Nature tours in Kuala Lumpur take guests out of the city and into the scenic Malaysian countryside where you can get up close and personal with unique wildlife, swim in calm rivers and majestic waterfalls, and jungle-trek in lush rainforests. Accessible within an hour-long ride from Kuala Lumpur city centre, the countryside houses quaint fishing villages, animal farms and wildlife sanctuaries, forests, wetlands and mangrove swamps – perfect for those who want a temporary escape from the rigours of city life.you can enjoy a set seafood dinner and boat ride to see the twinkling fireflies. Fireflies are also called “lightning bugs” and they belong to the nocturnal luminous beetle family Lampyridae. Within quiet and serene surroundings, these fireflies live very happily in the “Berembang” trees and shine like fire in the night to attract a mate. Here you can admire the “Malaysian version of Christmas”.
KUALA GANDAH ELEPHANT SANCTUARY
understand the protected Asian elephants and the capture and translocation program for its survival. Get up close and personal with the centre’s trained elephants. Have fun feeding, grooming and bathing one of the largest mammal species in Malaysia. For the adventurous, experience the thrill of elephant riding through the sanctuary’s grounds. This was the most amazing experience. For a small fee you get to feed and bathe with the resident baby elephants. This is a real orphanage and sanctuary where the mahouts use the resident elephants to capture and relocate the problem wild population in Malaysia
Kuala Gandah Elephant Sanctuary was established in 1967 by the Department of Wildlife and National Parks. The centre is a base for the Elephant Relocation Team, which began the elephant translocation program in 1974. The only one of its kind in Malaysia, it is dedicated in relocating wild elephants from their habitat areas which are constantly being encroached upon by plantations to other suitable and protected habitats throughout peninsula Malaysia such as Taman Negara. Over the past 25 years the centre has helped prevent further decline of the elephant population by relocating more than 300 wild elephant
BATU CAVES
Just outside the city limits, these famous caverns have a main Temple Cave with
a ceiling looming over 100 metres overhead, and features ornate Hindu shrines. To reach it one has to climb a steep flight of 272 steps, a feat performed by as many as 500,000 Hindu devotes during the annual Thaipusam festival.
Pewter Factory: Royal Selangor is one of the world’s largest pewter manufacturers, founded in 1885 by a young Chinese immigrant named Yong Koon. While it might not sound like a typical attraction, the Royal Selangor Pewter Factory and Visitor Centre offers fascinating insight into Malaysia’s cultural heritage through the lens of one of its most prominent crafts.
Guided tours through the facility educate visitors on tin mining, the properties of pewter and methods for transforming the resource into tools and gifts. An onsite pewter museum showcases Yong Koon’s original smithing tools and personal items, as well as some of his original pieces. The 18,000-square-foot (1,672-square-meter) retail space has thousands of Royal Selangor products for sale to take home as gifts or souvenirs.
Visitors who want to better understand the process of manufacturing pewter can head to the visitor center, which offers two hands-on workshops, the 30-minute School of Hard Knocks, in which participants make a pewter dish using traditional tools and the 60-minute Foundry, in which visitors can create a unique pewter accessory using modern methods.
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