Ipoh is the state capital of Perak. It is located north to Kuala Lumpur, about 2 hours and 15 mins travel duration by car or 15 mins travel duration by airplane. The city is a much more peaceful place if compared to the busy and crowded Kuala Lumpur. Many local residents take it as the best place of living for retirement.
Oh yea, by the way, Ipoh is given the beautiful name as "Hill City" since it is surrounded by hills.
Even in the heart of the city, you wouldn't expect to see many high floor buildings. Why? Because of the restriction rule from the state government. Why again? You may find a clue for the answer from the name "Hill City".
Since Ipoh is surrounded by hills, there would be a problem for the landing or take off of airplanes larger than Boeing 737. Hence, there is no international airport in the city. This is also the main reason of the existing rule to restrict building heights in the city.
It is true that Ipoh may not have many popular tourist attractions, such as high profile beaches and sunshine in tropical countries.
But it is also true...
... that Ipoh presents its uniqueness to the eye of the world by providing peacefulness, relaxation, choices of delicious food, historical buildings art, limestone cave temples etc.
Cave Temples
Threes main limestone cave temples in the city are Perak Tong, Sam Poh Tong and Kek Lok Tong. For your information, "Tong" means 'cave' in Chinese.
It's a 2 days 1 night trip which costs Rm 60 including accomodation and bus fee(college bus). I'll join next time if there's any trip like this cos it's gonna be very very boring to be in the hostel during public holidays kay like yesterday. I'd been watching this "Gem of life" and finished it means Episode 82! !.....I want to collect more hillsongs but didn't know where else to get it except from friends or from the net!.... Fine let's get back to the trip.
Historical Buildings
Lagoon Theme Park
Have you ever heard of or been to KL Sunway Lagoon theme park? This is sort of its branch in Ipoh. Another Sunway Lagoon theme park that located at Tambun, Ipoh instead.
The infomation above was taken from the net.^.^
This morning mom told me that she's coming to KL, again, and invited me to go Malacca. Honestly I didn't plan to join them as i went to Malacca before. Plus I haven't got the chance to go to my own church in Setapak this semester and missed 2 meetings on the church camp too.It sounds terible right?...
yea...view Liang's blog for this perak trip...