots of dancers and very intimidating people demonstrating their martial arts. I'm not sure how kick boxing compares (Oche), but these guys looked very very mean!

... to go anywhere for basic needs. And the staff was ever so helpful. The place had a great little vibe which made it almost bareable for Jeff to be inactive ;) The bad news is that Cameron Highlands is so successful that it is being ravaged by over-develoment. Not only by the construction of ever more fake tudor hotels (I don't think that they built many twenty story tudor buildings back in the day) but also by the illegal clearing and ...

... is costing the princley sum of 1.50 a night each for a room with a fan. the place is right on the edge of the jungle at 6000 ft. Me and mike wacthed the game in the jungle bar last night with a couple of students one a liverpool fan called katie and one a newcastle fan called katie so as you can imagine there was not a whole lot of love in the room for the scumbags. it was really strange being in malaysia not seeing ...