Be warn first because this post got a lot of picture. This post is all about Gopeng, a small town situated between Kampar and Ipoh. Just for your information Gopeng is the first exit after you pass the bridges of Gua Tempurung if you are traveling along the PLUS highway. This small town is famous for its food such as 奶粉 (not milk powder) but a kind of noodle only available here. In the past this place is famous for its tin (bijih timah) mining operation or in other word because of tin mining operation the town of Gopeng only exist. The famous land mark of Gopeng is the long pipe that stretch of do not know how many KM that in the past served to carried water to the tin mine for tin mining. Sadly the pipe is no longer exist because the government scrape it due to the pipe is not longer in use since there is no more mining activity there. Besides mining the houses there is built before world war 2 era and often become a place for movie and drama to film there because most of the houses still remain the same old design.
Why I talk a lot of crap about Gopeng in this post?? I know Gopeng because there is my hometown. I born in Ipoh and raised in Gopeng for a short while before my whole family moved and settle down in KL and often my whole family will go back to Gopeng to visit my relative that are still living there. That place is a peaceful small town where practically everyone know each other staying there.
During this year CNY I visited the newly open Gopeng Museum and in that museum show case all the history about Gopeng and in the picture above I only showed some of their exhibit items. Please stop by this quiet little town for some delicious noodle when you are traveling north and also please visit the museum and give some donation to them because the museum is maintained by all the people there without much funding from the government.
You can get the direction of the Gopeng museum by clicking here
