Ampang Tourist Attractions, Activities and Hotels Guide

Ampang Jaya is a township in the state of Selangor. It is commonly known as just Ampang, a common place name in Malaysia not to be confused with Ampang, the Kuala Lumpur district, and Jalan Ampang, which is another major street in Kuala Lumpur. The most popular attraction in Ampang is the National Zoo of…

Chuping Tourist Attractions, Activities and Hotels Guide

Chuping is a small town located in the state of Perlis. Chuping is mainly an agricultural town, with about 22 thousand hectares of land devoted to rubber estates and sugar cane plantations. The sugar cane plantation in Chuping is by far the biggest in Malaysia, with factories producing 5500 metric tons of sugarcane daily during…

Wang Kelian Tourist Attractions, Activities and Hotels Guide

Wang Kelian is a village located at the northern part of the state of Perlis. It is one of the border crossing points from Malaysia into Thailand and vice versa. Wang Kelian is the entrance to one of Malaysia’s newest nature park, the Perlis State Park. The range is a sight to behold, with a…

Bidor Tourist Attractions, Activities and Hotels Guide

Bidor is a small town located in the state of Perak, between Ipoh and Kuala Lumpur. Bidor is an industrial area, where miles and miles of rubber and palm oil plantations can be seen along the trunk roads leaving Bidor. Bidor is perhaps most famously known for its duck-thigh noodle and wanton mee, local delicacies…

Kampar Tourist Attractions, Activities and Hotels Guide

Kampar is a town located in the state of Perak. Once a tin mining town during the 1900s due to its high tin ore reserves, many of these mining activities has since collapsed. However, the abandoned mines that has since formed into ponds that attracts many anglers from around the country. Many people have also…

Gopeng Tourist Attractions, Activities and Hotels Guide

Gopeng is a town located in the state of Perak, within the district of Kampar. Once a town bustling with tin mining, Gopeng has developed to become a town well known for its beautiful rainforest, and local cuisine. The Gopeng Rainforest Resort offers all sorts of packages to explore the beauty of the Gopeng Rainforest,…

Butterworth Tourist Attractions, Activities and Hotels Guide

Butterworth is the biggest town located on the mainland of the state of Penang. It is named after William John Butterworth, who was a Governor of the Straits Settlements during the mid-19th Century. The Malayan Railway has its Penang station in Butterworth, and visitors can also get to Penang Island via Ferry service or the…

Bukit Mertajam Tourist Attractions, Activities and Hotels Guide

Bukit Mertajam: From Agriculture Town to Trade Center, and Home to St. Anne’s Church and Penang’s Delicacies. Bukit Mertajam is a town on the mainland side of Penang neighboring Butterworth. Bukit Mertajam is actually named after a nearby hill, rather than situated on a hill as the name might imply. The roots of Bukit Mertajam can…

Batu Maung Tourist Attractions, Activities and Hotels Guide

Batu Maung is a fast growing town located on Penang Island. Batu Maung is also the location for the recently built second bridge that connects Penang Island to Batu Kawan on mainland. Population has grown rapidly in Batu Maung due to its proximity with the Bayan Lepas Free Trade Zone. A notable attraction in Batu…

Temerloh Tourist Attractions, Activities and Hotels Guide

Temerloh is the second largest town in the state of Pahang after the state capital Kuantan. Temerloh has grown in recent years after becoming a new industrial center and being connected to the newly build East Coast Expressway. Located by the banks of the Pahang and Semantan Rivers, Temerloh is rich with a large variety…

Jerantut Tourist Attractions, Activities and Hotels Guide

Jerantut is a town in the state of Pahang most famously known for being a popular starting point into Taman Negara, Malaysia’s first and largest national park. Taman Negara is one of the oldest tropical rainforest left in the world, home to an endless variety of flora and fauna unique to this region of the…

Bentong Tourist Attractions, Activities and Hotels Guide

Bentong is a town within the Pahang state close to the border of the states of Selangor and Negeri Sembilan. Tin ore is fined from Repas river and Perting river, and it also host on the largest copper wire factory in Malaysia. The botanical garden in Bentung is a favorite among many nature lovers, including…

Kuala Pilah Tourist Attractions, Activities and Hotels Guide

Kuala Pilah is a town in the state of Negeri Sembilan. Most of the town still looks rather ancient, with many pre-war shop house among the main streets still in great condition and some beautifully repainted. Traditional Malay village houses that are built on stilts can also be seen scattered among the paddy fields. Kuala…