MENARA CONDONG

Another interesting place that you'll can visit while in Perak is Menara Condong that are located at Teluk Intan. Teluk Intan is one of the largest city in Hilir Perak and Menara Condong has become as a landmark of Teluk Intan. Another city that are nearer with Teluk Intan is Sabak Barnam, Bagan Datoh, Bidor, Kampar, Tapah ang Lumut.

Everybody who come to Teluk Intan will not miss the opportunity to visit one of the uniqueness of Perak, which is Menara Condong. Before this Menara Condong known as Jam Tinggi that was build at 1885 as a water storage tank and also as a Time Keeper for their local community.

Basically, this building was build in a normal condition and straight vertically.But after a big flood, the structure of this building has start skewed around 1889. One of the reason why it is happen is because it was built on soft soil structure and at the same time there is the burden of the water tank which caused a slight incline towards the southwest.

The pagoda shape of this building has the ability to amazed every eyes that see it coz it juz fantastic, also with the shape of "tudung saji" at its roof. 

opps, before entering tu why not get some of the information available at the entrance. hehee.

So, to those of you that seems curious, interested.. what are you guys waiting for.. come on, lets Perak lah kita. 

Taiping

Taiping town was been a capital of Perak. It is a small town which rich with tines and it is a Bandar Warisan as it preserved Perak’s history. The name of Taiping is from Chinese word “Tai-Peng” means peace forever. Taiping with 12 districts is the most humid area in Malaysia with rainfall around 4000 km per year. Travelling at Taiping not only because if the history, but the environment and culture as well as the food heaven.  There are about 8 attractive and famous places in Taiping, Perak:

1. Galeria Pertama

This building has be used as trigonometric survey offices, 1891 and administrative offices of Taiping, 1930 located at Station Road, Taiping. It is been divided into four segment included Galeri Tengku Menteri, bilik bacaan persendirian Pegawai  Inggeris, Galeri Kapitan Cina and Galeri Potret. The operation period is from at 9.30 am to 5.30 pm on weekdays except Monday and on Sunday at 12.30 pm to 5.30pm. This gallery closed on every Monday and festival holidays only.

2. Muzium Perak Taiping

This museum was designed by English architecture from England. The concept of this musem is combination of classic art known as “neo-classic” and Victorian people of Europe. The building planning started on 1883 and completely developed on 1886. This museum is early museum institution of Southeast Asia and the first museum in Malaysia. It include four exhibition gallery which are Gallery A(Pameran Sementara Berkala), Gallery B(Pemaran Semulajadi), Gallery C( Pameran Kebudayaan Umum dan Perak) and Gallery D (Pameran Tembikar Tradisional & Masyarakat Orang Asli). This museum located at Jalan Taming Sari and operated every day at 9.30am to 5.00pm except for Friday at 9.30 to 12.00noon and open back at 2.30pm to 5.30pm. People can visit the website http://www.museumperak.gov.my

3. Zoo Taiping

Zoo Taiping was developed on 1961 with 24hectar that consist of 2000 of animal which 160 species of mammalian, reptilian, birds and fishes. What special about this zoom is it is surrounded by Taman Tasik Taiping and it is near to Maxwell Hills. It is the first public zoo in Malaysia. This zoo opens every day at 8.00am to 6.00pm.

 4. Night Safari Taiping

Night Safari Taiping is the first in Malaysia which opened on 2003. It preserves the authenticity natural light which spill over through techniques like moonlight in the forest. Visitors have chance to sight variety of wildlife active at night. Therefore, this safari is only open at night started 8.00pm to 11.00pm everyday include public holiday while on Saturday at 8.00pm to 12.00am.

5. Maxwell Hill (Bukit Larut)

A sight of sunset at the hilltop of Maxwell is the best memory of Taiping as the evening beauty there the most beautiful at Peninsula Malaysia with height 4,100feets. It takes about 30minutes to the hilltop with 13km of distance by jip. Temperature of the hilltop during day is 15°C -25°C. This hill been developed on 1879 as first hill resort in Malaysia. Surrounding of the hill has several bungalows of English as tourist accommodation.

6. Kolam Air Panas Perubatan

This hot tub contains original of mineral salt. It already operates 14years which located at Kampung Batu 9, Changkat Jering. It said to be capable of treating 287 diseases especially the problems of skin, nerve and paralyzed limbs. There are three hot tubs for kids. The operation time is from 9.00am to 12.00am every day.

7. Kopi Antong

When visit Taiping, please do not forget to visit Kopi Antong Factory to try the lovely traditional coffee which located at Jalam Assam Kumbang Taiping. This factory has been developed by third generation of Thian Boon Chung. The coffee is combination of coffee from Brazil, Kenya and Indonesian with local coffee processed through traditional method which used “dapur arang” in order to create the lovely and fresh fragrant of the coffee. Visit time is 8.30am to 6.00pm of every day.

8. Mee Banjir Udang Mak Tee

The famous of Mee Udang which contain a lot of the fresh prawns is located at Batu 9 ¼ , Kg, Tebok, Kuala Sepetang with the price between RM6.00-RM12.00. Besides Mee Udang, other menu is available which are Nasi Goreng Sambal Udang and Nasi Udang Goreng Kunyit also popular among visitors. The restaurant operates at 10.00am until 11.00pm.

Then, after have rest at the hotel, we go out to take our dinner. We choose nasi vangey as our menu. Nasi vanggey also known as nasi ganja  is a famous menu at Perak. This menu was create by Mamak and the price is RM 5.50.

nasi ganja @ nasi vanggey

Our last destination for second day trip is at Stesen Kereta Api, Ipoh. We just want to see night view at Perak. Although the hours have shown at 12 pm but there were very person that was playing the balloon, skates board and roller skates. There also have air pancut berirama that attract people to come at this destination.

air pancut berirama 

Then, we find Mak Teh Mee Banjir Udang at Kuala Sepetang as our lunch. this place is very famous at Perak. All people that travel at Perak want to taste it. Hemmmm, we done eat it. We are very are satisfied with this food because the shrimp is very fresh. the price is around RM12 for one plate. 

nasi goreng udang

mee banjir udang

After that, we travel to Lumut as our second destination at second day. The journey along one hour from Taiping. Lumut as a one place to the tourist go to Pulau Pangkor apart from Marina Bay. There have very beautiful view especially at the twilight time.

Terminal jeti ke Pulau Pangkor

We also have enjoy our time with take cendol as our afternoon tea. this stall are famous with name Mr Cendol. Hemmmm..... very delicious. The price is around cendol biasa RM 3.30, cendol pulut RM 4.50, cenddol ais krim RM 4.30 and the self make cendol is RM5.

cendol pulut, cendol ais krim, cendol biasa

self make cendol

Then we continues our journey to Taiping. We visit Zoo Taiping and there also have a few interesting place such as Bukit Larut. We try to go to Bukuit Larut, but there was congesting because hinduism was pray at there so we cannot move.

Day 2

Our next journey in second day is first we plan to go at the Lumut and Taiping. So, we rent the viva car at there is about RM 70 per day. Hemmm...it available for us because of we are bag packer. So, let go to eat first. We had stop at kedai nasi kandar and we order 'maggi goreng and teh ais' as our breakfast. The amount area RM4.50.

our breakfast