Kuala Lumpur

Kuala Lumpur is the capital of Malasya and it posses an interesting blenf of the old and the new.

The cultural mix is evident by a thriving Chinatown, an Indian quarter, Malay women in headscarves doing their shopping in them both, and young boys practising cricket on the downtown playing field.

The city was founded by Chinese tin-miners in 1857, and expanded under the British between 1873 and 1957.
It became the capital of the British-protected Federation of Malay States in 1895.