After much procrastination, we finally made a day trip to Taiping on last Saturday. It was definately a worth while drive there as we managed to visit a few interesting places with the help of hubby's colleague whose hometown is in Taiping. We started our journey from Penang before 9am as we wanted to reach Taiping Zoo before 10am to join the animals feeding session. However we only managed to reach 15 mins past 10 oclock due to some traffic congestion. The crowd was quite big that day due to school holidays and also the Raya break. We decided to take the free tram ride around the zoo as Jared has not been on one before. He sat quietly on hubby's lap throughout the journey, looking very curious and also excited to see some of the animals. Emily was really excited too as she has never seen most of the wild animals in real life. After the ride, we decided to walk around to visit some of the interesting animals like the elephants, lions, tigers, tapir, giraffes and many others. We left the zoo after about 2 hours.
Hubby's colleague came to meet us after that, he brought us to a seafood restaurant quite far out of Taiping town which is a fishing village. It was already after 1pm but there was still a big crowd waiting to be seated in the restaurant. We waited for almost half an hour before we got a table and another 1 hour for the dishes to arrive, phew.....
After lunch, we went to visit a charcoal factory, which was a good experience for everyone especially Emily. There was a worker who helped to explain the charcoal making process. Emily definately enjoyed herself here as she got to experience removing tree bark from the tree trunks.
We then headed to the mangrove forest reserve nearby to the charcoal factory. It was a big area where there were wooden platforms extending out to the mangrove swamp area where we could walk. Another good experience for Emily as she has been asking me about how mangrove trees look like.
It was almost evening, so we decided to go to the Taiping Lake for a boat ride before heading home. After the boat ride, I met an ex-USM friend who was there for a holiday too :).
A very tiring day for everyone but we will surely be back to Taiping again :)
Hey, didn't know you blog until i went over Siti's blog and saw your comment on her Raya post.
ReplyDeleteAlso, didn't know there's a charcoal factory in Taiping, where is it located, open to public?
Pet, the charcoal factory is open to public and entrance is free. We only tip the uncle who briefed us the process of charcoal making
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