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Travel Blogs from Taiping
First 'Real' Use of My Backpack
As a rule, Malaysians don't backpack we go picnics. I bought my first backpack in 2002. Mostly to travel back from my uni, which is 40 km from my hometown. I ached 'to use the backpack'. Not to backpack in real sense just yet. Just to use the backpack. After brief planning, me and Nani agreed to hit the train to Taiping, an old mining town from the …
KL and onwards
Arrived at KL a little ahead of schedule but by the time we had cleared immigration no nominated carousel was shown for our flight so we started searching at K and found bags with only 3 other pieces of others' luggage at A! At least they were still there!
After extensive wandering through KLIA with at least 5 sets of conflicting instructions and signage we eventually found a lift which had a sign inside showing a floor in the car ...
Tiger and Tapir Time
... and only had to share with a few groups of very well behaved school kids who took the train around whilst we walked.
We had already booked a room in the Cameron Highlands so unfortunately we couldn't stay another night so the following morning we headed back to the bus stop (again failing to find the local shuttle or possibly just giving up waiting for it to arrive and catching a taxi instead).
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All Aboard For The Night Safari
... cycling trio!
It turned out to be a fantastic day, which began with a ride across Asia’s longest bridge. The guide book claimed it was 13km, but our speedo’s only clocked 10 – still a long way. Fifteen miles to the first drinks stop flew by, and we knew that Tommy was going to be absolutely fine. He wasn’t just getting on with it, he was LOVING it!!! We were on the expressway and the next stop turned out to be 26 ...