Tasik Cermin – a 'secret lake' near Ipoh worth slowing down for


By PS OOI
Photos By HA LEE

Rafts moving gently through the calm waters, like leaves on a breeze. Tasik Cermin isn’t a lake; it’s a quiet dream you can paddle through.

There are places so secret they seem to whisper; Tasik Cermin – or Mirror Lake – is one of them.

Tucked behind the limestone folds on the industrial edge of Ipoh – where cement trucks rumble past factories and the heat bakes gravel grey – a different world waits in stillness.

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