What Came Before
History
TODO — what history in Kuala Lumpur are actually worth the time.
3 placesMerdeka
Sultan Abdul Samad and Merdeka Square
The field where the Union Jack came down in 1957, and the striped clock tower that watched it happen.
The Rivers
Masjid Jamek and the Confluence
The muddy confluence the city is named after, with the oldest mosque in Kuala Lumpur standing on the spit between the two rivers.
Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin
Kuala Lumpur Railway Station
A 1910 station of minarets and horseshoe arches, built to a British specification requiring a roof that could carry a metre of snow.