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Perak Cave Temple

Perak Cave Temple is a Buddhist temple situated in a limestone hill at Gunung Tasek. Popular for its stunning architecture, it is built into a huge cave with a 40-feet tall sitting Golden Buddha statue surrounded by four guardian deities, called as goddesses. One interesting feature of Perak Cave Temple is the staircase of 358 steps behind the main alter, lined with pavilions and gazebos. The view from the top is spell-binding. Another flight of 400 stairs leads to a double-storey pavilion. The colorful murals on the walls depicts events and characters from the Chinese folklore and Buddhist scriptures. Read More

Sam Poh Tong Cave Temple, situated in Gunung Rapat, is a cluster of three Chinese limestone cave temples adorned with natural and manmade artistic attractions. Ling Sen Tong, Nam Thean Tong, and Sam Poh Tong are the three temples. The oldest and main cave temple in Ipoh; it affords a spectacular view of the town. A major attraction is the reclining Buddha statue. The Sam Poh Tong Cave Temple consists of a columbarium that looks like a 4-story blue apartment with 246 steps to reach an open area to get a mesmerizing and unmatchable view of the Ipoh. In front of the temple is an attractive landscape garden consisting of a large fish pond and a feeding area for fish and tortoises. Ling Sen Tong and Nam Thean Tong are close to each other while Sam Poh Tong is a little further. Read More

The ancient, colonial-era building, Ipoh Town Hall is situated at Negeri Perak. It provides an old and authentic look with its Edwardian Baroque Architectural style exhibiting the long-standing history and mesmerising architectural beauty for the lovers of historical events. The Ipoh Town Hall building provides a grand look even after so many years of construction. Formerly housing many government offices like the Administrative Offices and the Post Office, the building is now used as a venue for weddings and other public events. Ipoh Town Hall also serves as a venue for events like the inaugural congress of Malaya’s first political party among many others. Read More

Gaharu tea valley is a 300 acre agarwood plantation in Gopeng, Malaysia. Agarwood (Gaharu in Malay) is an aromatic resinous wood that forms within aquilaria trees. Blessed with medicinal and healing properties, the agarwood tree plantation in Gaharu tea valley is cultivated to preserve 200,000 aquilaria trees. The tea valley is also home to many other small attractions like The Great Wall of Gopeng, Hilltop Viewing Stage, Lover’s Park, and Tree Hugging Park. The Great Wall of Gopeng in the valley allows sightseers to take amazing snaps. Hilltop Viewing Stage offers a sight of tourists to view the lush green gaharu trees and the hilly region in Titiwangsa range. Read More

Gopeng Antique Kopitiam is a crowd-pleasing antique-style coffee shop, restaurant, and event space in Gopeng, Malaysia with impressive interior design that takes you back to the olden days. Serving Western and Asian cuisine, Gopeng Antique Kopitiam is very popular amongst the gastronomists for its local dishes like Sambal Fried Lao Shu Fen, Sweet and Sour Pork with Rice, and Yue Guang Ho. The western dishes prepared here include pasta, chicken chop, and much more!! Gopeng Antique Kopitiam is a beautiful and preferred venue for private events like birthday parties, family dinner, Chinese New Year dinner, and other theme parties. Read More

Serving as the annex of the Gopeng museum, Gopeng Heritage House is located in the town of Gopeng in Malaysia. The venue is stacked with numerous artefacts, antiques, old furniture, and calligraphy paintings that very well gives an insight into the lives of local natives who resided in Gopeng some 125 years ago. Gopeng Heritage House has dedicated 2 floors to all the unique and traditional exhibits here.The ground floor is filled with Chinese furniture, ornaments, and ceramics. The exhibits arranged upstairs include old fur stole, hat, Old radios, clocks, suitcases, beer bottles, vintage cigarette packets, musical instruments, and gramophone records. Read More

Located along with Jalan Eu Kong in Gopeng, the Gopeng museum narrates the history of Gopeng by displaying some 300 antiques. History geeks will also find some machines processing tin and rubber in the museum. Other major exhibits in this exhibition centre include some vintage objects like old-school sewing machines, watches, clocks, radios, gas lamps, typewriters, cameras, and gramophone records. Visitors can also peep into the lives of the initial natives in Gopeng by just glancing at the information boards here. There’s an entire wall in the museum that is covered with beautiful but old black and white repertoire pictures. Read More

Gua Tempurung

Gua Tempurung is a beautiful limestone cave located in Gopeng in Perak. Popular for caving, it is the largest cave in all of peninsular Malaysia. A part of this 3-kilometer-long cave has been developed as a show cave, complete with walkways and electric lighting. It is quite easy to explore and has a 1.6-kilometer-long river passage running through the hills. The tunnel of Tempurung Cave is made up of five gigantic domes, the ceilings of which resemble coconut shells; other than this, there are also some spectacular stalactites and stalagmites worth witnessing here. The caves are also well known worldwide for their rock formations and these speleological wonders are found only in this part of the world. Read More

White Water Rafting

Nestled amidst the most picturesque views of Gopeng, Kampar river is a white water rafting site in Malaysia. Kampar river has some 22 rapids ranging from grade1 to grade 3. Here, the rafting activity lasts for about 3 hours and is guided by experts. During the rafting activity, sight seekers are accompanied with breathtaking natural beauty and Rajah Brooke Butterflies. There are many companies offering this river rafting package out of which some allow visitors for an overnight stay followed by a fun activity. Read More