Roadtrip #2: to the
About 2 hours later, we have reached our pit stop, Ipoh, where we stop for yum cha lunch and get some of the famous ‘Ipoh White Coffee.'
Durians were also bought….many many durians. I like durian, but 17 is just way too many for 16 people. And... they were put into our car (for those of who don’t know, durians have a very strong smell) so the entire car pretty much smelt like durian!
We reach the hotel in the afternoon and have some durian, mangosteen and some other food. At about 4;30 a group of us are off to explore cactus valley, I’ve never seen so many cactuses in one place before in my life! haha
durian and a rice cracker
Mangosteen
For dinner, we have steamboat. Yummm. Then we head to the markets. There we buy some souvenirs and more food. I especially liked this crepe thing with peanuts. It was like really thin crepe folded over into a 'u' shape and lined with peanuts and is really crunchy.
Steamboat!
The markets
Tuesday 01 December 2009
We wake up early-ish again and drive up a mountain to reach the Boh Tea Centre where we have breakfast. Then we go on the quick tour, like 10 minutes, of the tea factory and learn how tea is made. Lots of tea was also bought from the shop there :)
View from the tea centre
At the tea factory
After that, we go to the Rose Centre where they have lots of absolutely beautiful flowers. The centre was built on a hill so there were lots of stairs to climb up and down. Unfortunately it started raining so we decided to climb back down, not before some nice shots of the view where we stopped climbing, we probably weren't even half way up, there were so many more stairs!
After this, we leave Cameron and have a late lunch/early dinner at a little seafood shop that is about 2 hours away from KL.
We arrive back in KL at about 8pm ish and Mrs Chiyoko and her daughter leave back for Japan.
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