Welcome 2019!

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KLAT Updates 2019.

Welcome, 2019! KLAT wishes you a blast and great New Year 2019! May the new year brings you joy, prosperity and happiness all year round. May 2019 is filled up with many good moments and time while successfully achieving our dreams and goals with the hope of a better life in this new year.

Ushering 2019, KLAT has been recently re-activated with the brand new walking tour programmes and social media presence. So, to all our dearest clients and readers, kindly visit, follow and like our social media and new platforms presence as per below:

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Stay tuned and keep posted with our updates from these above pages from time to time, including this KLAT Blogspot page!

Thank you! Terima kasih!

Happy New Year 2019!
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Sultan Abdul Samad Building

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The Sultan Abdul Samad Building is the most prominent colonial building located in Kuala Lumpur. It serves as a government building since its inception in 1897. It has often been related to the British colonialism in Malaysia.

Unlike the most British colonial architecture in Singapore, India or Australia, the British colonial architecture in Malaysia, or formerly known as Malaya, departed from the Neoclassical or British Victorian architecture. This was due to the fact that Malaya was a consisted of several Malay protected stated with heredity rulers, the Sultans.

 Front elevation view © Stefan Fussan | Wikimedia.org |  Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
In order to appease the Malay Sultans, and also to impose the Malay-Islamic images to the people, the British architects had imparted the foreign architectural language, including the Mughal architecture from India. Sultan Abdul Samad Building is one of the many Mughal-inspired architecture built in the country.

Named after the former Sultan of Selangor, the building is noted for its clock tower, adorned with onion-shaped dome and built with masonry finishes. Other than the domes, the building facade is heavily decorated with a series of pointed arches, crenellations and pediments.

View from Independence Square with Victoria Fountain in the foreground © Earth | Wikimedia.org |   Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 Generic
The elongated building, is a part of the classic British colonial city planning, with the main civic building facing a wide green space, clustered with with few other civic and public buildings, and connected to the main roads, rivers or railroads.

The building has been inscribed to the National Heritage status and now has been administered d by the Department of National Heritage. It has been used as a gallery space, and also the main avenue during the Independence Day Parade, combined together with the adjacent Independence Square during the 31st August every year.

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Tour Packages

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Tour Packages are a selection of pre-arranged tour destinations that meet your interests and convenience. They can be added or modified accordingly, depending on your interests, budget, time and etc.

The available Tour Packages are:

1. The Heritage Treasure - A heritage trail that explores the old colonial quarters of Kuala Lumpur and its surrounding areas, which encompasses the nearby area of Klang River estuary, from the east riverbank area of Petaling Street (Chinatown) to the west riverbank area of the old train station and National Mosque. Witness a unique adaptive colonial architecture in the former railway warehouse in the northskirt of city in Sentul.

2. The Modern Marvels - Kuala Lumpur boasts some of the world-renowned architect's signatures, which are located in the Golden Triangle area of Bukit Bintang, KLCC and Ampang Road. The similar wonders can be found in the city transportation hub of KL Sentral.

3. The Nature Appreciation - A trail to Kuala Lumpur's very own nature sanctuary of Perdana Botanical Garden or KLCC Park right in the city or trekking inside a pocket of permanent rainforest of Bukit Nanas.

4. The Malay Charm - A revisit to the century old Malay traditional settlement known as kampong in the middle of the city. Experience the lifestyle, culinary and bustling activities beginning from Chow Kit Road to Kampung Baru.

5. Beyond The City - Hop into several attractions beyond the city proper, including the Hindu temple inside a limestone cave of Batu Caves, the world's first intelligent and planned city of Putrajaya with magnificent government quarters featuring the 'Pink' and 'Steel' Mosque or the gigantic 'Blue' Mosque in outskirt city of Shah Alam.
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