Taiping Heritage

Splendid work of craftsmanship along Kota Road, Taiping

Beautiful decorative & intricate designs on pre-war buildings, Kota Road

Petition writer - a declining breed of professionals along Kota Road

Taiping - Qingming or Ching Meng Festival

Qingming Jie is known as Clear Brightness Festival and Tending Graves
or Tomb Sweeping Day ( Kwangtung cemetery in Taiping)

Qingming denotes a time for people to go outside and enjoy the greenery

of springtime and also to tend to the graves of departed.

Its significance is to remember & honour ancestors.

Qingming Jie - held on 15th day of Spring equinox- usually falls on April 5
on Gregorian calendar except on leap years. In 2008 it occurs on April 4.

Taiping Joss Paper Shops

Another shop in Taiping selling joss paper and worship items.
Most Chinese burn paper paraphernalia to enable their
departed loved ones to live comfortably in the netherworld.

Paper dresses, paper shoes, paper jewelery, paper cosmetics etc.

Goodies for the departed. Chinese believe that burning them
will reappear as the real stuff in the netherworld for their
loved ones to use and enjoy.

The Chinese believe there is a netherworld. There are many shops
in Taiping selling joss paper houses, paper cars, paper TV sets,
paper clothes, paper shoes, paper jewelery etc.

Maybank was located here along Jalan Taming Sari (Main Road)
before it moved to its new office at Jalan Panggung Wayang

Taiping Central Market (pork section) was built in 1884.

LAP building at Jalan Muzium

Elegant Old Buildings

Old mansion along Jalan Ong Saik.. (no longer standing)

Beautiful government quarters besides the old mansion along Jalan Ong Saik

Drainage and Irrigation Department building (JPS) along Jalan Muzium

Schools- Centres of Excellence

SM Treacher Methodist (1889) at Jalan Muzium

SM Convent along Jalan Convent

SM St.George at Jalan Stesen

SR King Edward VII (1883) at Jalan Stesen

SR King Edward VII (1883) - view from Jalan Ong Saik

Pre-war house decorated with Chinese motifs. It's situated along Jalan Stesen

Eng Lee Kopitiam - Jalan Stesen

Ching Yuan Association - Jalan Pasar

Bangunan Agama Islam at Jalan muzium

Chin Woo Association at Jalan Tokong

Ceylon Association (1899) - Ceylonese Tamils came to work in the civil service and
build the railways. The association was founded in 1899 and located at Station road.

Burmese Pool - a favourite place for picnics and camping

Majestic Angsana trees still lined the Upper Muzeum Road

Aerodrome at Tekka

The old town council was housed here before it moved to its present new office.

A government office building that once housed the magistrate courts

The first zoo in Malaysia! Taiping Zoo & Night Safari
is located in the grounds of the famous Lake Garden
and houses a very good collection of exotic animals and birds.

Rainbow over Taman Lake View - 16 March 2008

Perak Museum is the oldest museum in Malaysia. A first for Taiping.
It was built in 1883 and has a very good collection of natural history and ethnological collections.

Taiping Lake Garden was built in 1880 and is the oldest

and certaily one of the most beautiful lake gardens in Malaysia.