Taiping : the ‘Rain Town’ of Perak

It was my very first visit to Taiping and I naturally wanted to see everything, in one day.Taiping's has '33 historical firsts' of which I only managed to see a fraction of. Some of the more notable first-of-their kind-in-Malaysian-history sites include the Taiping Lake Gardens, Perak Museum, Taiping Prison, Taiping Railway, Taiping Post-Office, Taiping Clocktower, …

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’50:100′ Khuvsgul, Mongolia

According to Worldometer - real time world statistics provider, Mongolia is the- 19th largest country in the world by area - 3rd most sparsely populated (6 people per square mile)The landscape is largely steppe, desert, and semidesert, with 75% of the land used for livestock grazing. And that is what makes the Mongolian road trip …

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