Generally, there are many unusual and beautiful temples in Malaysia. Each city has something special and worth visiting. The city of Ipoh is famous for its cave temples. And the most popular of them is Kek Lok Tong.

This attractive cave temple is not in the city itself but only five kilometers away. Therefore, you can get to Kek Lok Tong not only by bus, taxi or car but also on foot.

This temple is rather young. At first, it was a small grotto with one statue of the Buddha. It was a place of pilgrimage for only a few monks. In 1960, the territory of the future temple was occupied by active iron mining. Because of this activity, the cave has significantly increased in size. And the former chamber prayer hall received a huge area that could either be left unused or put in order and turned into an attractive place for relaxation and meditation. The locals chose the second way. So in just a few years the industrial cave became a beautiful temple, opened in 1970.

Today, the Kek Lok Tong cave complex is not only a large prayer hall, a meditation hall and a central altar with several gilded Buddhist figures and various deities of the Chinese Pantheon. It is also a garden, which for several years in a row has been recognized as the most beautiful and comfortable place for recreation at urban landscape festivals. Indeed, the garden comprises not only beautiful flowers and trees but also comfortable jogging tracks, hiking trails, lakes with turtles and magnificent statues of the gods. Walking through the garden, you should pay attention to the signs-recommendations on which side it is better to bypass this or that lake or monument to the deity. These signs stand for a reason: they do not regulate pedestrian traffic but the flows of energy. So that harmony is not disturbed in the garden and the person walking here.