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Kellies Castle

Hey everyone !! We are back for another new destination !! ^_^

Do you know about Kellie Castle that locate near Ipoh?

Don't know??

Let us tell you,

As starter, Kellies Castle is located near Batu Gajah, and is about 20 minutes' drive from Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia. The unfinished, ruined mansion, was built by a Scottish planter named William Kellie Smith. According to differing accounts, it was either a gift for his wife or a home for his son.

Here's the map that direct you from Batu Gajah

And this is the front view of Kellies Castle

Just for some history info,

Kellies Castle was build by William Kellie to celebrate his son, Anthony's birth that able to success him. And Smith started to expand this castle and plan to called it Kellas House, after his home town in Scotland.

This is the sign board shows the sight seeing time for KellIies Castle

That day is a very hot day~~, All of us had one umbrella with us ^_^

We walking up to Kellies Castle through a very long stairs and the view there is fabulous.

The small hut above the stairs were not build during William's time, its build for tourist to relax and enjoy the view.

Now, we're heading into the castle

This is the store house that store wine and beverage when William and his family lives here

After proceeding from the wine storage, we reaches the main hall of the ground floor, it connected to the door to outside and stairs to upstairs.

These 2 picture are taken from the second floor, there are part of the castle is unfinished because of the World War killed many worker in the Kelle Estate and the infection of flu during that time.

This is the hall way of second floor that connect every room and to the balcony. The wall along the walkway is fill with history of what happen during William's day

This is the master room where William and his family stayed, it even build in an emergency stairway to escape during pinch.

We have reach the roof top. This roof is for William to view his estate upon completion, the roof field is so big it can even park a helicopter

This is the view that look from above

This is the back garden of the castle where William's children often play at

This is last section behind the castle, its the guard man's room and stable room.

Here are more information about Kellies Castle :

Oh~~ and below is the ticket price per visit ^_^

and Kellies Castle can also be a spot for Married couple photo taking with a price of RM50  0.0

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