Sunway Lagoon
Theme park on reclaimed tin-mining land, with water rides, thrill zones, and a wildlife area.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Sunway Lagoon follows Jeffrey Cheah, a former accountant with no property background, who looked at eighty-eight acres of poisoned tin-mine wasteland in Selangor and saw a waterpark. It traces the effort to drain toxic ponds and reintroduce earthworms to soil experts had written off, and the 1992 opening that Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad made official the following year. Today those acres hold well over a hundred attractions across seven parks.
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