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Kuchai Lama skyline. Kuchai Lama, or simply Kuchai, is a suburb in Seputeh constituency in south-western Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, located near the Old Klang Road. [1] It is also known as a foreigner's paradise because of its density, which is full of foreigners who may or may not have legal documents.
The name is a variation of 'istana', meaning 'palace'. [1] It was built in 1870 by the second White Rajah , Charles Brooke , as a wedding gift to his wife, Margaret Alice Lili de Windt . [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The palace is not normally open to the public, although the landscaped gardens are, which can be reached by a boat ride across the Sarawak River.
The Potala was used as a winter palace by the Dalai Lama from that time. The Potrang Marpo ('Red Palace') was added between 1690 and 1694. [12] The new palace got its name from a hill on Cape Comorin at the southern tip of India—a rocky point sacred to the bodhisattva of compassion, who is known as Avalokitesvara, or Chenrezi.
The palace, with 374 rooms, is located 3 kilometres (1.9 mi) west of the Potala Palace, which was the winter palace. It is in the western suburb of Lhasa City on the bank of the Kyichu River . When construction of the palace was started (during the 7th Dalai Lama's period) in the 1740s, the site was a barren land, overgrown with weeds and scrub ...
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The Kuchai MRT station is a mass rapid transit (MRT) station in the suburb of Kuchai Lama in southwestern Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is one of the stations on the MRT Putrajaya Line. [1] The station was opened to the public on 16 March 2023. The station is planned as a future interchange with the upcoming MRT Circle Line of the KVMRT project. [2]
Happy Garden (Malay: Taman Gembira) is a township near Kuchai Lama, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. [1] Nearby housing areas include Taman United and Taman OUG.. Happy Garden is near Jalan Klang Lama, the Sungai Besi Expressway, the Kuala Lumpur–Seremban Expressway, New Pantai Expressway (NPE) and the KL–Putrajaya Expressway (Maju Expressway).