If you've been following our story you know that we spent two months in Ipoh, and then we went up to Taiping for a week.
After that we went back to Ipoh just for a short time for a few more activities that we'll show you and then we came here to Pankor Island.
We've got a lot to show you on this video so let's get started!
If you missed our first video on Ipoh you can click the link that you see there.
When we went back to Ipoh we stayed in the same wonderful apartment with the same wonderful view of the sunrise over the mountains.
One of the activities that we missed last time we were in Ipoh but didn't want to miss this time was a visit to Kellie's Castle.
Here we are in Malaysia ... Who would ever guess there would be a castle here in Malaysia.
This castle was built by a Scottish man in the early 1900s and one thing that is unique about this castle compared to the typical european castle is that it has a mix of Scottish, Moorish and Indian architecture.
Here is what a typical room in this castle would look like.
We really enjoyed our visit, we were the only ones here and had the entire castle to ourselves.
Than's me at the top there, and the reason it was empty of course was because of the interstate travel ban.
You remember from our first video about Ipoh that we went paddle boarding with Nomad Adventure.
After that great paddle boarding experience we decided to do some cave exploring with Nomad Adventure,
and the guide who went paddle boarding with us, his name was Iskandar, also took us through the cave.
This cave is called Gua Tempurung and it is massive, in fact it is one of the biggest caves in peninsular Malaysia.
There were a lot of stairs to climb, and I mean a lot.
And since we were on a tour we were able to go through the water section of the cave.
And when I say the water section, I mean actually walking in the water in the dark.
Alright we just finished the water section, coming out of the cave now, it took about half an hour and we were crawling on our hands and knees in the water for part of the time.
We had never been cave exploring like this before and this was such a unique experience for us.
Ipoh has great temples and great parks but this is something we will probably remember the most about our time in Ipoh.
After we finished our cave exploring we had lunch in the nearby village and some of the best food in Malaysia can be found in the Kampung.
These are sometimes hidden out of the way places out in the villages where local people congregate and the food here is just amazing.
So that wrapped up our second visit to Ipoh this year, and then we left Ipoh and went to Lumut so that we could catch the ferry to Pankor Island
We arrived in the middle of the week and as you can see here we had the entire beach to ourselves.
It was so quiet and peaceful and beautiful.
We enjoyed a nice meal on the beach alone just the two of us at the restaurant.
Then we wandered around a little, and while exploring we saw some monkeys playing on a swing
we saw what I think is a praying mantis
We also saw a whale. Okay it wasn't a real whale just a rock that looked like a whale.
And we saw many many hornbill birds here.
And not only did we see the hornbills, we actually got to feed them dinner too, take a look
He's sneaking up from behind, making his move, and score!
We took a boat out to an island to go snorkeling but it wasn't our best snorkeling trip.
It was really windy as you can see from the tree here and that made the water rough,
the water was a bit cloudy, my wife got seasick, the snorkel mask that I rented got washed away into the ocean and so i had to pay for a replacement.
We had a much better snorkeling experience on the Perhentian Islands.
But the swimming was really good here on Pangkor Island.
Even though the water was rough at the snorkeling island it was much more calm at the beach and the water nice and warm. We went swimming every day.
I was telling you how quiet it was here and we had the beach all to ourselves, well that's because we arrived here in the middle of the week.
When the weekend came it got much busier here, you can see all the people.
But this is good! The tourism industry is suffering now with Covid so it's nice to see that the vendors who rely on tourism here on Pankor are getting some good business on the weekends.
During our time on Pnagkor Island we stayed at the NMY Hotel, except for the last night, and I'll explain that in a minute.
But the NMY Hotel was really nice, a very new hotel,
the rooftop pool had a great view of the sunset, and it was located in the Coral Bay area of the island.
Now for the last night we wanted to do something extra fun so we stayed at The Fish House.
This is a family-run guest house and it is built on stilts over the water, and this was so much fun!
You can see the view of the water through the window of our room there.
They had fishing poles if you want to go fishing. We love just hanging out on the hammocks they have.
There's, I don't know maybe 10 or 15 rooms they rent out,
but we were the only ones there and we had the entire place to ourselves.
The guest house is in a much less touristy area it was right next to a shipyard where the local craftsmen were building a new boat.
It was also near a local seafood production facility,
and it was near a mosque that actually looked like a Chinese temple but no it was a mosque.
But there is a massive Chinese temple nearby and we never would have expected to see a temple like this on Pangkor Island.
The temple even had a small replica of the Great Wall of China.
All right guys, well some sad news, it looks like our time here Malaysia might be wrapping up.
We're not 100 sure though, we're still waiting for some more information.
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