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Peking Hotel Built in 1929, it was formerly the rubber dealer's association. During the Japanese Occupation, it was the notorious headquarters of the Kampeitei(Japanese military police). Guan Hin Chan This well established building was the premises of a cigar factory started by a Burmese Chinese. In the 1930s, it employed Burmese women to roll cigars from Moulmein tobacco. During the Japanese Occupation, it was used by the occupying forces to store tin ore. Public Library This government building was once the premises of the Chartered Bank  of India, Australia and China, later known as the Standard Chartered Bank, which opened its Taiping agency in 1888. Today, it houses the public library. The predecessor of this library was "an excellent Reading and Recreation Room for the Officers of Government" constructed in 1882.			Tseng Lung Hakka Association Founded around 1887, the Tseng Lung-Kuan is the association of people from Tseng ch'eng and Lung men counties of Kuan-chou prefecture in South China. Taiping War Cemetery The cemetery containers 826 graves of Commonwealth casualties who fell before the advance of the Japanese in the "Campaign in Malaya". It was constructed and is maintained by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

To run away and enjoy free-flow traffic, fresh country air, cool, clean breeze with only the sound of rustling palms against a backdrop orchestra of waves is a constant quest for city folks. The quest can end at the Bukit Larut Hill Resort.

REVISED 05 July, 1998