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Sixth and Seventh Weeks: Rafting and Botanic Disenchantment

Asia » Malaysia » Perak » Ipoh December 4th 2005

October 10th - 23rd I'm getting fancy with the titles :-) I thought adding the date would be helpful since I'm finally bloging this a month and a half later! We are combining the blog entries for the sixth and seventh weeks because not a whole lot happened to warrant separate entries. The highlights of week six were my IWA meeting and a rafting trip we took with Phil’s coworkers. The meeting was interesting because our guest speaker was Penang’s chief of police. He presented some information on crimes that are of interest to women (purse snatching, rape, etc.) and compared them to previous years in Penang and to the other states of Malaysia. In general we are on the low end, though the police force is infamous for requesting and accepting bribes in exchange for ... read more

greetings from Ipoh

Asia » Malaysia » Perak » Ipoh September 21st 2005

levi

ok i'm keeping this short as i can't face writing my biography. so ileft bangkok on monday after two wet days in krabi, great town just not much to in the rain, so i jumped on a mini bus for an eight hour drive south of the border to penang, george town which is probably one of my favorite places on the trip, I met a german girl on the bus so i've had someone to hang out with, we went up to penang hill to take it the views of the island and ate some amazing indian food, the streets there are really old colonial buildsings some in worst shape than others but the character is falling off them. So this morning i headed down to ipoh which is the 3rd largest town in mayalasia ... read more

Brief history of Malaysia

During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Fe...more history

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