{"id":14318,"date":"2018-07-12T19:04:18","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T11:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=14318"},"modified":"2018-07-12T19:22:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T11:22:29","slug":"gunung-rapat-cave-temples","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuif.com\/blog\/?p=14318","title":{"rendered":"Gunung Rapat Cave Temples"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gunung Rapat is a limestone hill, south of Ipoh. When you drive the no 1 trunk road from KL to Ipoh, you will pass\u00a0 a number of Chinese temples, built in the limestone caves of Gunung Rapat. One or two I must have visited in the past and several times I have been to the Kek Lok Tong temple, on the other side of the hill.<\/p>\n

Searching the Internet I found 8 major temples on the slopes of Gunung Rapat and I decided to make it a project to visit all of them during a visit of Ipoh. Here are the results. In the Google Earth screenshot below, the locations of the eight temples are given.<\/p>\n

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We started our trip with a visit of Tasik Cermin, the Mirror Lake. Until not long ago this was a “secret” location, known only to a few people. The lake is located within a quarry and can only be reached through a tunnel. Access was not always allowed by the quarry owner. This time it looked like quarry operations had stopped, there was no entrance barrier and we were told that the lake is nowadays becoming popular for wedding shoots!<\/p>\n

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If there is no wind, the water is really like a mirror, but during our visit there was a breeze. Aric tried to operate his drone, but between the steep cliff walls, GPS reception was not good enough.<\/p>\n\n\t\t