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Public gardens created out of abandoned surface tin mines. A series of interconnected ponds surrounded by flower beds, lawns, flowering shrubs and trees and playgrounds. Famous for a stretch of road lined by century-old rain trees (Samanea saman) whose branches arch down to the water's edge.
The Taiping Lake Gardens is the first public garden established during the British rule in Malaysia. The garden is located near Bukit Larut, and is equidistant to the town centre and the Taiping Zoo.
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And Night Safari Taiping - the first zoo to be established in Malaysia. Packed at weekends with day-trippers from out of town.
Forty acres of mangrove forest reserve. You will get to see a variety of flora and fauna in this undisturbed forest.