The lounge is reminiscent of an English restaurant with its wooden beams and ambience. Nice place to have scones and English tea. |
Ye Olde Smokehouse is an iconic building. It is typically English and much sought after as accommodation and a restaurant. |
This golf course has been converted from a "plantation course" into a well-manicured one and named Sultan Ahmad Shah Golf and Country Club, after the late Sultan of Pahang. |
Hydrophonic cultivation of strawberries. Ground below is used for planting crops like Chinese Celery. |
Hydrophonics is also employed for veggies like lettuce. |
The management is quite serious about smoking in their premises. |
The interior of the house where we had scones and English tea. Neat and nice indeed. Before acquiring the land, Zainal worked as manager of the Boh Tea Plantation for 15 years. |
View of the area including the tea plantation where Zainal worked. His house is the highest in this area. |
The lighthouse which is still in use. |
From the museum overlooking the Selangor River mouth and the sea. Cannons were in place to engage approaching enemy ships. |
A display of some weapons and other artifacts of an earlier era. |
Silver Leaf Monkeys (also Silvered Langur Presbytis) like this one are endemic to Bukit Melawati. Many visitors buy fruits and veggies from vendors to feed them. They are not aggressive in that way? |
Nasi Kandar a la KL. Normally, locals eat the rice with just a piece of chicken or beef with a mix of curries (kuah campur). |
This monument in Morib shows where the 46 Indian Beach Group landed on 9 Sept 1945 during WWII. It's relatively unknown that many Vietnamese were conscripted to serve in France during WWI. |
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