Taiping Day 1

Summary:
We needed a break.
We wanted somewhere not too far.
We wanted to go somewhere we both have never been before.
We decided to go Taiping.

Though we had a very very awful experience in Bidor, We stopped by for their famous duck noodle again. :/

Yumm. I love their herbal soup.
(generally i love all kind of soups! ;))

I love petai too but mostly all the people i knew despise it :/

Continue our journey to Taiping:

Taiping is quite a small town but you might still get lost somewhere because the outskirt of Taiping is quite big and there have small villages around the place. We rely a lot on GPS to get to our destination (tourism places), good food and our accommodation. But so far the good food that the GPS brought us haven't been really satisfying thus we went online to check for these "good food". At the end of the day, many food that were recommended by various online websites / GPS didn't exactly made our mouth watered much.

But one thing for sure is, the food prices they charged are really cheap!

Famous chicken rice, not-so-apparently :

i think my mum cooked better!

he's always hungry!

Next, we went to Taiping Equine Park where you can actually ride the horse or feed them:

sze's cousin!

what about english translation?

we didn't want to ride the horses so we chose to feed them. Rm1 for one bucket:

Both of them looked so calm......

I kept hearing voices in my head going round and round telling me that : IT BITES! :( i was super reluctant to feed him :/

super awkward moment with the horse.

Taiping lake is just a stone's throw away:

Best place in Taiping!

The lake is really big and beautiful. Went for a stroll and took a few syok-sendiri pictures. ;)

so calm so peaceful.
But got lots of mosquitoes!

POSER NO.1
(and i'm poser no.1 - 10 -_-)

mmm.
what's better than strolling in a park during sunset? :)
though beach would be more awesome. (i'm going soon yay yay!)

strolling became more like photo-shooting:

picturesque.

spot a cave!

We had a simple dinner and rushed to night safari zoo. Before we made our way there, we had such a hard time deciding if we really want to go for the night safari. It was NOT recommended by a few local people there (including our hotel friendly counter girl and the ticket booth staff herself, can you imagine that! They recommended visiting the zoo day time.). However, because mr.boy hasn't experienced night safari before, we thought we might as well give it a try, it can't be too bad, isn't it?

okay... the night safari indeed wasn't that good. There were trains provided to go around the zoo and they gave a brief, REALLY BRIEF explanation about the animal and didn't really stopped to give us the time to view the animal clearly. So after the train ride, we decided to walk ourselves around the zoo since we paid to have a good look of these animals.

Thank God for baby's iphone who has like the brightest "torchlight" in the world! :P The whole time when we were walking around the zoo, there were hardly street lights at all and the path we were walking were really really dark! You really need a torchlight to guide you around. I got stung by thousand of mosquitoes and was walking in fear because you never know when a human or animal might just popped out, for good or bad cause i don't even know!!

but... surprisingly some of the animals were more active than the daytime. (yes tell me about it, we visited daytime zoo as well, this is how bored taiping is :) )

niki squinting our eyes!

when we visited this horrible camel, it looked really tedious and scary. It was having white bubbles all covering his mouth and acted really strangely. My boy advised me not to go so close because they might spit like how llama or alpaca does. I laughed it off because i hadn't seen a camel spit before! Just went the camel started to act like a freak again (as though being possessed), my boy suggested that we leave. We left and 5 seconds later, we heard a loud sneeze and EWWWW, large amount of white liquid were spit out. Lucky ME! i was standing so close trying to get a good glimpse at the camel! unlucky CAMEL, it might be sick.

spotted a wallaby and hen yabe went to get a close up picture of that small lil creature, it got shocked and stumbled down, as in really literally rolling down :/

cool and calm rabbit.

lalala.