Images of Ipoh: Royal Belum World Drums Festival 2012

Saturday, February 25, 2012

Royal Belum World Drums Festival 2012

This is a extraordinary night in Ipoh. The city welcomes guests from 9 countries to the "Royal Belum World Drums Festival 2012". Together with several teams from Malaysia, they have performed an amazing drum performance at City Square in front of the Ipoh City Council headquarter. The participants are contingent from Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, South Korea, Japan, India, Brazil & Azerbaijan. The citizen of Ipoh had packed the square & enjoyed a superb drum performance tonight. We hope there will be increasing number of such events to introduce more art performances to Ipoh citizen.

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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.