Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley

Situated in the lush Lenggong Valley, the property includes four archaeological sites in two clusters which span close to 2 million years, one of the longest records of early man in a single locality, and the oldest outside the African continent. It features open-air and cave sites with Palaeolithic tool workshops, evidence of early technology. The number of sites found in the relatively contained area suggests the presence of a fairly large, semi-sedentary population with cultural remains from the Palaeolithic, Neolithic and Metal ages.

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The Archaeological Heritage of the Lenggong Valley are four sites related to early man outside Africa. Palaeolithic workshops and tools have been preserved, abandoned due to meteorite impact and volcanic ash. One human fossil skeleton from that period has been found – known as Perak Man.

The sites are located in two clusters around the town of Lenggong, which lies in the Malay Peninsula. They include:

• Bukit Bunuh and Kota Tampan (where also the archeological museum and field station are located)

• the limestone outcrop with the cave Gua Harimau

• the open-air workshop site at Bukit Jawa

• the limestone massif Bukit Kepala Gajah containing the caves Gua Gunung Runtuh,

Gua Teluk Kelawar and Gua Kajang 

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Melaka and George Town, Historic Cities of the Straits of Malacca

Melaka and George Town, historic cities of the Straits of Malacca have developed over 500 years of trading and cultural exchanges between East and West in the Straits of Malacca. The influences of Asia and Europe have endowed the towns with a specific multicultural heritage that is both tangible and intangible. With its government buildings, churches, squares and fortifications, Melaka demonstrates the early stages of this history originating in the 15th-century Malay sultanate and the Portuguese and Dutch periods beginning in the early 16th century. Featuring residential and commercial buildings, George Town represents the British era from the end of the 18th century. The two towns constitute a unique architectural and cultural townscape without parallel anywhere in East and Southeast Asia.

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Melaka and George Town, historic cities of the Straits of Malacca, are renowned for their multicultural heritage. These ports were located at a strategic position for the 15th - 18th century trade between Europe and Asia. Their culture and townscapes further evolved after being colonized by the Portuguese, Dutch and the British. 

In George Town, the historic city centre has been named a WHS. Melaka has two designated areas: St. Paul's Hill and the Historic Residential and Commercial Zone. The latter holds over 600 shophouses and town houses. 

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Kinabalu Park

Kinabalu Park, in the State of Sabah on the northern end of the island of Borneo, is dominated by Mount Kinabalu (4,095 m), the highest mountain between the Himalayas and New Guinea. It has a very wide range of habitats, from rich tropical lowland and hill rainforest to tropical mountain forest, sub-alpine forest and scrub on the higher elevations. It has been designated as a Centre of Plant Diversity for Southeast Asia and is exceptionally rich in species with examples of flora from the Himalayas, China, Australia, Malaysia, as well as pan-tropical flora.

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Kinabalu Park is situated in Sabah and is dominated by Mount Kinabalu, one of the highest mountains of Southeast Asia at 4,095 metres. 

Kinabalu National Park or Taman Negara Kinabalu was established as one of the first national parks of Malaysia in 1964.

This botanical site is blessed with astonishing variety of flora and fauna that ranges over 4 climate zones; from rich lowland dipterocarp forest through the montane oak, rhododendron, to the coniferous forests, to the alpine meadow plants, and to the stunted bushes of summit zone. The mountain is famous for its many carnivorous plant and orchid species, most notably Nepenthes rajah. Its is also home to a multitude of endemic animal species, including the Kinabalu Giant Red Leech and Kinabalu Giant Earthworm. 

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Gunung Mulu National Park

Important both for its high biodiversity and for its karst features, Gunung Mulu National Park, on the island of Borneo in the State of Sarawak, is the most studied tropical karst area in the world. The 52,864-ha park contains seventeen vegetation zones, exhibiting some 3,500 species of vascular plants. Its palm species are exceptionally rich, with 109 species in twenty genera noted. The park is dominated by Gunung Mulu, a 2,377 m-high sandstone pinnacle. At least 295 km of explored caves provide a spectacular sight and are home to millions of cave swiftlets and bats. The Sarawak Chamber, 600 m by 415 m and 80 m high, is the largest known cave chamber in the world.

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Gunung Mulu National Park is renowned for its biodiversity and its karst features that hold some of the largest cave systems in the world. The park lies on the island of Borneo (Sarawak state). 

Gunung Mulu National Park has the largest known natural chamber or room -Sarawak chamber, found in Gua Nasib Bagus.

Over 60 mammalian species occur: they include the common gibbon, maroon leaf monkey, grey-leaf monkey, sunbear , Malayan pangolin, bearded pig, mouse-deer, sambar deer, barking deer, Savi's pygmy shrew and several bats. Also there are over 250 bird species, including all eight of Borneo's hornbill species.

Mulu is a very inaccessible area; the only practical way of getting to and from it is by air, mainly from Miri airport. 

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