wAntAn productions: Taiping Lake Gardens

Friday, May 12, 2006

Taiping Lake Gardens

Our Ipoh trip also included a quick detour to Taiping. The objective was to visit the famous Taiping Lake Gardens. The Taiping Lake Gardens has been in operation since 1880 which makes this the oldest garden of its type in Malaysia! The Taiping Lake Gardens are also located near to two significant Taiping landmarks being Bukit Larut (a.k.a. Maxwell Hill, the first hill resort in Malaysia) and The Taiping Zoo. We only had enough time to take a stroll through the park. I wished I had the chance to go up Maxwell Hill and maybe even stay the night.

Massive Angsana trees that reach from one side of the road all the way to the edge of the lake.

Every Angsana tree there is over a hundred years old. Unfortunately some of them are not well taken care of and have been uprooted.

Flower on an Angsana tree.

Proof that me and ST were there.

I wonder if this is legal?

Ants on a tree... playing with the magnify feature of the Sony DSC-T3. Not bad for a compact point n shoot.

Moss on a tree. Playing with the magnify feature of my camera again.

5 wise words from our readers:

a golden opinion from Dragon City: Maxwell Hill got hantu!!; 7:49 PM
a golden opinion from boo_licious: I thot Maxwell Hill has tulips now?

The place looks nice and tranquil.; 4:46 AM
a golden opinion from wyejon: dragon city: hantu ur head lah!

boo_licious: wouldn't know... we didn't go up.; 7:12 PM
a golden opinion from Anonymous: hello, happened to drop by at your blog. Just want to correct you, the Angsana tree in your picture is actually called Rain Tree (Samanea saman)

cheers
The Botanist; 4:18 PM
a golden opinion from mskivaa: Agree with the Anonymous, it actually is a Rain Tree.

cheers
not a a Botanist but a Tree Hugger; 11:44 AM