Brickfields, It is known as Kuala Lumpur's Little India due to the high percentage of Indian residents and businesses. Brickfields colourful maze of textile shops and jewellery stores, restaurants serving dosa pancakes and banana-leaf curries.
- Visit grand heritage buildings not found elsewhere in the city
- Visit interesting churches, temples and shrines to liven up the rows
- Feel and Smell the Indian Culture
- Visit The Maha Vihara Buddhist Temple
- Large number of Indian restaurants on the route
- 3 hour Walking tour of Little India with Friendly Tour Guide
Meeting Point: KL Sentral Monorail Station Exit (Gate A). Meet & Greet at meeting point, after brief introduction, proceed to our first visit.
Pass by the Little India Shop area where you can see the Indian restaurant , Jewelry Shops , Indian costumes ext. We will taste some Indian cookies.
The first attraction is Vivekananda Ashram constructed in 1904. This elegant whitewashed building with Moghul style embellishments was named in honour of the Indian spiritual leader Vivekananda who visited Malaya in 1893.
The area is full of the sights, sounds and smells that you find in other Little India districts elsewhere in Malaysia such as parlours offering bridal beauty treatments, general stores brimming with incense sticks, kitchenware and other products sourced from India, shops selling saris, jewellery, Pooja altars, Hindi movies, Bombay Mix and sweetmeats, Tamilan internet cafes, curry shops, sugar cane stalls and more. Past florist shops selling garlands of fragrant jasmine and other colourful blooms, brings us to the brightly painted Little India District which was recently given a new look and inaugurated by the Prime Ministers of India and Malaysia on 27 October 2010.
We then passing the Catholic Our Lady of Fatima church and, further along Jalan Sultan Abdul Samad
Passing by Jalan Berhala: means Shrine Street and on this road the Brickfields Heritage Walk passes more places of worship
Was founded by the Sinhalese community in 1894 most devotees seemed to be mostly Chinese. In the grounds of the temple is a Bodhi tree grown from a cutting taken from the sacred Bodhi tree in Anuradhapura Sri Lanka. Opposite the temple is a magnificently preserved traditional wooden house in Malay style . It is a pre WW2 house and the whole street was once that design. The house was occupied by the parents of a Malaysian tycoon who has since restored it and keeps it for private use.
The Klang River is a river which flows through Kuala Lumpur and Selangor in Malaysia and eventually flows into the Straits of Malacca. Tamil Methodist Church: The nearby Tamil Methodist Church, established in 1896 (though the present building dates from the 1960s), has a similar role and that they perform services in Nepali, Indonesian, Telugu and English as well as in Tamil
Which dates from 1924. This church would probably have been established to compete for the souls of the area's Tamil community.
The Brickfields Walk rejoins Jalan Sultan Abdul Samad, passing the Madrasathul Gouthiyyah Surau, a mosque and madrassa built in the 1980s catering mostly to Indian Muslims
Brickfields Shivan Temple : Brickfields Shivan Temple is one of the most visited temples in the country.
This Chinese temple located in Brickfields was founded in 1916 by the Heng Hua clan. It's name translates to "Hall of Three teachings"
Malaysian Association For The Blind (MAB): On the opposite corner is the Malaysian Association For The Blind complex. Number of them must find work in the many Blind Massage Centres which can be found in Jalan Thambypillai particularly.
YMCA of Kuala Lumpur Hostel : Little India Walk headed back towards KL Sentral, passing along Jalan Padang Belia (where the YMCA is located) before turning into Jalan Thambypillai. For food there are, as you would expect, a large number of Indian restaurants on the route of the Little India Walking Tour. The distance of suggested route is 3-4 km and we spent about 3 hours here in total including a snack break
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