Place to stay and Interesting place in Taiping to visit.

Stay in Taiping
Taiping is surprisingly cheap with a good range of hotels available. One of the better hotel in town is The Legend Inn, an amazingly well priced hotel for RM93.00nett for Superior Room which we can recommend in every aspect. The Legend Inn has also a very good restaurant, wireless fast broadband connection in the rooms and widescreen TV with Astro. Legend Inn is the best option in Taiping.
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Legend Inn Taiping

Places to visit
The Taiping Zoo
The zoo is probably the most famous site to visit in town. The zoo is located close to the foot of Larut Hill (Bukit Larut). The reason why this zoo is such a success is that it is build in a complete natural setting. And for the visitors of Taiping who love to spend a day in a zoo, this is your only choice in North Malaysia.
The Zoo is home to more then 180 species, 1300 individuals. These include: tigers, lions, elephants, hornbills and many more. There's also a breeding station which is successful. Even tigers were breeding. An interesting thing to do are the night-safaris.
The Zoo is daily open from 8.30 to 18.30 hr. Feeding time is usually between 9:30-11am. The Night Safari is open from 20.00 to 23.00 hr on weekdays and until midnight on weekends and the eve of public holidays.
Taxis in town bring you to the entrance of the Zoo for about a few ringit. Alternatively, it's a 30 to 40 minutes walk through the awesome Lake Gardens. Recommended! Now with new facilities for education, Zoo Taiping has a package with Facilitator or Zoo Renjer that can give you more information about animals. Booked Them Now!!

Historical buildings
The town center is quite small so you will be able to cover most of the interesting buildings on foot.
The General Hospital was founded in 1880 as Yeng Wah (Chinese Pauper). Of the original building there are still some left.

Kedai kopi dan rumah tumpangan peace

The Old Kota Mosque on Mosque Road build in 1897. It was originally a Hanafi Mosque used by the Indian Muslims in Kota. In the later years it was handed over to the Malay Muslim population.
The Taiping Government offices are located at Kota Road in a large Victorian style building. It was build by the end of the 19th Century.

Taiping Government Office

 

The Peking hotel was build in 1929. It was formerly a rubbers dealing association. It's now restored in it's former glory.
Some of the buildings are now cultural heritage of Taping, like the Kedai kopi dan rumah tumpangan peace above.
The last to mention, since there's so many nice places, is the Taiping Market Square. The Old Market building also belongs to Taipings culutral heritage and was build in 1884 the New Market came a year later.

Taiping Market Square

Lake Gardens

I read it is the best preserved example of a 19th Century Market building. If this is true, I can not say, I know it's still a nice place to explore the local market. And next to the market is a big food market. Here you can try all the delicatessens of the Malay, Chinese and Indian cuisine under one roof. At any time of the day there's food available and it's probably the most convenient place to eat (as it is also near the bus station).


Taiping has a long Chinese history. Even the name refers to China. Not surprisingly, the city has quite a few Chinese temples.