Malaysia
Southeast Asia’s second-biggest mosque is a dazzling sight: four 142m-high minarets stand sentry around its latticed blue dome, the largest in the world for a religious building. The prayer hall can hold as many as 24,000 worshippers. Allow time to walk around the ornate building. Modestly dressed visitors are allowed inside, though menstruating women, warns a sign, are not.
It's worth the inconvenient journey to get there. Get a taxi from Shah Alam and ask the driver to wait for you.
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Resembling twin silver rockets, the Petronas Towers are the perfect allegory for the meteoric rise of the city from tin-mining shanty town to 21st-century…
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Although the Petronas Towers are taller, the 421m Menara KL, rising from the crest of Bukit Nanas, offers the best city views. The bulb at the top…
Forest Research Institute Malaysia
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A fresh green haven in easy reach of Kuala Lumpur, the 545-hectare Forest Research Institute Malaysia (FRIM) is an active centre of forest management…
![[UNVERIFIED CONTENT] Masjid Jamek is the oldest mosque in Kuala Lumpur. It is located at the confluence of the Klang and Gombak river. It was built in 1907 and officially open by the then Sultan Selangor in 1909.](https://lp-cms-production.imgix.net/2019-06/477284513_master.jpg?fit=crop&ar=1%3A1&w=1200&auto=format&q=75)
Masjid Jamek Sultan Abdul Samad
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This graceful, onion-domed mosque, designed by British architect AB Hubback, borrows Mogul and Moorish styles with its brick-and-plaster banded minarets…
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Sitting atop leafy Robson Heights, this vividly decorated multistorey Chinese temple, dedicated to Thean Hou, the heavenly queen, affords wonderful views…
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Inhabiting a building that's nearly as impressive as its collection, this museum showcases Islamic decorative arts from around the globe. Scale models of…
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The huge open square, where Malaysian independence was declared in 1957, is speared by a 95m flagpole, one of the world's tallest. In the British era, the…
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At the heart of the mammoth KLCC development, this excellent park offers a 1.3km soft-surface jogging track, a great children's playground and paddling…
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If you happen to be in the neighbourhood, this street-art project in a narrow alley provides a welcome splash of colour with its evolving murals of urban…
2. Galeri Diraja Sultan Abdul Aziz
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Housed within a well-restored colonial-era building are treasures of the Selangor Sultanate, which dates back to 1766. The building, designed by prolific…
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This vividly red-and-white-striped fire station has occupied the same Victorian-style building since the 1890s and now also houses a small museum…
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This was the Selangor sultan’s palace before the capital was moved to Shah Alam. You can’t enter, but the park opposite offers a decent view.
5. Masjid Diraja Sultan Suleiman
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There's something a little sci-fi about the soaring concrete domes and rocket-ship minaret of this former state mosque. Opened in 1934 it's a striking…
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If you need a break from frenetic, urban KL, this sleepy Malay village, located in a hilly, jungly landscape, is the solution – it's less than a 30-minute…
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Rimbun Dahan is a private arts centre open to the public only a handful of times each year (check online for dates). The property boasts reconstructed…
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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…