New year? The
continuation of the journey I’m going to present to you righr now… Very sorry ah, take a long time to update my blog...
*This is almost similar to the previous blog post in 2016 (https://eduardowongjz.blogspot.my/2016/12/my-perak-trip-2016.html) as My family and I travelled back again to Taiping in Perak State.
On the 4th
day (20/12/2017), we had finally begun our trip in the tranquil town of Perak State –
Taiping.
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| Perak State map... |
Taiping
As I mentioned above,
Taiping is a tranquil and peaceful town in Perak state. This is because the
town is quite far from the hustling and bustling cities such as Kuala Lumpur,
Ipoh and Penang… The town itself is located between two major cities in
Peninsular Malaysia which are Penang and Ipoh. Therefore, many travelers and
tourists will probably stop over here before they go to Penang, Ipoh or even
back to Kuala Lumpur.
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| Taiping lake garden (1) |
Taiping town is being famous
for its Bukit Larut, Mangrove forest and fishing village at Kuala Sepetang (15
km from Taiping).
My family and I
travelled to these places:
Bukit Larut
Bukit Larut (or being
known as Maxwell Hill) is much like the Cameron Highlands style, except there
are no vehicles allowed to go up the hill (because the route is very steep and
only the jeeps of Municipal of Taiping are allow to go up hill). The hill is
1036m above the sea level. Maxwell Hill was named after William George
Maxwell, who was the British
Assistant Resident in Perak. Last but not least, bonus fact: Bukit Larut is
also the wettest place in Malaysia where it has the highest volume of rainfall
compared to other parts of Malaysia.
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| The peak of Bukit Larut |
You also can opt to
hike up to the top of hill, if you a lot of stamina to do so… The jeep or four
wheel drive service is also available there for tourists to go up hill… The
price is RM10 per person…
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| Road to the peak... |
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| Peak of Bukit Larut |
Here’s the view on top
of the hill…
Taiping lake garden
Taiping Lake Gardens (Taman Tasik Taiping in Malay)
is the first public garden established during the British rule in Malaysia.
The garden is located near Bukit Larut,
and is equidistant to the town centre and the Taiping Zoo.
Besides, here’s the brief history lah… The Taiping Lake Gardens was originally
a mining ground before it was established as a public garden in 1880.
There are many locals
there who jogs at the garden every morning, while the tourist come there to
take some iconic pictures… (P/S: we just passed by here because later we go to
Kuala Sepetang)
Kuala Sepetang
Kuala Sepetang (or
being known as Port Weld) is the first port build in Malaysia. However, the
role of the Port Weld was diminishing after the other ports such as Port Klang
(Port Swetttenham) was build. Kuala Sepetang also has the Malaysia’s first
railway that linked with Taiping town, but unfortunately it was being
dismantled for a long time ago… The only thing left is the Port Weld railway
signboard…
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| The view of the fishing village from the bridge that connecting two parts of the fishing village |
Kuala Sepetang is now
an ordinary chinese fishing village in Perak… Albeit of that, there are still
many tourists (including us) flock into the village to visit certain places
right here…
There are...
It is also few hundreds meter away from the fishing village...
Charcoal Factory
Watching fireflies at
night
*There are many
fishermen make use this opportunity by taking tourist to watch fireflies at the
mangrove forest at night to gain extra income.
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| Night view of the dock... |
Last but not least, makan
seafood there…
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| Porridge seafood @ Foo Man Lou (A restaurant at Jalan Kuala Sepetang - Taiping)... |
On the fifth day
(19/12/2017) we had lunch in the Larut Matang food court before we go back to
KL… What really I amazed was there were different races do business in a food
court (really hard to find in KL).
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| Larut Matang Food Court... |
The trip ended.
In conclusion, this
Northern Peninsular trip was like an ecological trip, for me lah… This is because
we had been went through lots of places from paddy fields to the mountain and
to the fishing village…
