Images of Ipoh: Here You See Kinta Riverfront At Night

Thursday, June 21, 2012

Here You See Kinta Riverfront At Night

The green signage of Kinta Riverfront Hotel is lighted up. Now you can see it at night from several locations especially in New Town. Indeed I find this is a typical practice of Ipoh hotels to have the signage installed as block letters standing on top of the roof (such as Excelsior Hotel, Heritage Hotel, Tower Regency Hotel, Syuen Hotel, Ipoh City Hotel), instead of fixing on the building wall (like seen on Impiana Hotel). My wild guess is that these hotel buildings fully utilize the allowable height for usable space & there is no sufficient empty surface for fixing hotel name.

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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.