http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Perak/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Malaysia , Perak en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:37:24 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:37:24 UTC Phew... That was a long flight. We started from Calgary at 630 am on Friday and got to Ipoh Malaysia at 9pm on Sunday. We are happy that all the bags arrived with us. All family is waiting for us at the parents' house. The first thing we do is go and get some food. Inga is happy to get Ikan Baka. Ikan Baka is a grilled fish with spices. Stingray. David gets his curry noodle soup and we a http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/blog-350109.html Our ferry from Koh Samui was at last a proper car ferry. No more sea sick passengers as we previously had on the smaller ferries. We soon arrived back on mainland Thailand and were taken to the bus station in Surrathani possibly spelt wrong. We decided to go to Hat Yai as it was a fair way south and we've hardly moved geographically over the last 2 weeks and also we were told it has good tra http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/blog-346826.html After another stupidly uncomfortable night outside KL's low cost carrier terminal we peeled ourselves from the benches and hopped on a few buses.Our next destination and last main stay in Malaysia was the small friendly island of Palau Pangkor......A place where the locals go for the weekend or a well deserved break I was starting to regret not straying from the main tourist trail in Malaysia http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Pangkor-Island/blog-343905.html Malaysian food is famous especially due to its variety as well as the taste. In one word simple irresistible. My brother in law Chee Wei was studying feverishly for his Master in Engineering and his final exam ended on 29th August 2008. They decided to follow me and Mei Yun on a 'eat till you drop' trip to Perak. Perak in English is known as Silver. While we do not produce silver but the food http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/blog-321817.html The mainland of Malaysia receded in the backwash of the ferry as we settled in for the 30minute ride. This would be peanuts compared to the 4 hours bus ride we had just completed from Cameron Highlands to the pier at Lumut. Our destination was Pangkor Island Pulau Pangkor a small green enclave off Malaysia's west coast. The concrete dock led to a reception room which in turn led outside to http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Pangkor-Island/blog-314967.html The overnight bus is an hour a latehellipand thatrsquos the good bit because the Air con is broken and is freezing cold for the next 6 hours. The driver drove like a maniac we get about 1 hour sleep between us and arrive in Ipoh at 5.30amhellip.Nothing is open until 10am. Great. For breakfast we find dosa an upside down coffee and kickapoo juice. We leave our packs at the hotel and http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/blog-313797.html Large trees with footlong broad leaves and boxshaped fruits stretch almost parallel to the sand out towards the sparkling sea providing a natural canopy under which to escape the heat or the rain. Under the trunk of one is a triangular mosquito net mine with sand piled on its sides and attached to wooden sticks in the corners to keep out vermin and mosquitos. Draped widthwise and covering h http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Pangkor-Island/blog-294665.html These are all photos of when we walked up to the viewpoint on Ko Phi Phi to see the sun set bit cloudy but nice view all the same. There seem to be several pictures of ladies bottoms might have to have words with John about that http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/blog-290231.html We have made it to Malaysia after a somewhat gruelling 12 hour journey from Railay Beach pronounced in a long rolling strangely Jamaican sounding accent to Georgetown in Penang not nearly as long a journey as the travel time would indicate Thai minibus transits are maybe not as efficient as you would hope.We started to notice that things were changing as we got towards the border. Suddenly http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/blog-290228.html I arrived at the train station just in time for departure. They changed the platform very last minute with a mumbling announcement one cannot quite make out what it's about. I asked the conductor and was able to get on the right train. I always have the fear of getting on the wrong train and find out hours later that I'm in a place far far away from where I want to be. The late night trip was slig http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/blog-289244.html I'm back on the computer again hopefully with long enough to get down everything I want to and check for the numerous typos that I make. The state of my last blog was frankly appalling. I shall try harder this time. Zoo Events As I mentioned before I've been placed on the African savannah section of the zoo. Just for two days this placement which is OK with me as there isn't really a great dea http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Taiping/blog-278570.html It's been a little while since my last blog as I have been a busy little zoo man. I have many things to witter on about so today I'm going to be efficient and use headered subsections. Marvel.The ZooniverseBeen having a fine but utterly exhausting time of it at the zoo. I spent three days with the chimps which was a bit of a chore as the main ape keeper clearly doesn't like having volunteers th http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Taiping/blog-277707.html Hello there once againI'm going to start this blog with a little explanation of where I am as not everyone seems to know that much about Malaysia. Malaysia is a federation of 13 states nine of which are monarchies split between Malaya the peninsula in the west and Borneo the island in the east which are seperated by the South China Sea. I'm in Taiping a town in the state of Perak in the http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Taiping/blog-274380.html Farewell to Zoo Taiping Thurs 200308And so again another ending. The alarm clock rings its bell and my eyes open up to the last day of being a zoo keeper. We all make an extra effort to get up and out of the house in good time and maybe for the first time we arrive together before 8am. Today has to go well. I don't want to end the zoo experience with a bad taste in my mout http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Taiping/blog-271111.html Here Comes the Sun Bear Mon 1703 180308Hiho motherfuckers back to work. Again getting to the zoo on time doesn't go so well. We line up for our second final assembly. Prayers are said words spoken and old school tunes played loud. Today I'm working with Sun Bears. Jenny volunteers to help out and we meet our keeper Jhotti a 30something Indian guy. Depressingly th http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Taiping/blog-270666.html Lions and Tigers but not Bears Oh My Thurs 1303 140308Today I'm away from the Great Apes and I get to play with the big guns the kings and queens of the jungle. Tim is still unfit for work so Tom is standing in for him today. We begin with the usual stuff sweeping the road clear of leaves and cleaning out the main enclosure. Then we step inside the nigh http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Taiping/blog-269073.html OOOOOOOOOOOOOO Monday 1003 120308Our first day at the zoo and we all struggle out of bed in a daze. So much for being on time. So much for being professional. Everyone leaves in dribs and drabs. I stay behind to wait for Tim and then we move out. We are supposed to be there for assembly at 7.50am but it's gone eight by the time we all arrive. Thankfull http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Taiping/blog-267673.html After Kuala Lumpur and the Race I traveled north east to Ipoh and Kuala Kangsar to see colonial architecture and the Chinese Limestone Cave Temples in Ipoh and the large Palace and Mosque in Kuala Kangsar. Had a great time. Hope you enjoy http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/blog-261776.html To get to Pangkor island we needed to get a bus from Puduraya station to a place called Lumut on the west coast mainland. From here we had to get a boat. Tim had checked with the buses and we set off at 9aam on a very comfortable air conditioned coach. We had one stop along the way for only a few minutes and sure enough as we were told we arrived in four hours. It was a bit confusing as we wer http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Pangkor-Island/blog-250927.html We expected that the bus journey to Lemut the port near Pangkor would take much longer than the 6 hours we had been told so we correctly engorged ourselves on an unhealthy Mc breakfast which we knew would keep our energy levels going for some time. The only problem was that we had a huge cup of coffee and coffee makes us wee like crazy...so we spent most of the journey with crossed legs hoping http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Pangkor-Island/blog-250546.html Like all good blogs this one starts with a man named Roland and a yellow pickup truck.But this isn't any ordinary blog its special a bit like me so I'll do this blog backwards stir things up a bit.Besides a man named Roland makes for a spectacular ending not to mention his yellow truck.So instead I'll start with a group of Swedes...As you may have noticed I have been on Pulau Pangkor an i http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Pangkor-Island/blog-249551.html Due to the winding roads down from the highlands we had a toast to the wonderful drug dramamine before we left. Took the bus down to Ipoh then through Lumut where we hopped on a ferry over to Pulau Pankor a small island off the west coast of Malaysia. We lucked out at each transfer point and only had about 1015 minutes between each leg of the journey. Originally we thought we may have to o http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Pangkor-Island/blog-245519.html After the hecticity I just made that word up of KL I wanted a few days of relaxation. So after running through the lonely planet bible I decided to head for the island of Pangkor. It was a fairly straightforward 3 hr bus journey to Lumut which is the departure point for the island. The boat journey only takes about 20 mins. The island has these shockingpink mini buses which are the local form http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Pangkor-Island/blog-237046.html This section show some photos on the foods that we have taken during the vacation... Yumme http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Pangkor-Island/blog-226745.html We'll there are so many wedding shops here and all they ever play on the radio is english love songs hence the land of loveSo i got in from Craig's at 7 and finished off my packing Went to town with my mumma to get my last minute bits and went to say goodbye to leanne Then it was off to kayla's Got there and she was so frail bless her she looked like she was going to snap she haddnt ea http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/blog-226244.html 20 Nov 2007 to 23 Nov 2007KL Pangkor Laut Resort KLWe spent 4D3N at this so called One Island One Resort multi award winning resort Pangkor Laut Resort by YTL.Inland driving from Kuala Lumpur to Port of Lumut State of Perak took about 4 hours by taking the North South highway exit at Bidor. At Bidor we have took the famours Duck Mee a lot of people recommended. Anyhow to me it http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Pangkor-Island/blog-225302.html Right ok i know last time we were boasting about how good we were being with the old blog updates.....You all knew it wouldn't last rightSo almost 5 weeks on sorry time fly's eh Not really sure where to start now Right....16th Nov Caught the ferry from Kota Kinabalu to Labuan an Island just off the coast of Borneo. The day we arrived was a friday not that we'd noticed as have completely http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Pangkor-Island/blog-224952.html 2890927700282462290920037278092098621435362083620820102122903682519968274253859024471200563052824320259953341030340205512608565292241022010222823207992337619982201082299219968234782015421435201021996836255387133864324030303402890927700282461229036824 http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/blog-211996.html 18Sep2007This is where I was born raised and educated. My home town Taiping situated in Perak Malaysia. Unfortunately my digital camera was running out of battery and I have to used my mobile phone to take some photos of the ever beautiful Lake Garden. But due to poor resolution and late evening the photos does not even justify how breathtaking is this garden. Sorry about that. I de http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/blog-203365.html