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 the many notables buried within. These include Kapitan Yap Ah Loy, founder of KL. There are also memorials to WWII dead.

Transportation

  • train: KL Sentral, then taxi

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3. Sri Kandaswamy Temple

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4. Sam Kow Tong Temple

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5. Buddhist Maha Vihara

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6. Evangelical Zion Lutheran Church

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Lutherans from Tamil Nadu first held a service in this area in 1907. Seventeen years later the congregation helped build this modest, attractive church.

7. Sree Veera Hanuman Temple

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Honouring Hanuman, this temple has been under reconstruction for years, and should be a striking sight when its gopura (gateway) is revealed: the tower…

8. Thean Hou Temple

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