Chinese gateway
Green tiles and dragons.
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A large Chinese Buddhist temple on a hill overlooking Brinchang in the Cameron Highlands, founded in 1972; it is said to be the fourth-largest Buddhist temple in Malaysia and is the largest religious building in the highlands. You enter through an ornate red Chinese gateway topped by green tiles and dragons, then climb to a multi-level complex blending Chinese and Thai styles, with spacious halls, huge gilded statues of temple guardians and walls covered in hundreds of small painted tiles. Its terraces look over Brinchang and the cultivated hills around it. Entry is free with voluntary donations, it is open from about eight in the morning to five in the afternoon, and as a working place of worship it asks for quiet and modest dress. It is a few minutes from central Brinchang and its weekend night market, so stop on your way between the tea estates and strawberry farms.
Green tiles and dragons.
Huge statues in the halls.
Cultivated hills around.
On a hill above Brinchang town, Cameron Highlands
No; the Sam Poh Temple in Brinchang is a hilltop temple in the Cameron Highlands, while Sam Poh Tong is a cave temple in Ipoh, about an hour and a half's drive away.