Botanical Gardens Penang

This guide to the Botanical Gardens Penang follows plant collector Charles Curtis, who in 1884 looked at an abandoned granite quarry below Penang Hill and spent nineteen years turning it into the garden visitors nicknamed the Waterfall Gardens. It then traces a stranger chapter from the Japanese occupation of the 1940s, when soldiers dug bunkers near the lily ponds and laid train tracks through the valley to move munitions. Listen near the lily ponds, where the ground still hides that history.