Titiwangsa Lake Gardens

This guide to Titiwangsa Lake Gardens in Kuala Lumpur starts with a colonial-era tin dredge still resting on the lakebed beneath the water, and traces the lake back to the Chinese miners who dug for tin here in the late nineteenth century. You'll hear how the exhausted mining pit was later reshaped into parkland by a Japanese landscape architect, and how a prime minister named the finished gardens after the mountain range running down the Peninsula. Joggers and families now cross ground built entirely on the old tin rush.