When Penang is crawling with traffic and people , we sometimes go further up north and explore the quiet countryside in Perlis .
There are many routes you can take besides the regular North South expressway . Because of the vast rice fields , you can go into a town one way and exit another way via another thoroughfare .
Boring is what you make of it and have we had some stories to tell each time we made it through the smallest state in Malaysia .
We have been to Wang Kelian , walked across to Thailand and back without a passport . That was amazing . You can't do that anymore mind you .
Driven through the massive sugarcane plantations in Chuping . Beautiful then , not so now .
Taken the old highway all the way up to Kangar .....Once during a normal morning where the farmers had just come out for breakfast ( very quaint experience ) another during the muslim fasting month ( which we never want to do again as the entire state was almost devoid of people and other conveniences therefore soooooo creeepy !!!!) .
This time however , we took a different route
