Hotel Fuliyean
Travel Blogs from Taiping
The hardest backpacking day yet...
We sleepily got up at 6:30am to our alarm and quickly got ready as our friendly taxi man was picking us up at 7am to take us to the jetty. As I lifted my backpack onto the bed my favourite insect of all was hiding underneath it, a cockroach! It was either dead or scared by the look of fear on my face as it didn't attempt to scuttle away. We saw the …
Museum Day
We had a nice lie in until around 11am and then got ready before walking to the 'Central Market' for something to eat. We were the only Westerners around and so as we walked through the food market we got a few strange looks but we scanned around for a sign that we could kind of understand. We stopped at a place that sold economy rice, which was …
KL and onwards
... a flag at the beginning of road works......see photo in due course) In a number of places there were real men....you could just about tell the difference as the plastic one was more active. Due to road works we did not arrive in Taiping until dusk with just enough light to inadvertently enjoy the lake gardens whilst searching for the hotel.
Hotel good value and dinner was served outside and when it started to rain a roof ...
2 days 1 night at Pangkor Island
... another choice.
The ferry will stop at Sungai Pinang first before reaching ...
All Aboard For The Night Safari
The 7am plan didn't pan out, but we were packed up and breakfasted by 9.30 and ready to go. In cycling shorts and long stripy socks, Tom was extremely pumped up about the trip and both he and Mikey had finally recovered from the 'training’ after effects of Langkawi’s hottest nightspots. An Australian backpacker enviously watched us make the final preparations to the bikes, before wheeling them back onto the street for our first proper day ...