Tin Mining Museum In Malaysia and Malay words

Problem
A tin mining museum in Malaysia? Worth a stop? Yes, why not.

Tin was used in tin cans, everything tinned in the olden days. In Singapore an area near Beauty World on the Downtown MRT train line is called Bukit Timah, or tin hill (literally hill tin).
Malay Language

The Malays say bahasa Malay, Malay language, to distinguish it from Malay people, a handy reminder that in Malay adjectives are after nouns so the adjective, Malay, comes after the noun, bahasa, language.

As you drive along, you will often see signposts with the words Jalan or Lorong meaning streets and roads and lanes.

Jalan is also journey, as the root word for a noun (a journey) and a verb (pedestrian stroll or vehicle travel).

Malay Names
If you travel from Singapore to Malaysia, as I do, you will pick up the Singapore MRT map and see station names such as Bukit Panjang and near Beauty world the bus passes Bukit Timah Community Club. Bukit Timah means tin hill, or hill where tin mining took place.

Malaysia's tin mining museum is about 7 miles from the centre of Malaysia's capital, Kuala Lumpur (KL for short). The entry cost is about 5 Malay ringgit.

The opening times are most mornings with a long gap for lunch and most afternoon Monday to Saturday. Closed Sunday and public holidays - just when I would expect most people want to visit, but that's the way it is.

Check the current opening times. They may get more or less funding and change hours.

What can you see? You'll find numerous photos on TripAdvisor.

The museum has a scale model of the entire area, several life-size depictions with life size figures, machinery, and outside are vehicles with big wheels.

Glossary
Malaysian - English
basah - wet
batu - stone
bil - bill
bukit - hill
Bukit Merah - red hill
Bukit Panjang - wide hill
Bukit Timah - tin hill
(basah) Inggeris - English (language)
jalan - (the) road
karang - coral
keluar - exit
lebar -wide
merah - red
muzium - museum
panjang - wide / long
pasir - sand
perak - silver
taman - park
tanah - land
Tanah Merah - red land
tempat - place
timah - tin

English - Bahasa Malay
bill - bil
coral - karang
exit - keluar
food - makanan
drinks - minuman
hill- bukit
land - tanah
long - panjang
museum - muzium
park - taman
red - merah
road - jalan
sand - pasir
silver - perak
stone - batu
tin - timah
university - universiti
wide - lebar

Kinta Tin Mining Museum
Lot 126026
Jalan Batu Karang
Taman
Bardar Baru 31900
Kampar Perak
Malaysia
Tel: +60 -466 2632

(NB the country code for Singapore is 65).
As you cross the border your phone will give pings and popups with offers of charges for logging onto the Malaysia phone systems.

Useful Websites
www.bandarmalaysia.my
visit-malaysia.com
singaporeair.com (Singapore Airlines)

Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer, photographer, author, speaker, teacher of languages. business trainer and workshop leader.
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Indian Restaurants in Singapore

Jewel Of India Restaurant, Singapore
On every trip to Singapore I try to go to an Indian restaurant with an Indian friend. A popular area for trying out Indian restaurants is Little India, although you will find Indian restaurants all over Singapore.

MRT to Little India
Little India is a station on the MRT (Mass Railway Transit). You can get a map of the railway system from the ticket offices at main nations, as well as looking at it on the internet on your phone if you have a connection.

The Little India station is on the blue Downtown line (stop DT12) as well as the purple North East line (stop NE7). I need a magnifying glass to see the number on the map unless I am reading in daylight by a window.

The station is huge with long underground walkways and several exits, so if you are meeting anybody or following directions make sure you know in advance which exit to take.

Little India is a large area, so you might be going to another MRT station such as Farrer Park.

We try to avoid Little India on Sunday when all the Indian workers have their day off and are brought in on buses and the pavements are crowded, often with waiting for a table at peak time in the smaller restaurants.

(See later post on Jewel of India restaurant.)

Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer.