perak (part 1) -- mee rebus tapah, gua tempurung & plan b

it's my last day in penang and it's the day i headed to perak. pagi2 lagi we walked to weld quay jetty. we took a ferry to cross the laut to get to butterworth bus terminal. it's a good way to enjoy the sea breeze and see penang from a different view. fyi, you have to pay some pengeras to enter the island but to go out of the island (by ferry/car) is free. 

farewell, penang. see you again.

we took the 8.30 am bus to amanjaya, ipoh which should only cost rm15/ person but we kena tipu by this akak cina who charged us rm20. so keji! it took only 2 hours from butterworth to ipoh. my good friend (mustika) drove 1.5 hours all the way from manjung and picked me up at amanjaya to take me jalan2 in perak. so sweeeet! 

we wanted to go to gua tempurung in gopeng which should only took us 30 minutes. but being us the direction-bimbos, we (of course) got sesat and ended up in tapah which is way far from gopeng (like 30 minutes away). no surprise! but little did we know that it was (somehow) a blessing in disguise. we discovered a restaurant which serves tapah's famous mee rebus which is so delicious! 

the super yummy mee rebus tapah.

we turned our way back to gopeng and alhamdulillah we got it right this time! we reached gua tempurung! we were so excited! we wanted to do the extreme tour which involves getting merangkak in gua, meredah sungai and all that tomb raider shit. unfortunately, we didn't dress properly (must wear sport shoes and bring torchlight) and they have limited morning sessions on weekdays. so we could only do the dry tour (number 2: top of the world) for rm9/person. 

gua tempurung people! where you at, where you at?

tow = 'top of the world' tour.

the majestic gua tempurung.

tanggungjawab berselfie jangan dilupakan.

the 1 hour and 40 minutes tour was soooo overwhelmingly surreal! i was blown away by the cave's majestic interior and our sempoi tour guide (abang zaki) made the experience even better! but i tak puas hati tak dapat buat the wet tour so i'm planning to come here again soon for that one. i must!

so surreal!

pembentukan awal kristal.

modern day cavemen.

our sempoi tour guide, abang zaki.

then mus drove us to pekan ipoh because we wanted to chill out at some cool cafe. anehnya banyak kedai tutup. luckily 'plan b' was open. it was an old gudang turned into a minimalist cafe which celebrates yasminism (of yasmin ahmad, my inspiration). the service was a bit slow but my iced mocha (rm13.50) and mustika's iced chocolate was great.

behind me is j.w.w. birch clock tower.

pekan ipoh.

when plan a fails, proceed with plan b.

with my bro, mus.

sedapppp!

pastu mus wanted me to try funny mountain's famous tau fu fa but too bad it was closed :( it was getting dark so mus sent us to aus's place. i stayed at aus's place for a night. before i went to kl the next day, aus took me to some unique places.

to be continued...