Syuen Hotel Ipoh

... op het dak van een nabijgelegen hotel en ik kan me geen beter gezelschap voorstellen om mijn eerste vier onzekere nachten mee door te brengen. <br><br><br><br>Na 4 dagen was ik de drukte toch een beetje beu en vertrok ik naar Taman Negara, het oudste regenwoud ter wereld dat 2x zo groot is gelijk Luxemburg. Ik genoot ten volle van de ontspannen en authentieke sfeer van de omliggende dorpjes en terwijl ik in een restaurantje mijn curry noodles verorberde kwam ...

... Boh tea), a strawberry farm and there was also a stop at a zoo of reptiles and insects (we opted out of this one!!) Morning was way more impressive than the afternoon and it is also offered as a 1/2 day tour. Totally enjoyed Tanah Rata and Cameron Highlands and again would definitely recommend a visit here even if most (if not all) accomodations are very basic!!!

... the rest of the slide on my front feet first. We both came out at the bottom without the tube! The Malayians seemed to find this hilarious, until they noticed us stumbling around holding our heads, when they seemed to look more concerned. We both gave smiles and laughed, which allowed them to continue laughing. Some Malayians collected our tube which was stuck somewhere in the ride and we went to rest. My head was throbbing for about 10-15minutes, it was very painful, but we ...

... burka clad women often appeared to be quite curious of us in a smiley friendly way. They loved me to photograph them.<br><br>We arrived in Ipoh mid afternoon with the temperature still up in the mid 30's and checked in to yet another really nice hotel.'Regalodge'. (Lordy, am I going to be doing it hard when we have to start camping!)<br><br>We headed off for a walk around this very old town, the Provincial capital ...

... to stay there as a result. We also got the impression that we ended up there via some trouble with the police, but the man who owned the temple intervened because he had links with the police, or something along those lines. He tried to tell us about his life story, which was also hard to follow, but what we managed to understand seemed like a hard life; at one point he spoke about one of his previous 'masters' who used to beat him around the neck, shoulder and back ...

... food and recede with the tides and change the shape of the land. The swamps were amazing and the tides were starting to turn and come in but it was time to move on to Ganeson's favourite seafood restaurant. I survived on a couple ...

... me and within 5 minutes was begging me to come and stay with her at her mothers house in KL. As much as I politely declined, she kept on - it was all too much! Eventually two very black and greasy men turned up in an old banger with a bus wheel in the back and set to work changing it, finding the culprit - a huge mass of metal wire wrapped up behind the wheel! In doing this, a reason - of which I am not quite sure - why we couldn't continue to KL and had to switch buses ...

Slept till 12pm and had brunch at Old Town coffee shop. Very nice Char Kuey Tiao. Then YF brought us around Menglembu with her car, and stopped by Railway station to take photos. Very nice railway built during British time. Back to Yf's house around 4pm+, and played a board game (something about car racing, and i forget the game name already XD) till dinner. Yf's mum ...

... leaves for a while; they trim the new green shoots by hand and place into big baskets on their backs. I think the hard part for me would be not to slip on the steep slopes that some of these trees are planted on. We watched one guy basically "surf" down a rather steep slope to get to his picking spot! The weather here is.....well....cold. Not really, I guess but it sure feels cold compared to what we have been used to! It typically ranges from 16-23C ...

... immersion as Goh took me to more local hot spots to try bean sprout chicken, rojak, nasi lemak, laksa, and some ABC - all sooo delicious. Around this time, I flipped over a Community Chest card in my favor - Neteller had finally found a way to release the several hundred dollars of mine they had to lock up due to the side effects of that stupid law congress passed trying to stop people from gambling online, which ...