Papan – a town frozen in time

There is a lot more to discover in Perak beyond limestone caves, glorious tin mining past and Ipoh White Coffee. 4 AUGUST 2025Leaving KL at 10am, our road trip to Taiping included the following off-the-beaten-path and small town must-eat detours : Papan Heritage VillagePun Chun Restaurant BidorPinnacle Lake of Malim NawarBatu Gajah drive through Papan …

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Tsagaan Suvarga – Harmony of Colours

Though I was expecting another day of interesting sights I was not prepared for a 400m-long jigsaw of white-sand cliffs, streaked with a kaleidoscope of pastel shades ranging from purple to red and orange. Tsagaan Suvarga (White Stupa) is a line of cliffs formed by the fracturing of the earth's crust millions of years ago. …

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