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[Travel] Bukit Larut / Maxwell Hill, Taiping, Perak

I think this place would be one of the hidden and unknown gem to a lot of tourists that is looking to travel to the northern part of Malaysia, apart from the other famous places like Cameron Highlands, Fraser Hill and Genting Highlands. Below is some quote taken from the wikipedia post.

“Maxwell Hill was named after William George Maxwell, who was the British Assistant Resident in Perak”

Direction to Bukit Larut (Maxwell Hill) via Google Maps
Direction to Bukit Larut (Maxwell Hill) via Wikimapia

It’s also known among the locals that this place was once known as “Kopi-Sua” (Coffee Hill). But you could hardly see any coffee related plantation on the top except for cozy resorts.

Panoramic view from top of the hill.

Some of the floras. Head on and click on read more to look at the hidden beauty of this place.

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[Travel] Journey To the North

This 2009 Chinese New Year has been a mixed bag of emotion to me. It’s not bad while it’s not entirely good? But one thing definitely strucked me good is no matter how bad the situation tend to be, be it psychologically or financially, the Chinese would try their best to celebrate this event no matter what. The whole one week experience riding up North from the city to outskirts area has been fun. Running across from Kuala Lumpur, Selangor, Perak and Pulau Pinang. Almost 4 states in total.

And first and foremost, let me introduce my little humble extra companion! The almight D60! Not all pictures taken on this post are captured by this camera, well if you still remember my good old Fuji F11.

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