The Lake Gardens is a beautiful vast piece of greenery. It’s probably one of the few pieces of green land left in this modern city of Kuala Lumpur. If you were looking for an escape to the city’s hectic lifestyle, then Lake Gardens is the ideal place for relax and charging up your energy.

The Lake Gardens is also known as Taman Tasik Perdana in Malay and it is situated at Jalan Perdana on the western edge of Kuala Lumpur. The Lake Gardens was originally constructed in the 19th century for the governing British elite. Today the Lake Garden is the capital’s biggest and most popular park, with a large lake at its center where boats can be hired. It’s a place ideal for outdoor activities such as jogging and cycling as there are plenty of walking and cycling trails crisscrossing the park.

Lake Garden Travel Map

Within the gardens are a number of other attractions, the highlight of which is the Bird Park. Said to be the world’s largest walk-in free flight aviary, the park houses around 3,000 tropical birds including flamingos, hornbills and parrots. There is also a Butterfly Park which is home to over 6,000 butterflies of at least 120 different species.

There is also an Orchid Garden which showcases over 800 species of Malay orchids. Some of the orchids are for sale during the weekend. Therefore, if you are an Orchid enthusiasts, the Orchid Garden is the place to go to hunt for your treasures.

On the southern edge of the Lake Gardens is the National Planetarium, which stages various shows and screens IMAX movies. If you are a big fan of IMAX movies or if you haven’t seen an IMAX movie before, don’t miss this opportunity of catching one.

There is also a 50-ft high bronze National Monument which commemorates the defeat of the Communist insurgency at the northern end of Lake Gardens. It was created in 1966 by Felix de Weldon, who was best known for the Iwo Jima monument in Washington, D.C.

The Lake Gardens also houses a few colonial monuments presiding over the western boundary. One of most famous monuments is the Carcosa Seri Negara. There are a couple of smaller monuments around the park which serves as buildings for the police, civil service, banking and former political leaders.

The contact for the respective tourist places are as follow:

Bird Park Tel (03) 2272-1010
Butterfly Pak Tel (03) 2693-4799
National Planetarium Tel (03) 2273-4303

Lake Gardens, Kuala Lumpur

Lake Gardens, Kuala Lumpur

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