Kampong Kepayang: The Abandoned - Part 2

The authority wants to demolish the place for the road expansion but some of the owners of the shops cannot be found, and some owners were unhappy because the requested compensation has not been met. Therefore it was left uncared for years. The Timber, rood tiles, bricks, window frames of hard wood have been harvested for sale. Wild vegetation gradually took over the abandoned shop houses.

Few years ago, someone proposed the rebuilding of Kampong Kepayang for tourism – restore the building and realign the road. The scheme was shown at PHS Heritage Forum in 2010 but it wasn’t taken seriously by the authority.

The main street of Kampong Kepayang straddling the main highway from Ipoh to Gopeng. Extremely heavy traffic flies past the street all the time. A study from Badan Warisan Malaysia claimed that the traffic is the cause of “death” of Kampong Kepayang. The road is narrow and the stream of traffic is loud and incessant – simply unbearable!

Reference Websites:

Kg. Kepayang: A time capsule 

Demolition of pre-wars shops postponed

Kampong Kepayang: For the love of ruins

Kampong Kepayang: The Abandoned - Part 1

I have been passing by these old, abandoned shop houses a couple of times. This is an interesting place to explore and photograph – I love the place with a lot of history!

Kampong Kepayang, a former tin-mining town in the tin-rich Kinta Valley (Perak State, Malaysia). It’s consisting of two rows of pre-war shop houses, located just 13km south of Ipoh city. These shop houses exist since 1880s and it was once a live place – different shops and entertainment places, included prostitute house. It is now an almost abandoned place - a ghost town. Although there are still a few families living there and a few shops are still in operation.

Reference Websites:

Kg. Kepayang: A time capsule 

Demolition of pre-wars shops postponed

Kampong Kepayang: For the love of ruins

Birding in Kinta Nature Park

Black-crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax)

Kinta Nature Park is located at Batu Gajah of Perak, Malaysia. The bird life here is super rich, it was claimed that the park is home to more than 130 species of birds and has the largest heronry in the country on one of its islands. We visited the park during the breeding season, thousand of herons were spotted on one of the islands. The herons were collecting nesting materials and flying over from all direction. The sight is simply spectacular!

Grey Heron (Ardea cinerea)

Purple Heron (Ardea purpurea)

It was a cloudy day, which is great for bird photography especially for the birds with white plumage. There are plenty of photography opportunities. This time I focus on simple composition - by photographing the single bird over the plain background, such as lake that reflected overcast sky. It's work out great!

Enjoy the pictures! Happy Saturday!