http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Malaysia , Perak , Ipoh en-us Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:54:49 UTC Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:54:49 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 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 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 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 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 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 Road trip in a sketchy ProtonnbspAsia raquonbspMalaysia raquonbspIpoh By justwanderingMarch 28th 2007 Hired a slightly ropey Proton car in KL. At least the air con works well and being a Proton it blends in well with the locals' cars. It's great to step out of this heat into the fridge. Took a couple of hours to explore KL that's one way of putting it... thing is that the map was t http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/blog-151180.html Sat 14th We get up early check out of our hotel Banchoafa and get the minibus from Krabi down to Had YaiHat Yai setting off at 6am. About 11.30am we arrive at HadHat Yai. There the information desk at the train station tells us that it's impossible to get a train to Ipoh. We know it's not it's on the Main 'Singapore to Bangkok.' trainline and has times train numbers and prices all listed http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/blog-148885.html Day 288 15th March Georgetown Butterworth Simpang Jaram Mas It should be less than two weeks now before we arrive in Singapore and we are all alone doing our own thing The trip is nearing completion I wonder how Irsquoll feel when I actually arrive there Actually I feel a mixture of emotions happiness sadness excitement and a fear of the unknownhellip I awoke before anyone el http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/blog-138595.html So after dashing through the poUring rain to Lily's car the rain stopped as suddenly as it had begun and less than an hour later we were sat outside eating CantoneseMalay food. After checking out the deserted and extremely loud nightclub we chilled out alfresco with a couple oF Guinesse's. Lily suggested that an early breakfast followed by a Temple visit inside a cave and waterfall trips w http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/blog-136803.html You should visit my country you would really like it. Lily used to say this with regular frequency during teabrakes at work so when the decision was made to go off teaching sometime later a trip to Malaysia had become more than just a faint possibilty. After confirming with Lily that she was heading back home for Chinese New Year to see her folks and Family in the worlds once Tin mine Capital http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/blog-136787.html Yo People I am in Penang at the moment. We have just come from Ipoh where i visited the center were i did my gap year placement. I was completely disorientated when we arrived at Ipoh because they have built a new bus station miles out from the center of town and taxis over charge to get you into town. Someone is pumping a lot of money into development in Ipoh. Here are lots of new buildings and http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/blog-88896.html Lessons Learned We took the local bus from central Melaka to the terminal on the outskirts at about 11am maybe. Melak was bigger than Johor Bahru and a lot less crazy. Once we'd arrived at the terminal and figured out where the ticket offices were we realised that almost all of the Ipoh buses left at either a 9am or b 9pm. The one exception was a RM28 bus that left at 2pm. After some deliber http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/blog-88893.html I was very lucky to have the opportunity to take a few days off last week to visit my Malaysian family in Seri Iskandar Malaysia. I took a inter Asia airline like Southwest at home from Bangkok and then another little flight about 130 miles north of Kuala Lumpur to meet Norlina and family. Norlina was our first foreign student when I was 10 years old in Lincoln and met her husband Sharil at http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/blog-59194.html October 10th 23rdI'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 laterWe 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 Philrsquos coworkers. The mee http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/blog-30009.html 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 penan http://www.travelblog.org//Asia/Malaysia/Perak/Ipoh/blog-20525.html