Thursday, September 25, 2008

Teluk Intan Leaning Tower

Remember the world-famous Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy, you can find one here in Perak too. Not copy or built purposely to tilt, the teluk Intan Leaning tower, a clock tower is built in 1885 by a chinese, Leong Choon Choong. The pagoda like tower was use to covered water tank for the Teluk Intan residents, it was later then used by the Japanese as observation tower during world II and later Boy's Scouts headquarters.
Well, it started to tilt towards jalan Bandar Road of about 1.8m between 1889 and 1895.
Today, remains as it is, you can hear the chimes from the tower as far as 8km twice every 15 minutes. Especially on Wednesday, you get to see the caretaker who will wind up the clock and doing some maintaining works for the tower. To get here,exit at Bidor Interchange and head towards Teluk Intan and into jalan Selat Road from the north-south Expressway .

Monday, February 04, 2008

Thaipusam is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly by the tamil community. The festival commemorates both the birthday of LordMurugan, the youngest son of shiva and pravati , and the occasion when pravati gave Murugan a vel (lance) so he could vanquish the evil demon soorapadman .

In Malaysia Thaipusam festival celebrate in temples. One of the biggest and most famous celebrations is at Batu Caves.

Just on a short distance from Kuala Lumpur. To reach the Cave you must climb 272 steps. Batu Caves is actually a cave that consists of three caves, formed by the massive limestone natural formations.
The most impressive and largest of the three caves is the Temple Cave.
Thaipusam is also celebrated in this form in Singapore, Thailand, Mauritius and other countries where Tamil workers migrated.

Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Pasar Malam


When you said about Pasar Malam means a night market that sells alot of local varieties. Just name it. Pasar malam are well known and almost in every town and corner in Malaysia. If you looking for juicy local food here’s the place were you can get it cheap . Choice of interesting local products which includes food to even handicraft items.

Sunday, January 20, 2008

Cameron Highlands in Malaysia

Cameron Highlands in the state of Pahang is Malaysia's leading highland retreat. Tucked away among a nest of serene mountains in the magnificent Titiwangsa Range, Cameron Highlands offers visitors cooling weather and respite from the tropical heat of below as well as a chance to enjoy the spectacular beauties of nature. Each year, Cameron Highlands attracts people from all walks of life, local and international, who come to appreciate the picteresque scenery, amazing landscape, cooling climate and myriad shopping opportunities.