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Lenggong Valley: The Latest UNESCO Site in Malaysia

October 10, 2012 jipp Comments 6 comments

Our exploration of Perak continued by heading East towards Kuala Kangsar before turning south towards Lenggong Valley. Now, Lenggong Valley might have surprised a lot of people when it became the only fourth UNESCO World Heritage Site in Malaysia after Mount Kinabalu, Mulu, Malacca and George Town. Whenever I come to a country for the first time, I’d usually search for its UNESCO World Heritage sites knowing that it’s going to be worthwhile to visit every one of them. I…

Exploring PERAK: Taiping

September 30, 2012 jipp Comments 8 comments

I had never been to Perak despite having spent so many years in the Peninsular of Malaysia. I mean, I did drive across Perak on my way to Penang at least a couple of times but I didn’t really stop to explore any further than its RnRs. So when a friend of mine came up with the idea of joining the Taiping International Marathon 2012, I jumped at the idea and registered myself almost right away. Taiping would be hosting…

Taiping International Marathon 2012

September 20, 2012 jipp Comments 2 comments

If you’ve been following me on twitter, you’d expect me to write a lot about the just concluded Taiping International Marathon 2012. I’ll try to make it as short as possible though. First, the race-pack collection. The race pack collection as stated on the website was to take place at an MPT Hall. I didn’t know that a field is also called as ‘hall’ in Taiping. It was so hot there there was no way I could stay there longer…

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