September 5, 2009
After breakfast Nic had one more session playing in the kid's pool (alone again). We checked out just after noon and stopped by the Lukut Fort and Museum. The museum housed exhibits from the tin mining days of Lukut. Apparently a young Yap Ah Loy worked here as a cook in the tin mines before he found fortune in Kuala Lumpur.
Nic and I trudged up the steps to the site of the fort while mom waited at the foot. My, my she managed to walk all the way up and back down.
The fort was built in 1847 by Raja Jumaat. Not much remains of Lukut fort today just part of the wall and two wells but did you know that Lukut in 1860 (it was a Selangor town until separation from Selangor in 1878) was more advanced than Selangor?
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