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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.
The Zoo Taiping is a zoological park located at Bukit Larut, Taiping, Perak, Malaysia. Established in 1961, is the only zoo in northern Malaysia.
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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.
Forty acres of mangrove forest reserve. You will get to see a variety of flora and fauna in this undisturbed forest.