(written by Dave) Let's start at the end of the day – we are at the Puteri Bayu Beach Resort – in the honeymoon villa no less. If this sounds very glamorous, I should fill in the rest of the details. For starters, there is no water in our villa. We have been told several times … Continue reading No hotel in Pangkor (97/6705 ks)

(written by Nancy) We were up relatively early this morning, trying to beat the heat of the day.  Our plan for today was to visit the Perak Tong cave temple, one of several cave temples around the area.  The temple is about 6k north of the city so we had to take a bus to … Continue reading Exploring the cave temples of Ipoh

(written by Dave) Great day for a bicycle ride. It certainly doesn't hurt the fun level to have 45k of downhill in a 91k ride. I should point out however, it was not all easy-peasy. We started before 8AM after oatmeal in the room. The first 7k were uphill to just beyond the town of … Continue reading Down back into the heat to Ipoh (91/6608 ks)

(written by Nancy) One more rest day here in the Cameron Highlands to make sure we had time to enjoy a proper cup of tea and scones while sitting amongst the tea fields. We caught a cab down to the Cameron Valley Tea Estate about 4k south of where we are staying and wandered the … Continue reading Tea time in the Cameron Highlands

Short post today as there is nothing really to report. It rained heavily most of the day (reminiscent of those rainy Northwest days) so we just hung out at Starbucks reading the paper and surfing the internet and then spent a bit of time cleaning up the bikes. We are taking another day off here … Continue reading Relaxing in the rain in the Cameron Highlands

(written by Nancy) We had another sleep in this morning, followed by some nice but overpriced pancakes at the restaurant downstairs. Dave had one of those pancake cravings again so we took a chance on them in a Malaysian cafe. They were tasty but the stack of three noted on the menu turned out to … Continue reading Into the highland jungle

(written by Dave) We played tourists in Cameron Highland today, that is after a very leisurely morning with brekkie at an Indian restaurant then morning tea immediately thereafter at Starbucks. Eventually we got motivated to take a tour through one of the organised groups called C.S Travel & Tours. The tour included the following laundry list … Continue reading Tourists in Cameron Highlands

(Written by Dave) As you may have guessed from the title we made it to Tanah Rata and the Cameron Highlands.  It was a very hard climb.  Of the 60k we rode, we had 2k of downhill, 4k of flat and the rest was going up.  Of the up parts, about half the time we … Continue reading Conquering the Cameron Highlands (60/6517k)

(written by Dave) Our hotel was quiet overnight, no ants to greet us in the morning at least – a nice change from yesterday.  We were awoken by at least two mosque loud speakers and their 5:30 AM call to prayers.  Being on the fourth floor, we were right at speaker height.  Not having grown … Continue reading Rice fields before the climb to Cameron Highlands (43/6457 ks)

(written by Nancy) Travelling by bicycle is not always fun and glamorous...Our budget hotel last night was one of those budget nights that make you really wish for just a bit more luxury in your life.  Not even luxury, just a clean place to lay your head.  Actually, it wasn't that bad though even Dave … Continue reading On to the leaning tower of Teluk Intan (53/6416k)