The mountain road to Simpang Pulai

Peace be upon you. Continuing the storytelling from the article Up the highest obvious peak at Cameron Valley.

Sunday morning 27th August 2017. After spending a night at Tanah Rata it's time to leave the Cameron Highlands.

Heading north pass Brinchang and Kampung Raja we soon arrived at this junction.

Turning right would have lead us to Gua Musang in Kelantan. We went left to get to Ipoh in Perak.

The road then started to wind down to lower altitudes towards Ipoh... or rather towards a place called Simpang Pulai.

The last time we took this road was probably 7 years ago. There had been some changes including this cliff-side platform of sorts ...

But still views of the sceneries are essentially the same... beautiful as ever...

I was particularly impressed by the shape of this mountain.

 

After some time we arrived at a part where the road is divided by cement blocks.

That followed by views of limestone hills indicate we were getting close to Ipoh.

Simpang Pulau refers to a junction where  the road meets the old north-south trunk road. From the junction it is about 10 km to Ipoh city centre...