Parks and Gardens in Malaysia

[travellator]

like the close up of the dragonfly, well done TYW
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/7109/52659616lo4.jpg

[TYW]

Originally Posted by travellator

like the close up of the dragonfly, well done TYW
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/7109/52659616lo4.jpg

thanks, travellator

[cooltemper]

Originally Posted by travellator

like the close up of the dragonfly, well done TYW
http://img76.imageshack.us/img76/7109/52659616lo4.jpg

Yup, that is true.

[TYW]

Originally Posted by cooltemper

Yup, that is true.

thanks to u 2, cooltemper

[SEAfan]

Good of you to dig up this thread, travellator!

I can't imagine how I could have missed it ... so many great photos by TYW of Malaysia's beautiful coast and other nature shots!

Originally Posted by TYW

Now this one is just

Incredibly well done, TYW!

[TYW]

thanks for your appreciation, SEAfan!!

[cng1974]

Taiping Lake Garden pics>> http://taipingtalk.com/lake/

[SEAfan]

Oh you know I mean it, TYW!

@cng: those are lovely nature shots! Is this a park in or near Taiping?

Also: it's perfectly OK to link your photos so they show up right here.

[nazrey]

Music fest to draw 15,000
Tuesday July 10, 2007
TheStar




Scenic venue: A photo showing Taman Kuari in Penang, the venue for the
World Musical Festival to be held from July 20 to 22. The road to the venue
will be fully decorated by the end of next week.

PENANG: At least 15,000 people will gather at the World Musical Festival in Taman Kuari from July 20 to 22.

Steps would be taken to ensure smooth traffic flow on the road leading to the venue, state tourism chief Teng Chang Yeow said after inspecting the site yesterday.

“The road to Taman Kuari will be fully decorated by the end of next week. This festival is one of the main events held in conjunction with Visit Malaysia 2007,” he said.

The festival will feature 13 international bands from the Solomon Islands, the United States, Afghanistan, Italy, South Africa, Russia, Peru, Britain, Burkina Faso and other countries.

Teng said a series of promotional activities had been held in Koh Samui and Phuket to draw foreign tourists.

Jointly organised by the Tourism Ministry, Tourism Malaysia and the Penang Tourism Action Council (PTAC), it will showcase cultural, community and folk-inspired music with strong ethnic edge and identity.

Tickets are priced at RM40 for adults and RM10 for children. For details, contact the Penang Tourism Action Council at 04-262 0202 or visit www.tourismpenang.gov.my.

[cooltemper]

The link is unvalid, i think they didn't pay the internet fee again.

WTF, tourism of penang really SUCKS. Mempersiahsuikan Penang only.

[TYW]

Taman Kuari is in Botanical Gardens right?? but which part?? i didn't see it when i went there last month

[cooltemper]

That why i click on the link thougth that can get some info, mana zai, the link is not working.

[nazrey]

KLCC park

[nazrey]

by [ fq9 ]

image hosted on flickr

[nazrey]

KLCC park
from flickr

[nazrey]

KLCC park
From flickr

image hosted on flickr


image hosted on flickr

[cookanomics]

Great job KL..
I would be so pround if i was malay

[nazrey]

Three-year upgrading project for Lake Gardens
By BAVANI M Tuesday April 27, 2010

THE upgrading of Taman Tasik Perdana (Lake Gardens) will not only see it being transformed into a botanical garden with plenty of flowering plants but will involve old and rare trees being labelled for better identification, said Kuala Lumpur mayor Datuk Seri Ahmad Fuad Ismail.

Fuad said this would enable visitors to the park to know more about the plant species in the country and take photographs. The mayor also said all the trees would be retained and maintained during the upgrading work.

“We will also plant more colourful plants as well as fruit trees – not the fruits that can be eaten but the ones that look nice,’’ he added.

Fuad revealed that there are plans to include a garden for the blind and that several private companies had agreed to donate RM1mil to upgrade Kuala Lumpur’s oldest park.

The upgrading project will take about three years to complete and will be divided into three phases: short-term, intermediate and long-term with phase one taking about six months to complete.

[hakz2007]

LIGITAN TO BE GAZETTED SEPARATELY AS PROTECTED PARK

SEMPORNA, Malaysia May 2 (NNN-Bernama) -- Ligitan Island, off here, will be gazetted as a protected park in a separate process as it involves a vast area and located far from Sipadan, the world-renowned diving spot which was gazetted as a protected park last year.

Sabah Parks director Paul Basintal said the process would provide for a better management of the island upon its gazettement.

He said Ligitan Island, about an hour of boat ride from Sipadan Island, had its own unique features including a massive stretch of coral reef measuring 20km in length.

"Due to these features there is a need to gazette the island separately. We are ready to manage the island," he told reporters here following a fact-finding mission to the island on Thursday.

Also in the group were researchers from Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Fisheries Department and Mineral and Geoscience Department.

The mission was a side programme in conjunction with the five-day Sipadan Island Park scientific expedition which ended on Friday.

Initial finding revealed damages to the coral reef due to destructive fishing methods such as the use of explosives.

Paul said the areas to be gazetted as protected park would be determined based on ecological boundaries, namely the outer edge of the coral reef field.

He added that the management plan for Ligitan would be different from that of the Sipadan Island Park as it would be based on an integrated marine management owing to Ligitan Island's location in the Coral Triangle.

Coral Triangle, dubbed the "Amazon of the Ocean", is a vast tropical marine waters of Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, the Philippines, Solomon Islands and Timor-Leste.

Paul said Sabah Parks would submit a report to the Joint Committee chaired by the National Security Division, underlining the initial process to gazette the island and surrounding waters.

It would also cover awareness campaign among members of the sea-faring community in the area, he said.

This would be followed by employing measures to safeguard the area, he added.

According to him, at the moment Ligitan Island is not protected by any ordinance or enactment either under the state or federal legislation.

http://www.namnewsnetwork.org/v2/read.php?id=118925

[hakz2007]

I'll support that move