Day 94 - We ate all of our meals in this restaurant as it was close to our hotel, was open 24-hours a day, and had good, cheap food. Last night's dinner was filling, so we were in no hurry to get up this morning. We took our time slowly putting our things back into our backpacks. Then, at around 10:45 we headed back for a lunch rather than a breakfast.
Our hotel checkout time was noon which worked out perfectly as we had a 1:00 PM train back to Kuala Lumpur. We ordered a Grab car which only took around 10 or 15 minutes to get to the train station. The station and Majestic Hotel was built in 1894, so I have taken a little liberty with the colour of the first of the next two images.
It seems as though KTM's Electric Train Service is pretty dependable. Both journeys started right on the dot. We actually got back to Kuala Lumpur a bit early this afternoon. Our GoKL free bus was a little late getting to KL Sentral and pretty crowded after it did. Still, we're back in our place here.
Yesterday was pleasurable and it'd be nice to explore more of the area around Ipoh. As for the city itself, well I'm sure it was quite a place back in its day. That was a while ago, and although the city is Malaysia's third largest, it is not a must see on an initial tour of the country.
I can sort of imagine Ipoh cleaning up and becoming prosperous and gentrified rather quickly. I'm just not sure we'll ever return there to see that day.
