Gunung Pulai Recreational Forest
Rainforest hill reserve with waterfalls, jungle trails and old waterworks that once supplied Singapore.
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This guide to Gunung Pulai Recreational Forest, outside Johor Bahru, follows David Murnane, the Dublin-born engineer who ran Singapore's water, through the last days before the fall of Singapore in February nineteen forty-two. It reaches back to the nineteen-twenties deal with Sultan Ibrahim that sent this mountain's streams south across the strait, and to a wartime request for help that came back badly short. Best heard beside one of the small waterfalls, where you can hear the water running.
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