Hotel Robin Ipoh
100-110 Jalan Mustapha Al Bakki Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia
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Rafflesia Hunting in the Cameron Highlands
... got out and filled in a giant pot hole with some of the endless tons of red clay flowing down the mountain side. Little did we know that that was what we would have to climb through for the next five hours!!
I will not go into the details of the of hike. Suffice to say we survived. We crossed bamboo bridges and forded streams, climbed mud embankments and hacked our way through bamboo forests. The Dutch boys were all in good shape and ...
All the Way to the Cameron Highlands
... many ways of a small place like Windermere, Scott also remarked on this about 2 seconds before I said it which was spooky.
There wasn't all that much to see in the town, just a few shops, so we went back and booked a tour for the following morning, as well as a bus in the afternoon to Penang. We spent the remainder of the afternoon relaxing and it did actually get a lot cooler so I had to put full trousers on and 2 t shirts to keep warm
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Fresh Air, Green Hills, Good Tea - is this Asia?
... making when I was speaking to my parents, brother and aunty and uncle on Skype that night! While I was Skyping, Tom optimistically had decided to head into town in search of a pub that might be showing the Ireland v Russia game. Just as I was finished on Skype he came back head down as he hadn't been able to find it luckily (or unluckily as it wasn't a great game) however he was able to stream it on the computer.
The next day we headed down to the bus station ...
Train Trip to Ipoh
... 5min walk from the hotel, and the train was only going to be 50mins quicker in the end, which included a 1hr cab ride from the station.
But the 10.30am bus was more like a 11.30am bus... so not going to get to the hotel until 4pm'ish.
Got to hotel at 4.45pm... greeted by Dad. Went and had a shower but really fealt like having a half dozen beers...all good in the end.
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It's a small world after all!
... thing to do when just arriving in a new place, visit the Pharmacy (seriously, we've done a proper tour of the Pharmacy's of South East Asia) and then explored the town a bit. It's a really small place with a few simple shops and restaurants but surrounding the town are the most enormous hotels we've seen anywhere outside of the major cities. They look completely out of place but apparently the Cameron Highlands are a popular get-away for Malaysians escaping the hot ...


