Being a self-proclaimed adventure lover (ehem!), I had always wanted to do white water rafting be it in Sabah or here in the Peninsular of Malaysia – so when the opportunity of doing it came about recently, I was MORE THAN EAGER to do it! LOLz It would be my first time doing white water-rafting so I was so damn excited. I was told that it wasn’t as challenging as the one on Padas River (soon baby, soon) in Beaufort, Sabah…
Perak seems to be a state of so much interest to me of late ever since I went to Taiping and later Lenggong and finally Ipoh where I discovered so many amazing things whose existence I had had no idea of before. I had long heard about rafting and caving activities in Perak but I didn’t really give them a serious thought probably because I knew I was going to be here in the Malaysian peninsular for a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong long…
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…