Blogs from Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia, Asia - page 4

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 love!!!! So 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 eaten all week!! Said goodbye to mum :( and got to sorting out our money had lunch then headed for la airport! It still haddnt sunk in by this time. Had more food at the airport then went through to duty free which was crap! lol too much money for stupid things!!! so we ... read more

Road trip in a sketchy Proton Asia » Malaysia » Ipoh 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 terrible, and road signs woeful) and find the way to the road going north towards Ipoh. Stopped at the Batu Caves, where I (like a lot of hapless tourists) was attached by a mob of monkeys after the can of fruit juice I was holding. I had to fend them off, deflecting them in mid air with my rucksack. Nasty little things. The Batu cav... read more

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 Cantonese/Malay 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 would be good places to visit on what was unfortunately a whistle stop tour of Ipoh. Now usually I would not consider Rice, Tofu and pasta soup at 9am in the morning but that was exactly what we did. The place we were taken to was heaving and totally unlike the Korean Kimbap eating places we frequently eat atc. Replete and about 8 pounds heavier a quick trip to ... read more

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 a massive theme park is opening soon. However i found that i actually still remember my way around the town fine and lots of things are the same. We got the bus to the center ans i managed to get off at the right place. The bus driver was confused as he couldn't see why a tourist would ... read more

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 UNL…so we have always been in contact with the family as they keep growing (now with 5 kids!). I can’t believe that it had been 5 years since I was last able to visit. The country is still just as beautiful and HOT as ever…but all of the kids are so much bigger. I guess that happens! We kept busy running errands ... read more