• The Mossy Forest - go and explore

• There are walks high up, but you need to check out the routes on Open Street Maps

• It’s hard to find the good things up here, there’s a lot of industrial farming and greenhouses everywhere

• People like Ipoh for the food

• Good street art

• This a beautiful part of Malaysia just south of Ipoh

• White water rafting

• Camp by the river by bike

• Explore little villages

• Access a few waterfalls

• This place is amazing, a huge cave system with some massive caves

• The caves are full of trees where the roof has fallen in

• There is a maze of paths and ladders to move around

• When we went in 2022 it was all free, might still be

• At some point in the past someone built ladders and tried to turn it into a tourist attraction, but I'm yet to meet a Malaysian who has ever heard of it.

• We went there by accident and absolutely loved it, a real highlight of Malaysia

• Take a cheap boat trip up the river and swim

• Wander around the nature trails and canopy walkway

• Pristine and very old jungle with some huge trees

• If you do go up river, there's a great spot for swimming and jumping off the rocks, which is a short walk from the last point the boats can take you to

• This is an excellent waterfall with camping nearby

• You can ride to the end of the road, camp at one of the two or three campsites where they will give you a platform, a roof and also possibly gas and cooking stuff

• There's a nearby small shop selling not much, but if you're hungry or thirsty it's great

• The trail to the waterfall may not always be open, but even if it's not officially open, you can easily just go up the river, or down a trail by the campsite and past a fallen fence

• The end of the road is about 2.5km past the campsite, and it is a further 1km of walking to the nearer Twin Falls and another 1.5km to Berkelah falls

• From the Twin falls you can either just clamber up the river or there is an indistinct trail

• Weirdly, the river may be dry because the water goes underground just below the Twin falls.

• This town used to be a very rich tin-mining place, founded in the early 1900s with electricity, cinema, gas station, schools, hospital etc

• Tin mining eventually stopped, the town emptied out, and then the Malaysian government started to promote it as a tourist destination

• It's full of old buildings, some falling apart, some preserved, some still used

• There's a museum to explore

• It's full of Chinese people who came here with the tin industry, so there are lots of Chinese restaurants and businesses

• Another highlight are the many suspension bridges used by motorbikes, pedestrians and also cyclsits

A place for surfing

A few cool cafés and restaurants

A few places to stay

There's a turtle sanctuary nearby, which is great if you're there at the right time of year