wAntAn productions: Kek Lok Tong Cave

Wednesday, May 10, 2006

Kek Lok Tong Cave - Ipoh, Perak

Immediately after a dim sum breakfast at Foh San we headed off to our first destination, which was Kek Lok Tong Cave. Ipoh is pretty much surrounded by limestone mountains and caves. Somehow or other a lot of the caves end up as Chinese temples and there are some famous ones. We didn't have the time to visit them all but we did go to a few starting with the Kek Long Tong cave.

The entrance. The cave is quite spacious.

A statue made in the image of the goddess Kuan Yin statue. You will find Kuan Yin in most Chinese temples.

They had a little waterfall next to the Kuan Yin statue which was not "on" when we got there. Someone pushed a button somewhere and got the water flowing a little after!

Limestone mountains are beautiful things don't you think?

Walk through the cave until the other end and you will find a courtyard of sorts with it's very own lotus pond and jogging track. It's quite impressive.

It's pretty interesting to note that this place is full of joggers and of all races too. People here seem to be a lot more open minded than KL folk.

2 wise words from our readers:

a golden opinion from KampungboyCitygal: I'm one of the jogger if I'm in Ipoh..Its only 5 min from my house :p; 5:22 PM
a golden opinion from wyejon: kampungboycitygal: you know... I always thought City Gal was from KL :); 7:38 PM