Ah Seng Blog (Part 2): 2024 July Local Trip - Gopeng 务边 (HOGA Gaharu Tea Valley Gopeng 务边沉香山茶园)

Monday, July 15, 2024

2024 July Local Trip - Gopeng 务边 (HOGA Gaharu Tea Valley Gopeng 务边沉香山茶园)

霹雳州务边( GOPENG ) 华人路名Gopeng. Perak. Chinese Name Street 务边是霹雳州最早以华裔先贤名字命名的地方.

Gopeng was the most important town in the Kinta Valley until 1890, when Ipoh became more prominent. Gopeng was intensively mined by both European and Chinese miners, the latter having significant Hakka representation under Chung Keng Kwee, the leader of the Hai San secret society during the Larut War. He was appointed as the Kapitan Cina after the Pangkor Treaty, and although his main homes were in Taiping and Penang, he maintained his foothold in Gopeng, securing contracts for street lighting there in 1892 as well as building quarters for civil servants thereafter. For the first few decades after British intervention, Gopeng was run by a tripartite; the Europeans, the Chinese led by the Eu family, and the Sumatrans by the Assistant Penghulu Imam Prang Ja Barumun. Gopeng is also one of the first places where large numbers of Orang Asli came into contact with outsiders in the 19th century.

We are stopped by Gopeng from Genting before heading to Ipoh,

R&R with EV Super Charger ready now..................

HOGA Gaharu Tea Valley Gopeng 务边沉香山茶园

HOGA@Gaharu Tea Valley, Gopeng is Malaysia's first and largest organic plantation of Gaharu/Agarwood an endangered species, Aquilaria Spp.
Close every TUES, open on holidays

Lot 9840, Kampung Sungai Itek,, Gopeng, Malaysia

HOGA Gaharu Tea Valley Gopeng 务边沉香山茶园 MAP