Month: October 2020

Kuala Sepetang – Where Laughter Meets Joy

Sonia October 27, 2020 31 Comments
Of course if you are in Taiping you absolutely MUST make a visit to the amazing  Kuala Sepetam - a fisherman's village that will make your camera so hungry that you will find it hard to satiate it. It's pretty similar to many other fisherman's villages, I must admit. It's just that the journey from Taiping as well as other sights around the village make it a bit more fun. That's why I couldn't...

Taiping – Old Is the New Black

Sonia October 14, 2020 32 Comments
Some 266km from Kuala Lumpur, in the state of Perak, further up north from Ipoh, lies a small sleepy town called Taiping. It's not exactly a tourist destination, but it's certainly worth a visit, as goes with many other sleepy towns here in Malaysia. I ventured to this one as part of my recent sudden passion-for-local-travel outburst, which I described in this post. When you have spent years...