Kuala Lumpur - Lake Garden (Wait, you mean you can walk there from KL Sentral!???)

As suggested by the title of this post, yes Lake Garden, or in Bahasa Malaysia, called Taman Tasik Perdana, is as its name suggested, a garden with a lake in the middle, which located in the busy city of Kuala Lumpur.

I was there exploring the area with my friend back in 2002, when we were still university student.  13 years have pass, and I wonder how that place have become now.  So I decide to go for a walk around the area again.  This time of course is with my colleague.

Now there's another reason for this journey.  One day in last month (January 2015), my colleague shared that there was a tourist asking her on how to get to National Museum from our work place, Plaza Sentral, which is just next to KL Sentral.  She didn't know how, so she asked the tourist to take a taxi instead.  I told her that National Museum can be reached from where we are on foot, and she was shocked by it.  She doesn't even know that Lake Garden can be reached from National Museum either.  For one moment I thought...  "Are you really KL resident?".  So in the end we decided to go explore the area together, and asked other colleagues to join in as well, but in the end only the 2 of us, the most enthusiastic out of the bunch to explore the place.

Lake Garden is actually a very nice place to visit.  The surrounding area have a lot of interesting place to visit as well, such as the covered bird park, butterfly park, orchid garden, planetarium, museums, and of course the National Monument.

We started our journey first by one of us drove to the starting point, which is Lake Garden.  She picked me up from office where I parked my car.  Driving from KL Sentral to Lake Garden on a not so busy Saturday morning took less than 10 minutes.  Then, we proceed to walk into the garden to explore the place.  Surprisingly there were people there walking around the garden, be it tourists or local.

The picture above is a view from within the garden.  As in the picture, there are water fountains inside the garden.  It is well kept.

More view on the water fountains.

A tortoise swimming in the lake.

The garden itself is not that humongous as compare to some other garden that I've visited before.  Reaching the other side of the garden, we noticed that there's a tunnel with the gate open for entrance.  This is the first time as well I see this.

The tunnel is not a long tunnel.  Coming out from the other side of the tunnel, it will look like the above picture.  And the other side of the tunnel is...

Yes, the National Museum (Muzium Negara in Bahasa Malaysia).  And yes, I finally step my foot into the museum after living here for 15 years.  That tunnel from Lake Garden connecting to the National Museum lead us to the back of the museum.  The front gate of the museum look like the following picture.

Next to the front gate of the museum is a pedestrian bridge that will link to the other side of the Lake Garden, which is nearer to the Planetarium.  The bridge looks like the following.

So finally we decided to enter the museum to see what do they have for exhibition.  Visiting the museum is like reading my secondary school year history text book again because almost everything on display is what I've read from the text book.

Finally, we head back to KL Sentral from the museum.  There are road signs inside the compound of the museum that pointing to the path leading to KL Sentral.  It is indeed a lot more easier now as compare to my last visit 10+ years ago!

However, from within KL Sentral, there isn't any sign board that pointing the people to go to the museum side, which is quite a shame.  The sign board to the museum will only appear when reaching certain part of the path once outside the buildings surrounding KL Sentral.

So how to walk to the museum from KL Sentral?  First go towards the exit of KL Sentral where the Meridian Hotel is located.  Once come out, walk to the right and proceed to walk along the covered pedestrian walk way, which basically will walk towards the back of Meridian Hotel.  So the key is to walk to the back of Meridian Hotel.  Once behind, there will be sign board pointing to the museum and also to the Lake Garden.

So that's another rushing short trip.  My after thought:  Wow, I should go to Lake Garden for a jog in the morning before going to work...