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Perak. Tapah is the centre of the tin mining and
planting district of Batang Padang. Railway motor
service runs from Tapah Road Station to Tapah,
connecting with trains.
KUALA LUMPUR.
As the down train reaches Kuala Lumpur at
6.23 p.m. and leaves again for Singapore at
8.30 p.m. there is an interval of more than two hours,
which should not be filled by dinner, for that is
served on the train as soon as it starts on the night
journey. On the station there are dressing rooms
with bath-rooms attached, where one can take the
usual afternoon bath of the tropics between trains
and start again somewhat refreshed. The same
applies to the up train. It arrives at 6.45 a.m. and
leaves for Penang at 8 a.m., and breakfast is served
on it, so that there is ample time for a bath and
even for a run in a rikisha to see something of
Kuala Lumpur. The station hotel is on the
same side of the station as the European quarter,
and the traveller should leave the station on the
hotel side, for if he leaves it on the other side he
may very well lose his way in the native town. To
see something of Kuala Lumpur between trains,
ChooTner. Kuala Lumpur.
The Padang, Kuala Lumpur.
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Malay Mosque, Kuala Lumpur,
take a rikisha from under the hotel porch and start
off to the left up the hill, leaving the railway bridge
on the left, and keep right on down Damansara
Road. A few minutes' run brings you to the
Museum, on the right, on a bank above the road,
and going past it, for it is too early or too late to
look in, bear right-handed and in between the
pillars of the entrance to the Gardens. Keeping
straight on, you have the Lake on the left and the
hill on the right, whilst all before and around you
a series of most lovely views takes up the morning
or the evening light. Continuing straight on, you
begin to cHmb a hill, up which runs an avenue of
splendid palms ending at the Lake Club. This
you leave on your left, and by a winding road,
still in the Gardens, arrive at the meeting of several
roads known as Seven Dials. From this you
plunge straight on down hill, passing, on the right,
at the bottom, the Volunteer headquarters, and
thence you reach the level crossing. On the right