Hotel Seri Malaysia Ipoh

... right one! No one checked our tickets though.....<br>2 and a half hours later we arrived in Ipoh and went to a hotel recommended in the Lonely Planet - not a great recommendation and very over priced.....it was in a bit of a dodgy street - rooms rented by the hour next door and the "Wild Kitty Massage Club" across the road (and not a cat grooming establishment I understand ...

... of cake there and then walked back through the plantation back towards home. The country side here is beautiful and the weather was great for the few days we spent there. The get more than their fair share of rain during the year but we managed to avoid it.<br><br>With Father's Guest House we booked the next trip onwards to the Perhentian Islands. When the bus turned up on time and it looked exactly like the pictures we knew we weren't in Indonesia anymore. <br><br>

... Vooral een gesprek over de boze geesten in het regenwoud zal ik niet gauw vergeten. Bijna allemaal hadden ze het over concrete ervaringen in de jungle waarbij een geest de persoon in kwestie aanspoorde om een bepaalde richting uit te wandelen in het woud wat bijna gegarandeerd tot verdwalen en wanhoop zou leiden. Ze vertelden me dat het prevelen van enkele koranverzen en opperste concentratie de enige middelen zijn om de de geest weg te jagen en dat lukt meestal ...

... below, and the tigers might end up fighting over it, but it turns out the bucket had stopped by a large wooden post/pole. The largest of the three tigers, obviously the dominant male, ran up, climbing/running up the wooden pole in about 2/3 long quick strides and swung a paw at the food pulling it down and feasting on it below. A park attendant then stood up fairly near us on a raised stage and called the three tigers over to the closest point they could get to the visitors; on ...

... final round (only knocking down 5 pins and then getting a gutter ball on the second throw) because I was distracted by the 2 people either side who decided they'd feckin' bowl at the same time that I was! Either way, it is a score that Sam and Rob are hopefully happy with, haha! (Tom: Rich - you are soooo sad detailing the scores on the internet...!) We played some more cards and decided/planned what we were going to do for the rest of our time in Malaysia (other than ...

... and hang out here for the week as we were also inundated of requests for things to do. We bumped into Hanz heading back into town; he was staying in 100 Cintra Street with us and cycling down Malaysia so he joined us for beers in ...

... I wanted to find somewhere close by and as soon as possible. My initial worry was that no hotels would be open this late, but finding them all active 24 hour, what I actually should have been worried about was that they were all full. The first hotel I tried was on the 4th floor of the bus station, which had rediculous lifts whith doors that closed so quickly that by the time everyone had got out on the bottom floor, they had already shut and gone back up without anyone ...

... there an industry of agriculture here, but there is agro-tourism as well. In fact, so much, that you can barely walk ten feet without seeing a sign for or being offered a tour of various and sundry farms. The good news is that we took advantage of this and visited the Boh tea plantation where we got a very interesting and informative tour of the factory (did you know that green, white, and black tea all come from the same plants?); had a ...

... Bus TO&gt;&gt; Puduraya Station, Kuala Lumpur ( RM 3.50) From Puduraya Bus &gt;&gt; Bus TO&gt;&gt;Ipoh Bus Station (RM 13) Then, from Ipoh Bus station our friend's mom pick us up..

... of where I might go and what I might do in Australia. 3 a.m. Saturday morning was the consolation finals for the rugby world cup. Afterwards, I went out for a traditional dim-sum breakfast with Goh's family. The next evening was the finals, where New Zealand one in a very uninteresting match. It was a short rest after that before eating lunch and getting a lift back to the bus station to catch a ride down to Kuala Lumpur.