Malaysia's oldest planned town, Taiping was the capital of Perak during the tin rush and contains the country's oldest museum (1883), oldest railway (1885), oldest public park (1880), and the oldest English-medium school in Southeast Asia — a remarkable concentration of national firsts in a town that the rise of Ipoh largely superseded but that has retained a quiet, authentic charm unavailable in its more famous neighbour.
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