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Malaysia's oldest hill resort is located on Bukit Larut (Maxwell Hill). It is accessible only be four wheel drive vehicles. The road up twists and turns through tropical virgin jungle, the fresh green fragrance and cool air greeting you as you ascend. At the summit you are treated to a spectacular view of the west coast of the peninsula. Visitor can either stay at the Bukit Larut Resthouse or by making reservation through the Superintendent of Bukit Larut, Taiping. Tel:- 60-05-8077243 / 60-05-8077241. A Land Rover service at the foot of the hill is available at hourly intervals from 7.00am to 6.00pm daily. |
| This 62-hectare park is one of the biggest and most beautiful parks in the country. It offers luch greenery, a beautiful lake abounding with freshwater fish, a gazebo and a colourful profusion of flowers.Taiping Zoo, the oldest zoo is located right in the middle of the park and visiting ours is from 10.00am to 6.00pm daily. |  |
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Taiping War Cemetary - The cemetary contains 826 graves of Commonwealth casualties who fell before the advance of the Japanese in the "Campaign in Malaya" (Dec 1941 - Feb 1942). It was constructed and is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Photography buffs likes to patronise this place because of its well kept beauty. |
| Old Saints Church - The first Anglican church in the Malay States opened in 1886. The timber building was designed by G.A. Lefroy and the site donated by W.V. Drummond, a planter from Shanghai. In 1898, the graveyard was already "much besprinkled with the tombstones of many a young man stricken down in the heyday of youth, or British official who, after spending the best years of his life in the service of the State, has failed to gain his pension, and now lies buried here...." |  |
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Guan Hin Chan - This well preserved building was the premises of a cigar factory started by a Burmese Chinese. In the 1930s, it employed Burmese women to roll cigars from Moulmein tobacco. During the Japanese Occupation, it was used by the occupying forces to store tin ore. |
| Taiping Convent - In 1899, the first convent was started in nearby Klian Pauh by three Sisters from the convent in Penang. The class and orphanage in Taiping were upgraded when the present school building at Kota Road opened in 1938. In May 1941, the British requisitioned it for a large military hospital but in December it was taken over by the Japanese. Towards the end of the war, the Taiping Convent became the headquarters of the Japanese military administration, the Gun-sei Kan-bu.. |  |
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Tseng Lung Hakka Association - Founded around 1887, the Tseng Lung hui-kuan is the association of people from Tseng ch'eng and Lung-men counties of Kuang-chou prefecture in South China. |
| Police Station - Initially built of timber in 1881 "at a point about equidistant from the Chinese theatre, the market and other much frequented places". The fortified clocktower, with chamfered slits for guns, was probably erected some years later. The police station doubled as a fire station. The first fire brigade is the FMS was made up of members of the Perak Armed Police and later the Malay States Guides. |  |
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Taiping Government Offices - This "imposing Victorian styled block of offices" was opened in 1898. The Government Offices building "which is well designed and constructed, was commenced in 1895, and provides accommodation for a Council Chamber, and Offices for the Secretariat, Treasury, Audit, Education and Forest Departments. The estimated cost is $83,750." Today it is the premises of the Larut Matang District Office. |
| The Secretary to Resident's House- The house was built in the 1890s. atop a hillock called "Jelutong Hill", from which many of the early photographic views of Taiping town were taken. It is presently the District Officer's residence. The rounded porte cochere is a typical feature of many grand Perak houses. |  |
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