The first thing that amazed me when I first arrived in Ipoh was the beautiful hills with peculiar shapes. They are scattered all over, giving Ipoh such an amazing landscape that is hardly found anywhere else in Malaysia. If the whole of Ipoh was flooded down in seawater, it’d look like the Halong Bay in Vietnam. The hills really are beautiful. We actually arrived in Ipoh from Lenggong Valley when it was already dark. Being totally disoriented, we had to…
I suppose I don’t have to tell you that most palaces in ‘highly Buddhist’ countries like Cambodia, Vietnam and Thailand require their visitors to be in proper dresses instead of those all-too bearing clothes that you’d probably wear while strutting your stuff on a white sandy beach in Phuket or something. So, the admission fee is USD6.25 (25,000 Riels) and that is like MYR18.50 in Ringgit Malaysia. How worthy it is depends a lot on how you can appreciate what…
It would be our last day in Phnom Penh before we took a bus to Siem Reap the next day. We spent the day before trying to understand what it was in the head of Pol Pot when he tortured and killed thousands and thousands of people during his 4 years of ruling Cambodia. For me, there was no way I could fully understand it but then, whatever happened in the past is going to be a lesson not only…