DEPENDING on your age, Baling town will evoke different memories for you - either the 1955 Peace Talks between first Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra and exiled leader of the Communist Party of Malaya Chin Peng or university students demonstrating in 1974 over the plight of poor farmers or as the place where Ibrahim Libya and his supporters were shot by the police in Kampung Memali in 1985.
Today, Baling is known for its eco-tourism products like the Ulu Legong Hot Spring and Recreation Park in Mukim Siong, the Orang Asli Settlement in Mukim Siong, the lush and cool waterfalls at Lata Bayu and Bukit Hijau and the rough off-roads and jungle-trekking activities for the hardy.
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