wAntAn productions: Sam Poh Tong

Thursday, May 11, 2006

Sam Poh Tong - Ipoh, Perak

Sam Poh Tong is a very beautiful place. It's located at the same road with the Ling Sen Tong and Nam Tin Tong Caves I mentioned about in my previous post. It's a little similar to Kek Lok Tong Cave in the sense that you can walk through the cave to a courtyard. At the entrance to the cave you can find a marvellous bonsai garden. Go in through the cave and you end up in a courtyard with a turtle pond and a new pagoda styled building.

The entrance to the cave.

The bonsai garden with it's very own pond.

They've got a lot of detailed miniatures.

Notice the beautiful rock formations? It's exactly like those you see in Chinese paintings.

The turtle pond. You can buy some 'kangkung' vegetables to feed the turtles from vendors outside the temple entrance. They practically beg you to buy from them.

The pagoda structure. Can you imagine 2 kungfu fighters dueling on the roof top?

4 wise words from our readers:

a golden opinion from Seymour Cakes: Wa, looks boring, but I want to go too... Snigger! I want to go too!; 9:30 AM
a golden opinion from Dragon City: how come got no group photo one? who is going?; 10:49 PM
a golden opinion from wyejon: dragon city: secret!; 12:33 PM
a golden opinion from Chorwin: Yup, Ipoh is famous with hole hole... or we called it in malay... Lubang lubang.. haha

I haven't truly visited Ipoh, but I went to Foh San restaurent to taste the DimSum before.. pretty much choice... In Butterworth (my home town), there is a famous DimSum here too. haha.; 8:19 PM