Hong's Little Diary

The most attractive islands of Perak, Pangkor has sandy beaches with lots of water activities. Among them are snorkelling, banana boat, boat tour at the sea, jet skiing or just "syok sendiri " at the beach. For those adventurous kids, you can try WALKING to another ISLAND. Yup. You can actually WALK to an opposite small island at Nipah Bay during low tides. Warning : you must be of minimum height 160cm to walk across ^.^ Or you can cycle around the island and enjoy the scenery. Oh ya. There are many nice places for you to take your photographs as well. Accomodation is not expensive but food maybe a problem. Only Malay food is available near hotels and Chinese food is available at small town. (You will need to drive there and the thing is.. you CANT drive to Pangkor. You will need to rent a car or motorcyle) Anyway that should not be a problem if you are looking for fun water activities at beaches.

Remarks : ALL photos shown in this blog are old photos of me with my friends.





Located near Gopeng, Gua Tempurung is probably the largest natural limestone structure in Malaysia. You will get to see majestic white marble and limestone towers. Gua Tempurung is definitely a place for thrill seekers where you will walk, climb, crawl, slide, and "swim" through the 1.9km of the cave. I am planning to take on the "Gua Tempurung Grand Tour" (most expensive and longest of all) where we will make a river entrance through the cave and back which is priced at RM22 per person. Did I mentioned that the whole journey will need 3 hours? Well since we may not be going there again, why don't we max out our time there? ^.^ I am sure you will be dead tired after that.
Warning : You will be all wet (from head to toe) after the activities and there are some parts of the journey where it will be total BLACKOUT. You will need to "touch" and "feel" your way through. A serious briefing will be needed beforehand.

This place is famous for its pamelo but that will not be the reason to visit the place. The Lost World of Tambun (similar to Sunway Lagoon) is the second water themepark by Sunway group. Pros of this place is that there is hot water section (sometime like sauna in Japenese movie/dramas - open air type) but the cons is that there is no "dry" themepark like Sunway Lagoon. It is located near Ipoh so if you get bored while in Ipoh you can choose to play here.

Waterfall.. A really nice place to relax yourself if you are having tension doing assignments or having exams. Cold water and marvelous scenery to take photo, I would really want to visit this place again. What to play there? Hmm.. Lemme think.. Water.. Water.. and more water? Haha. Just like any other waterfalls, you need to "syok sendiri" to enjoy yourself. I think we are good at that eh AFC high coms? =p

Okay.. Enough of playing. What is there to eat?
Adui.. sabarlah.. tau u orang ni hantu lapar.. ^.^

Been to Old Town Coffeeshop? Well that is some kind of feel that Ipoh provides you with. Being an ex tin mining town, Ipoh was developed by the British back in the colonial days. So Ipoh town itself is historic with many old buildings. Ipoh doesn't really have much to play or visit. But one thing for sure, it has many caves to visit. Among the popular ones are Sam Poh Tung, Perak Tong and Kek Lok Tong. Both of these caves are caves to worship Chinese Gods and Goddess of Mercy (Guan Yin) with a lot of nice scenery to take your photograph. (Good for blogging ^.^) But the main attraction of Ipoh is all its nice food! Warning : Those who are dieting are asked to stop reading now. Curry mee, Chicken Hor Fun (Kai Sze Hor Fun), Hakka Mee, Beef noodle, Prawn Mee, Kangkung Sotong, Chicken with noodles and beansprout (Nga Choi Kai), Chee Cheong Fun, Salted Chicken (Yim Kuk Kai), roasted duck, Pasir Pinji Yong Tao Fu, dim sum, claypot chicken rice, and seriously.. there are still a LOT more to type here.. and I am hungry already. Jackie will be the Ipoh tourguide.