Visitors must travel here, by boat, as an excursion from a surrounding island, alighting at a small jetty beside the ancient port, now silted up.
Tourists must arrive by boat from a nearby island.
Home to the Sultans of Perakiaor the past 500 years, Kuala Kangsar is built on a sweep of the Perakiaiver (Sungei Perakia50 km (32 miles) from Ipoh on a newer highway.