Port Weld is famously known as a busy port historically, for its import export activities between Taiping and Penang. Port Weld apart from Teluk Anson ( now known as Teluk Intan )is also used as an exit point to the Kinta District and Upper Perak District. At that time, the import and export goods were opium, preserved vegetables, tobacco and tin ore.

Port Weld's activities with Taiping became closer when the railroad was built. The railroad from Taiping to Port Weld was started to be built in the year 1884 by a team of Ceylon Pioneer Corps and on 1 February 1885, transporting passengers and cargo from Taiping to Port Weld officially opened the railway service

Hutan Lipur Kuala Sepetang From here, you will take a leisurely walk along the 800 meter long boardwalk into the Matang Mangrove Forest and study the different species of mangrove and spot migratory birds and mud crabs which are some of the common sights

Kuala Kangsar The royal town of Kuala Kangsar (population 34,690) is a small town located at the mouth of the Kangsar River, where it flows into the Perak River in Perak, Malaysia. The Sultan of Perak officially resides here. The town of Kuala Kangsar is also the main town in the district of Kuala Kangsar.

Kuala Kangsar has been the royal seat since the 18th century. It is also the location of the first British Resident in the Malay Peninsula. By the 1890s, the growth of the tin mining towns of Ipoh and Taiping had eclipsed Kuala Kangsar, but it remains to this day one of the most attractive of the Malay royal capitals. The town is also the site of the first rubber tree planted in Malaysia. The person responsible for this was the English botanist Henry Nicholas Ridley. He was also the one that helped Malaya, become the largest rubber producer in the world. The tree still stands till today.