Ipoh-Through The Mountains 15/2/2014

[Captain_Slash]

Total distance 509 km

The riders

Lip Meng Honda 750 Africa Twin
Colin Kawasaki KLX 250

Three years ago there was none of this, just forests as far as you could see but now theres loads of destroyed dusty looking land

I was surprised to see muddy looking water as theres been no heavy rainfall





Lip Meng hopefully enjoyed the ride as much as I did





Some good twisty bits





Climbing up towards the Cameron Highlands and it was a windy ride going up there with the temperature getting rather chilly



Indian food for breakfast, a lovely start to the day but I was shivering while eating this as its freezing at this high altitude I am and looking forward to descending into the warmth

We stop for breakfast in Brinchang at N04.49136 E101.38906



Great photos today with the sun out and for the first time ever I did not get soaked while up in the mountains







Tonights food was at the Sri Ananda Bahwan restaurant at N04.59327 E101.07661
I started with a chicken curry with rice
Then had a chicken varuval with rice, delicious and 90 Baht the lot

 

[Captain_Slash]

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[lipmeng]

Yes Colin it was an enjoyable ride as the route is one of the best riding roads in Penisular Malaysia. Many local riders will do their weekend rides to Cameron Highlands and the Cameron-Sg Koyan-Gua Musang-Cameron loop has the best mountain views as it cross over the main range of the penisular.

I notice that you can really eat as shown in the dinner pics as I only had a light dinner after the ride. Maybe tired as I have not ride a 500km day ride for sometime.

Cheers

Lip Meng

 

[lipmeng]

Here's some random pics of the ride we had yesterday.



Captain's view...............
Nice open road without much traffic.....compliment with lovely twisties and mountain view.
Local riders favorite route for daily ride.........





A multistrada........opposite direction heading towards Ringlet.



Some mega infra project.........new dam construction along Ringlet - Sg Koyan .

 

[KTMphil]

I can't believe you're south of Penang already Colin, have a great time.

 

[Captain_Slash]

Thanks Phil I will. I hurried down to Ipoh to catch up with Lip Meng before he sets off on his trip.