Kek LokTong in Ipoh

This temple cave is not new to Ipoh folks but still slightly newer than the old famous Sam Poh Tong and Perak Tong.

Over the long weekend with the Malaysia Day holiday, we chilled out a bit being relieved from the much hyped about URPS assessment.

We invited one of kor's best friend along with his family to the Lost World of Tambun, which would be in another post, and took them around sightseeing in this little hidden cave in the neighborhood 

This cave held many special times in my childhood days. I remember when it was opened way back in the 80s, my friends and I had many several happy moments there, walking and chasing each other, playing hide and seek, camwhoring, paktoh-ing....

 Nowadays, there are more and more little details added on to attract the visitors or maybe just a decoration to beautify up the place. I love these little bonzai lined up at both the sides of the stairs leading up to the cave inside.

 It was a very pleasant time taking close up pictures of those little miniatures with the cooling breeze in the air. Did I already mention it's always cool at that place? The cave which opened up to a park as pictured below provided a natural airway for the breeze to flow and hence makes a very nice cooling wind all day long.

 It seemed that the grandeur of those stalagtites lost its charm but I could be wrong. Maybe when we were young and haven't seen the outside world as much, these beauty seemed to impress us more back then?

As we were walking out back to the car, the kids ran off to another direction while I continued to admire the miniatures on the other side of the staircase by myself. After awhile, the kids ran over to me and said somebody called out to them and said that he knew them. My eyes lit up and asked who, if they knew? They said that person claimed to be my cousin, but didi begged to differ, he suggested he could be the bad guy who was trying to get close to them.

I walked over to see who that person was and turned out indeed, my cousin brother whose family I had stayed with when I was 15-17yo. One of my favorite cousins, who's around my age and grew up with us, and damn handsome looking guy. Apparently, he was there with his friend doing charity work, beautifying the place, I forgot to asked him if he had contributed to those pretty miniatures all around the place. Bumping into him felt so good, as normally we would see each other during CNY time only.

Oh, did I also mention before Kek Lok Tong is the place where my hubs first held my hand? Although he had held my hand before during the hike which sparked us off, but that time was different. I could still remember here, what I wore, how he did that and what he said. It was the sweetest thing, he said he wouldn't let go of my hand from that time on. *smile*