Images of Ipoh: "Images of Ipoh" 4th Anniversary

Thursday, January 17, 2013

"Images of Ipoh" 4th Anniversary

"Images of Ipoh" is 4 years old!! And there are already over 900 photos posted here for sharing. I never expect I could go this far and truly grateful to have you loving to read the posts and photos in this blog. In order to celebrate the birthday of "Images of Ipoh", I choose to return to this same location and capture the scene which was published in the very first post 4 years ago. Thank you very much!!

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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.