Wednesday, March 26, 2008

Taman Mini Malaysia and Taman ASEAN



Naz nagged us all the time of the idea paying a visit to Taman Mini Malaysia and Taman Mini ASEAN. To fulfill her desire... hehehe... we did spend half of the day there.

We started off by exploring all the Malay traditional houses. The last time I came here, it was about 15 years ago... Yes.. it was really a long time ago... And that was the reason why I was really impressed of the esthetical values. I was young back then, wasn’t able to appreciate the architectural values... I don’t really know much about art but I know that in the olden days... the people were really brilliant in building houses despite of their lack of educational background.

We even had the chance of being the audiene to the Malay traditional dance show. At the end of the show, they held a ‘joget lambak’ session and pulled the audience to the dance stage. We managed to escape ourselves and proceeded with the Taman Mini ASEAN. Rumah Thailand

It seemed as if, the management only spent most of the maintenance cost on the Malaysian houses only. Mini ASEAN Park was a bit abandoned. My favourite would be Thailand House. I love the idea of having a concourse in the middle of the house and all the rooms are facing towards the centre court.

At the end of the visit, we ran out of energy but we really had a great fun. Thanks all for the great company, it was worth a visit.