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Suburb of Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia

Buntong

Buntong is a suburb of Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

The place

Buntong is a suburb of Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. Buntong is one of the largest residential areas in the city of Ipoh. It is known for Kampung Kacang Puteh, a major industrial hub for producing Indian foods including sweets and murukku.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Buntong

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Sultan Idris Shah Mosque

    The Sultan Idris Shah II Mosque is the state mosque of Perak, Malaysia. It is situated in Ipoh, Perak's capital city, near the Birch Memorial Clock Tower.

    800 m · mosque in Malaysia · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Masjid Jalan Paloh, Ipoh

    Kg. Paloh Mosque is one of the oldest mosques in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

    1 km · mosque in Malaysia · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Azlan Shah Stadium

    Azlan Shah Stadium is a field hockey stadium at Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. It is the permanent venue of the Sultan Azlan Shah Cup.

    3.8 km · stadium in Ipoh, Malaysia · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Panglima Kinta Mosque

    Panglima Kinta Mosque is a mosque located in the city of Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. The mosque was built in 1898 by Datoh Panglima Kinta Muhamad Yusuff bin Lassam, who was then Panglima Kinta or Lord of Kinta, as a commemoration for his wife, Saaidah bt Chik, who died in the same year.

    1.3 km · mosque in Malaysia · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Darul Ridzuan Museum

    The Darul Ridzuan Museum is a museum in Ipoh, Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia.

    1.5 km · museum in Kinta, Perak, Malaysia · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Velodrome Rakyat

    The Velodrome Rakyat is a velodrome in Ipoh, Malaysia. It was inaugurated on 21 July 1989.

    3.9 km · velodrome in Ipoh, Malaysia · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Town Padang Mosque

    Town Padang Mosque, also known as the Indian Muslim Mosque, is situated on Jalan S.P. Seenivasagam in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia.

    1.2 km · mosque in Ipoh, Malaysia · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Michael's Church

    St Michael's Church is a Roman Catholic church in Ipoh, Malaysia. Completed in 1896, it was the first Christian church to be built in Ipoh.

    2.2 km · church in Ipoh, Malaysia · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Kek Look Seah Temple

    Kek Look Seah Temple is a Chinese temple located in Taman Happy of Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. The temple is known for its planchette divination and has a medical room where Chinese medicine is given – which is not common for many Buddhist temple.

    1.8 km · Chinese temple in Taman Happy of Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    Birch Memorial Clock Tower

    The Birch Memorial Clock Tower is a clock tower in Ipoh, Kinta District, Perak, Malaysia.

    900 m · clock tower in Kinta, Perak, Malaysia · Wikipedia

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Getting to Buntong

Airports
Sultan Azlan Shah (IPH), 4 km · Penang (PEN), 117 km · Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah (SZB), 171 km
Stations
Ipoh railway station, 600 m
  • Penang → Buntong
    127 km · quickest by road, 2h 48m · RM32–43
  • Subang → Buntong
    1447 km · quickest by air, 10h 32m · Rp2,876,670–4,432,980
  • Sepang → Buntong
    225 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · RM50–70
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Buntong

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Buntong. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inETS service to Butterworth (with a ferry connection to George Town (2 hr) has ticket prices of RM22-33.
  • Go nextPangkor is a 2-hour drive and ferry ride away.

From Wikivoyage: Ipoh, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    Penang, George Town and ButterworthMY

    11 ways of moving, 20 sources

    123 km
  2. 02
    LangkawiMY

    12 ways of moving, 14 sources

    240 km
  3. 03
    Hat Yai and the Songkhla border countryTH

    12 ways of moving, 21 sources

    276 km
  4. 04
    Satun and Pak BaraTH

    11 ways of moving, 18 sources

    290 km
  5. 05
    Lake Toba and SamosirID

    9 ways of moving, 23 sources

    323 km

If you know how people move in Buntong – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Buntong

Buntong is 2 km from Ipoh, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.