Places to visit in Malaysia
140 places to visit in Malaysia, each with LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp of its own: Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Fort Cornwallis, Gunung Mulu National Park and more. Stand at any of them with the app open and the stamp is yours, confirmed on site, in a volume for its state or province, filed under Malaysia on your shelf.
140 travel stamps in 15 states and provinces
The best known in Malaysia
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Forest Research Institute Malaysia
A tropical rainforest planted by hand on worn-out land on the edge of Kuala Lumpur, now so mature it looks wild. Listed by UNESCO in 2024, its trails, streams and research plots show how a forest can be brought back.
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Fort Cornwallis
A star-shaped fort raised by the British East India Company in the late 18th century, at the spot where Francis Light is said to have landed. Named after Lord Cornwallis, it is the largest standing fort in Malaysia, its ramparts still lined with old cannon facing the sea.
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Gunung Mulu National Park
A World Heritage park of caves and limestone karst in the mountainous rainforest of Sarawak. Its caves, among the largest ever found, became famous through the Royal Geographical Society expedition of 1977 and 1978, which put over 100 scientists in the field.
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Kapitan Keling Mosque
A mosque founded in the early 1800s by Indian Muslim traders, on land granted to their leader Cauder Mohudeen, at the corner of Pitt Street. It was the first permanent Muslim institution in the area and still anchors the Tamil Muslim quarter of the George Town World Heritage Site.
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Kinabalu Park
Malaysia's first World Heritage Site, a park set up in 1964 around Mount Kinabalu. Its forests climb from lowland jungle to mountain scrub and hold more than 4,500 species of plants and animals, among them 326 kinds of bird.
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Lenggong Valley
A green valley of villages and limestone hills between the Bintang and Titiwangsa ranges, listed by UNESCO for its archaeology. Its caves and open sites hold traces of people living here over many thousands of years, including the skeleton known as Perak Man.
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Niah National Park
A World Heritage park in Sarawak built around the Niah Caves, one of the great archaeological sites of Southeast Asia. A plank walk through the forest leads to the Great Cave, where very old human remains were found, and on to the Painted Cave.
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Stadthuys
The red town hall the Dutch built in 1650 as the office of their governor, the centrepiece of the square known as Red Square. Under the British it served as treasury, post office and government offices, and the red clock tower stands just beside it.
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Belum-Temenggor Forest
The largest continuous forest complex in Peninsular Malaysia, running north to the Thai border, where it meets Bang Lang National Park. Belum lies to the north and Temenggor to the south, and the Royal Belum State Park sits wholly inside it.
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Taman Negara
A vast rainforest set aside in 1938 across Pahang, Kelantan and Terengganu, first called the King George V National Park. Boats run up the Tembeling River to Kuala Tahan, where trails lead into some of the oldest forest on earth.
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Tanjung Piai
The southernmost point of mainland Eurasia, a mangrove cape at the very bottom of the Malay Peninsula. Boardwalks lead through the protected wetland to the tip, where ships wait out in the strait.
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A Famosa
What remains of the fortress the Portuguese built around 1512, after the Dutch took the city and the British tore the rest down in 1811. The Porta de Santiago gateway still stands at the foot of St Paul's Hill, with the rebuilt Middelburg Bastion nearby.
Malaysia by state and province
- Kuala Lumpur22 stamps
- Sabah19 stamps
- Penang15 stamps
- Melaka13 stamps
- Sarawak12 stamps
- Perak11 stamps
- Kedah10 stamps
- Pahang8 stamps
- Johor7 stamps
- Selangor7 stamps
- Terengganu7 stamps
- Kelantan4 stamps
- Putrajaya3 stamps
- Labuan1 stamp
- Negeri Sembilan1 stamp
Collecting in Malaysia
Does LOQAH have stamps in Malaysia?
Yes. 140 places in Malaysia have LOQAH's carefully crafted stamp, among them Forest Research Institute Malaysia, Fort Cornwallis, Gunung Mulu National Park. More are added over time.
How do I collect a stamp in Malaysia?
The same way as anywhere: open LOQAH at the place and get its stamp. LOQAH checks where you are once, at that moment, and the stamp is confirmed on site, with a gold badge and the date.
How are my Malaysia stamps kept?
Each state or province you collect in gets a volume of its own, and the volumes sit together under Malaysia on your shelf.
I have been to Malaysia before. Can I add those trips?
Yes. In Earlier trips, choose Malaysia and swipe through its stamps, or import your Google Timeline: it is read on your phone and only the places it matches are added.
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