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Malaysias third city, Ipoh is an ideal stopover between Kuala Lumpur (135 miles) or the Cameron Highlands and Penang. Known for its excellent Chinese food, Ipoh preserves an impressive number of traditional Chinese and colonial buildings in its old town beside the Kinta River. Other symbols of Ipohs past wealth are the Moorish-cum-Victorian railway station (setting of the well-named Majestic Hotel) Alsoworth seeing too, are nearby Tambun's hot springs, and the Buddhist temples built into ancient limestone caves.

Some 50 miles to the north of Ipoh is Taiping, backed by the green Bintang Mountains and one of Malaysia's oldest towns. Once Perak State's main mining centre (Perak or 'silver' in Malay - was the silvery tin ore from which the state gained its wealth), Taiping gained its present name (meaning 'Eternal Peace') after quarrels between early Chinese immigrant mining groups. were resolved by a British-imposed truce.

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