Perak seems to be a state of so much interest to me of late ever since I went to Taiping and later Lenggong and finally Ipoh where I discovered so many amazing things whose existence I had had no idea of before.
I had long heard about rafting and caving activities in Perak but I didn’t really give them a serious thought probably because I knew I was going to be here in the Malaysian peninsular for a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong long time. LOL.
The opportunity of going there seemed to have found its way over to me when I received a message from a friend asking if I was interested in joining him and some other friends to do rafting and caving in Kampar, Perak.
He actually found a good deal at groupon.my which is something of a craze among Malaysians since recently. Without giving much thought, I gave him a big YES.
With all the technologies that we have nowadays, it wasn’t hard to find Gopeng. One of the rafting staffs was there waiting for us just after we made it past the Gopeng toll plaza. I could not believe my ears when he first opened a conversation with me in Dusun. I mean, they really are all over nowadays, aren’t they? 😀 Continue reading
