Regalodge Ipoh

... je je in het chaotische en levendige Chinatown of Little India. Ik heb wellicht het meest van Kuala Lumpur genoten dankzij medereizigers die ik in het hostel leerde kennen. Ze bombardeerden mij meteen met hallucinante reisavonturen en sommigen zijn al meer dan 2 jaar onderweg en anderen hebben al in 5 verschillende landen gewerkt, allemaal ontzettend verrijkend en interessant gespreksvoer. De avonden spendeerden wij en nog veel anderen meestal met wisky en een ...

... was the only way to enter into the jungle. It was great fun and then we left the jeep and trekked on foot to look at the biggest flower in the world - the rafflesia. Also visited a village near the jungle. Basically just did some walking around but was not really in contact with the villagers. We then stopped for lunch and in the afternoon we visited a tea ...

... Tom and I instantly smashed our heads against the side of the ride at quite a speed! Neither one of us knows quite how it happened, or who hit their head first, but it ****ing hurt! When Tom smacked his head, (the top side of his head), his vision went white for a few seconds, whilst I cracked my temple and the side of my face leading all the way down to my eye. I don't think I got hit as bad as Tom. All I remember is smashing my head, the tube flipping right over, then sliding ...

... close, flash their lights at you until you pull over to let them pass.<br><br>The scenery was predominantly palms (palm oil plantations) for as far as the eye could see.<br><br>Frequent clean and tidy service areas along the motorway made the trip more comfortable and most of them had rows and rows of different ethnic foods which we often sampled. <br><br>We encountered many Muslim people along the way and ...

... me to struggle alone. We found out that his name was Mohinder, and that he was originally from Bangladesh. He was a lovely and polite, but unfortunately he wasn't always easy to understand. He had a thick accent, which I could get past, but his sentence structure was all messed up, so it made it hard to follow what he was trying to say. We managed to work out that he seemed to be homeless (also visible from his clothes), but had found work in the local temple and was ...

... in touring around was nonexistent but we did manage a picture outside. Our next stop was more interesting though - Matang Mangrove Forest Reserve. It would have been great to stay a night there as it sounded amazing how the ...

... on the side of the road, which happened to be the home of a vicious colony of ants, as it poured with rain outside. I was dying for the toilet and as I looked about for a suitable location, the driver anticipated me and produced an umbrella! I hopped over the barrier and ventured down the grassy bank, slipping over once, to find some cover in the pouring rain! Back by the bus, another passenger - a muslim woman called Yusra who was 41 but looked in her 20s - started chatting ...

... LY purposely bought Chee Cheong Fun for us.. wa... thank you~~~! too bad you couldn't join us. Dinner was settled at a hawker centre, and YF, BY and I went to bought some Secret Recipe's cake secretly and wanted to give YS and LP a surprise. Two June birthday girls... Back to YS house, play the 'car racing' board game again, and BY said cannot play chess anymore, because she couldn't play, and she was sien~ ha...Played Loco Roco before sleeping.

... touristy (ie overpriced!!) half day group tour. We did have lots of time to enjoy our tea (even me) and you will be overwhelmed by the number of pictures we took. I think we got a bit carried away on this one - roughly two hundred?!?! Still, it was rather beautiful. And I learned something new - all tea is made from the same leaf, the difference (ie. green tea vs black) is just how long the leaf ferments for. Huh. We also watched the workers picking ...

... before. The next afternoon was lunch in old town, trying the local take on gu chung fun (a noodle dish), a visit to the old railway station (oh yeah, along with all the other cultures going on, Malaysia also used to be an English colony), and some semi-famous caves. And, that night, I went to a Chinese temple for the local version of the Vegetarian Festival where I saw a little Chinese opera. The next day was more ...