Hotel Seri Malaysia Taiping

... the worst fisherman on the island (population 16) but quite likely one of the worst in all Malaysia! Made up for it by Kayaking around the island, in a two man Kayak with a friend. Herons fluttered by and a vast collection of lily pads with pink flowers enchanted us... it took an hour in total and was worth every minute. What an experience, which was, in the absolute literal sense, away from it all.

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Just spent the last 3 days in Taiping, is a little town that daves family hail from. With that fact we stayed with his aunty when we were there, which was really good and gave us a chance to save a bit of money. First day we got there we arrived late then headed off to get some food. We went to a restaurant and amoungst other things that daves aunt ordered was Stingray, was pretty good actually, not that fishy but wicked good!
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Hello! Day One: On our way out of Penang, we decided to make one last stop off to the water dispensing machine (only 10sen to refill a bottle of water!) before our journey to Taiping. As we were filling up our water, the campest man we have encountered so far burst out of the nearby 7-11 and came flailing over to us. He suddenly went into a dramatic arm gestured conversation about exchange rates?! I say conversation, but it was more like "what is the rate between dollars ...

Taiping was an unexpected surprise. Liz, from Portsmouth, and Anya, from the states, and myself decided that we wanted to return to Penang for Thaipusam but decided to head out for a week as we had time to kill. Out initial plan was ...

... menage la dedans. Immensse mais encore une fois on ne pouvais pas entree a l'interieur. Le sultan est un peu genee. hihi. A l'arriere du palais, nous avons visiter la demeure des Rajahs de l'epoque , avant que le palais fu construit, on a pu entree mais il y avait rien dedans. Quand meme la batisse etait vraiment jolie. Finalement, nous avons visiter le "hangard" du sultan (voir photo bientot), un genre de chateau anglais, avec tout ses objets de ...

Has anybody wonder what is there to discover in Taiping? If you ask me about it, I can't really tell you much. All I know about Taiping is its famous Lake...but I ...

... a meal (5R)! Some of the group spent that in our trip to the supermarket before we went back to the house! The basic structure was that we were going to be visiting the zoo on friday, having both weekends off and working weekdays up until the 20th; 8am til 4.30pm. It takes 20 minutes to walk from the house to the zoo and a further 20 to get to Taiping. So this created limits as to what we could do at night. From Friday to Sunday we just chilled in the evenings at the house and ...

... whole fish, spicy wing beans. a savoury pineapple dish, chicken with bamboo and durian salsa. It was a feast with our host making sure our plated were never short of rice. The meal was finished off with fresh mango and tea or coffee. The best thing was the conversation. Aziz was eager to answer our questions about Islam and life in Malaysia. This was more than a homestay ...

... clothes and they even had a TV. It was just really sad to see because they weren't living their traditional life, they were just poor. After that we hiked for what felt like forever until we got to these waterfalls. Along the way, we saw some interesting stuff like a snake that jumps from trees, flowers that smell like curry, the roots used for root beet and a flower that is used as a numbing agent. That stuff was pretty cool. The ...