Images of Ipoh: Flying To Singapore

Saturday, February 26, 2011

Flying To Singapore

This is my first experience of viewing aeroplane taking off from Sultan Azlan Shah Airport. The airport was once ceased operation due to the poor demand of flight between Ipoh & Kuala Lumpur. Anyway, some flights between Ipoh & Medan, Indonesia had brought the airport back to alive. Since 2009, a very strategic air route between Ipoh & Singapore established by a local budget airline, Firefly. It takes only about 1 hour 20 minutes from Ipoh to Singapore at cost as low as less than RM100 (of course, only if booked far advance) and it is now 2 trips available daily. Just for curiosity, I came to the Pasir Pinji riverside garden to witness the take off moment of morning flight. Another trip will be at 4:45pm.

2 comments:

Carlos RibeiroFebruary 27, 2011 at 1:21 PM
Beautiful photography. I liked the colors of the grass. Congratulations!
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Chun KeeFebruary 27, 2011 at 5:25 PM
Thank you Carlos :-)
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Ipoh, the capital city of Perak State, Malaysia, is the city that tin built. Located at the famous tin mining area, Kinta Valley, it used to be the world's largest tin mine since 19th century. Not only of its tin mine, but Ipoh also famous of its delicious food, beautiful mountain ranges, mysterious lime stone caves, attractive history & friendly citizen. Being the second in Malaysia that gain the status of city in year 1988 after Kuala Lumpur, Ipoh is one of the major cities in Malaysia with the population around 700,000. Began as a small village in 1870's, tin mine industry had brought in Chinese and Indian that boosted the town development since 1890's. The rapid growing town later upgraded to be the capital of Perak during the Japanese occupation at World War II. The rich tin resource had brought prosperity to many Ipoh miners that even make it once known as the City of Millionaires. Today, Ipoh has grown to cover a large area including the neighboring township such as Bercham, Tasek, Jelapang, Menglembu, Pengkalan, Simpang Pulai & Chemor. The city is still developing continuously while maintains its beauty of nature and harmony.