Sun Inns Ipoh

... and chicken and noodle soup mmmmmm<br><br>Tomorrow i am off again ... this time i am taking the 7.30 coach to Taman Negara ... i am not sure whether i will get internet there so dont panic if you dont here from me for a few days .... Also it is a festival here Sat/Sun/Mon so everywhere will be busy! For those that are wondering why Taman Negara?? Well it boasts the longest and highest rain forest treetop walkway ... Yay .. more trekking!!!<br><br>Bye for now everyone<br><br>C xxx

Jow!<br><br>Ik ben nog maar een goeie 10 dagen weg en toch lijkt het alsof ik al te veel meemaakte om op te noemen. Alvorens hierop in te gaan enkele algemene indrukken: Het is hier onzettend heet en vochtig en wanneer ik 5 minuten buiten wandel plakken al mijn kleren aan mijn lijf. De mensen zijn klein in gestalte, supervriendelijk, gastvrij, respectvol en spreken verbazend goed engels. Eten en onderdak zijn spotgoedkoop (1 euro voor een lekkere eenvoudige maaltijd ...

... weren&#8217;t paying 150 MYR. We stayed in the embassy hotel a dingie Chinese run hotel in Ipoh city centre. Ipoh was no place to hang around. On most of the street corners we passed there was a couple of women of ill repute. I&#8217;d like to stay, however, a lot of them looked suspiciously manly and so I would have to call them prostitutes instead. We went to bed relatively early in order to pick up our bus tickets at 7 am and get on the bus at 8 ...

... us because of my hat, oh yes! It either looks that good, or that bad; and it's probably the latter. One of the times we went on Tube Raiders, we decided to go on the ride 2nd from the right, which was a closed tunnel all the way down, so it was completely pitch black. I decided I would go at the front for this one (because they are 2 seater tube floats) as I'd been at the back all the other times, even though there was a warning sign that the heaviest person should be at ...

... world". 5 minutes later he offered us some bananas for free! haha. and then let us keep the rest of the bunch, which we gladly accepted an feasted on for breakfast the following morning. He also claimed that Tom was "a joker!", and that he was also "not the most wisest in our group, but the most wildest!" (Tom: After he had asked us our ages and I had claimed that I was the oldest and therefore the wisest) haha. He also said he enjoyed Thailand because of the women in ...

... the point that there is no local transport. Taiping is also the rainiest place in Malaysia. It sits on the ridge that dissects the country down the middle and usually one side of the country will always be in rainy season as it ...

... as just at that moment there was a space in the traffic and I legged it across the road to find that, although there were a few customers sat in the back, the front seat was free! The taxi driver charged me 2 ringgit back to Tanah Rata, and this combined with the bus fare of 2.60 RM gave me a total cost of under 5 ringgit for the day - as opposed to the 50 ringgit or more it would have cost to get a taxi there and back. Plus I benefitted from the views and had quite an ...

Had breakfast in Dim Sum restaurant. Very nice dim sum even for me who don't usually eat dim sum. After that, we went to San Bao Cave and Kellie Castle. Dinner, Ya Chai Chicken. Another must-eat-thing in Ipoh. The rest of the night time was used to chat (really chat alot o.O) and do YS's birthday present - &#35760;&#31054 ...

... warranty questions later that she would try the working pair of batteries. Sometimes. At the visitors center we read a lot of material about the Boh company and the process of making tea. There was also an informational video that turned into a rather long-winded commercial about Boh teas. Then we took a very short tour of the factory to see the tea-making process. Of course, we finished up with Palas Supreme (the ...

... also the kind of guy that will forget to tell his mom that some strange, white guy is coming to live in her house for a little while. Luckily, he has a very nice family and they were very welcoming. His house was everything I had hoped it would be - I was able to get all my laundry done, got in some great home-cooked meals, and had free access to the internet. I even got a mat on the floor in my very own room. Malaysia ...