Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
Sitting atop leafy Robson Heights, this vividly decorated multistorey Chinese temple, dedicated to Thean Hou, the heavenly queen, affords wonderful views…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
Sitting atop leafy Robson Heights, this vividly decorated multistorey Chinese temple, dedicated to Thean Hou, the heavenly queen, affords wonderful views…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
Inhabiting a building that's nearly as impressive as its collection, this museum showcases Islamic decorative arts from around the globe. Scale models of…
Lake Gardens – Tun Abdul Razak Heritage Park
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
This 70-hectare lush, beautifully landscaped park is most commonly known by its colonial-era moniker: the Lake Gardens (Tasik Perdana in Malay). This is…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
On a palm-fringed plaza, with fine views of KL's skyscrapers, stands this bombastic monument. Commemorating military sacrifices in the name of Malaysian…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
The first stages of this 27-hectare park have opened in recent years, with the third and final stage originally due for completion some time in 2020. It…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
A community group led by local architect Ng Seksan has created this garden on an 8-acre linear strip of land reserved for the national electricity company…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
More than 3000 birds flutter and soar through this 21-hectare aviary. Some 200 species of (mostly) Asian birds can be spotted here, from strutting…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
In an expansive double-storey building, this hidden gem promotes local art heavyweights and emerging names like Zarina Abdullah and Anassuwandi Ahmad. The…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
You can tour the first two floors of this grand mansion, originally built as a family home in 1928 by Chinese tin tycoon Chan Wing. From 1957 it served as…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
This museum offers a good primer on Malaysia's history, from prehistoric to present day. The country's geological features and prehistory are tackled in…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
One of KL's most distinctive colonial buildings, this grand 1910 train station (replaced as a transit hub by KL Sentral in 2001) was designed by British…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
Strolling around KL's oldest public park, established in the 1880s, you'll admire native and introduced flora, including 800 species of orchid, mahogany…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
Set up to educate urbanites about gardens and plants, this NGO has given away over 21,000 trees since 2013. Its work is showcased at a lush compact garden…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
Drop into this interesting museum to view the gallery of wood carvings and masks produced by the Mah Meri, who live along the south coast of Selangor and…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
This colonial-era mansion is the headquarters of the trust overseeing Taman Tugu. Inside, by appointment, you can view plans of how KL's newest park will…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
This temple, fronted by an elaborate modern gopura (gateway), was founded by the Sri Lankan community in 1909 as a place to practise Shaiva Siddhanta, a…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
The elegant design of this gigantic 1960s mosque was inspired by Mecca’s Masjid al-Haram. Able to accommodate 15,000 worshippers, it has an umbrella-like…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
One of KL's best small museums offers a fascinating history of Malaysia through the story of policing. Discover not just the uniforms that distinguished…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
Established in 1916 by the Heng Hua clan, the 'three teachings' temple has a beautiful Hokkien-style temple roof, with graceful curving ridgelines that…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
This historic and pleasingly designed ashram, built in 1904 and part of the global Ramakrishna movement, is a well-loved subject for photographers. It…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
For art lovers it's worth making an appointment to view architect Ng Seksan's superb collection of Malaysian contemporary art, so large that he's turned…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
Opened in 2017, the new home of Pertubuhan Akitek Malaysia (PAM) – the Architects' Association of Malaysia – is a distinctive contemporary building that…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
Part of the National Space Agency, the planetarium offers shows in the Space Theatre throughout the day. It has an observation deck (for looking at KL)…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
Founded in 1894 by Sinhalese settlers, this is one of KL's major Theravada Buddhist temples. It's a particular hive of activity around Wesak Day, the…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
This is a great place to get up close with a hundred or so of the 1100-plus butterfly species found in Malaysia, including the enormous and well-named…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
As the printing business evolved in the early 21st century, the owners of Art Printing Works have creatively converted defunct parts of their plant into…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
The original shrine for Lord Vinayagar (the remover of obstacles) in Brickfields was a shack on Jln Sultan Abdul Samad. Such was the humble start of many…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
This lovely garden is dedicated to Malaysia’s national flower and surrounds a small colonial-era house (closed to the public).
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
The house where Tun Abdul Razak lived while serving as Malaysia's second prime minister has been turned into a memorial museum displaying his personal…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
Honouring Hanuman, this temple has been under reconstruction for years, and should be a striking sight when its gopura (gateway) is revealed: the tower…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
This eye-catching fountain is the focal point of KL's official 'Little India'. Symbolic elements in the fountain's design include elephants, swans,…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
This cluster of small open-air enclosures is home to a collection of tame deer including the tiny Tragulus kanchil (lesser mouse deer), the world’s…
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
This sprawling Chinese cemetery is notable not just for its immense size (333 hectares of rolling grassy hills and fragrant frangipani trees) but also for…
Museum of Malay World Ethnology
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
Contains displays on Malay musical instruments, games, textiles and metalwork, including an impressive gallery of beautifully engraved weapons.
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
Cut off from the bulk of Brickfields by the highway Jln Damansara, this Catholic church built in 1903 is worth a look for its French Gothic Revival style…
Malayan Railway Administration Building
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
KTM has its offices in this handsome Indo-Saracenic piece of architecture, dating back to 1917.
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
There are many different species of orchid on display here and the gardens are a pleasant place to walk around and admire them; unfortunately there is…
SMK La Salle Brickfields Murals
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
Decorating panels of this school's exterior wall are colourful murals covering the history of Brickfields and including details on the now demolished 100…
Jalan Tun Sambanthan Garland Sellers
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
Follow the scent of jasmine to find this alley of garland stalls, where stall holders skilfully weave brightly coloured flowers into garlands used in…
Evangelical Zion Lutheran Church
Lake Gardens, Brickfields & Bangsar
Lutherans from Tamil Nadu first held a service in this area in 1907. Seventeen years later the congregation helped build this modest, attractive church.