What a view! A bird’s eye view of the beautiful city of Ipoh, built in the late 1800s to sustain the tin mining industry in surrounding towns.in Kinta Valley.

This capital city of the state of Perak has a well planned layout and is surrounded by lush green hills. Fun fact – it was the Japanese who made Ipoh the capital city of Perak in place of Taiping. Read more here: Ipoh History

Ipoh padang or Ipoh field has been a central point of activity for the community here over the decades.

The Royal Ipoh Club house (in the background) was built in 1892 as a place for British officers, during the colonial era, to have a recreational space.

“The plans for forming the Ipoh Club were conceived at the Oldfield’s Dispensary in 1892 by a small group of Europeans who had got into the habit of dropping in to the dispensary around noon and partaking of a glass or two from their personal bottle of Scotch Whisky secreted behind the medicine bottles. This was generally diluted with a little Soda Water sold to them by Oldfield.” – Source: Ipoh World

Also visible is the St Michael’s Institution