Taiping, Malaysia

... I left Penang at about 12am - that meant getting back on the ferry and arriving on the mainland at Butterworth again. I wanted a bus to Taiping where I would spend the night and check out the Taiping Zoo Night Safari. I had to wait 3 hours for a bus to ...

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Hello again. Just spent the last 3 days in Taiping, is a little town that daves family hail from. With that fact we stayed with his aunty when we were there, which was really good and gave us a chance to save a bit of money. First day we got there we ...

... the length of Stony High Street it used to be really important but now its a bit rundown and doesn't have much importance in Malaysia. But in practise i've liked the places where you don't see the tourists. Real Gap had kindly given a budget of 250 ...

... Penang for Thaipusam. He also agreed to pick us up in the morning to take us on a tour around town. Taiping is the richest state in Malaysia and made its money originally from tin mines. It still remains affluent today - even to the point that there is ...