Eco Nature Travel

Taiping is like an old town for old people…but there is certainly lots of things that you can do here…Besides the hills, zoo and prison, there is a beautiful and peace keeping lake of nature called Taiping Lake! The surroundings nature of the lake is certainly amazing…in particular the road from the zoo to the Lake. This stretch of road is grown with trees of about 100 years old or more. Just take a look at the picture down here! I also managed to see a Red Dragon Fly on one of the lake there….What a discovery!

Good Feng Shui around Taiping Lake

Due to the good feng shui of Taiping lake..Do u know Taiping is a rich town in the past and a preference of the rich to retire too? hehehehe….I am not a feng shui master but it is certainly a relaxing place to retire…things are not too expensive compare to urban area.

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Maxwell hills or Bukit Larut – It could be a better place!

I met Ann in Taiping. We then went to Maxwell hill together. We went for lunch and headed to the bottom of the hills to ask for information on the jeep service up the hill. Luckily we checked out the last jeep service to the hills as Ann told me that sometimes they will cancel their jeep service although the last trip should be at 5pm. The cancellation could be either due to weather or the discretion of the operator. Thus, an advice to the tourists who wanted to visit Maxwell hill, checked out the time and reserved a seat on the jeep immediately when you reached Taiping. Not to mention the hotel, better make your reservation. Another thing is bring your own food, instant noodles, cutlery, bread or cereal which could fill up your stomach for the night that you are going to spend up there.

You can’t drive up yourself…you need to take their jeep service. It is about RM 8 for return trip. It is like a roller coaster ride! The route is condition is narrow and windings and be prepared…Don’t go up with full stomach. You may vomit whatever you ate earlier. It takes about 20-25 minutes to reach the top. Don’t worry, all the drivers are skillful enough to bring you to the top and the route could only occupy one vehicle at a time but you can still find people walk up along the way. I heard it takes about 2hours to walk up.

I am glad that we have actually reserved Cempaka Resthouse as it is the only one that has privatized and it looks good. A twin sharing bed room could actually accommodate another two persons as the room is quite big with additional mattress. But there’s no bathroom attached to it. The other guesthouse seems like abandoned and only one or two of the government run rest house was occupied and rented out. One of the guests that we met who stayed in those guesthouse told us that they did not make any reservation but were being told that it was fully booked in the morning but somehow there’s room available in the afternoon.

We were lucky to reserve the privatized run Resthouse where the Tulips nursery located. It is clean and well maintained but the food were sucks and expensive. You can’t do much up there…..It is just a place for u to enjoy the cool and nature surroundings. It will be better if u can get a group of friends to have steamboat up there. However, this place seems not well maintained and developed by the local authority as there are few resthouse seems to be abandoned. If it is well maintained, it could be a better place to enjoy the nature with your family and friends. What a waste of resources! Hope the local authority do something about it.

Let’s discover my adventure in Taiping in my next posts.

It’s only red colour tulips that i see when i was there. Entrance fees will be charged for visitors who visit the tulip nursery after certain period.

The road condition in Maxwell hill and the Roller coaster ride with this jeep is certainly adventurous if u like it.

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