| Templer's Park | |
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| Type | Forest reserve |
| Location | Klang Valley, Selangor, Malaysia |
| Area | 1,214 hectares |
Templer's Park is a forest reserve in the Klang Valley, Selangor, Malaysia. The park is located about 6 kilometres from Rawang and 22 kilometres from Kuala Lumpur. It is 1,214 hectares in size and it was named in honour of Sir Gerald Templer, a British High Commissioner in Malaya, in 1955.[1]
This forest reserve consists of multi-tiered waterfalls, jungle streams and trails. Several amenities are available in this forest reserve, such as picnic grounds, fishing spots, parking lots, public toilets and stalls.
Wildlife that can be spotted in Templer's Park include the park monkey, the hawk-cuckoo, the crested serpent eagle, the emerald dove, the forest wagtail, malkohas, the barbet, the woodpecker, the flycatcher-shrike, the blue-winged leafbird, the earless agamid, the Malaysian crested lizard, and various kinds of toads and snakes.[1]
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Templer's Park can be accessed from the Rawang exit of the North-South Expressway. The park can also be reached by taking the No 66 bus from Puduraya in Kuala Lumpur.[2]
In 2008, a Danish man went missing for 12 hours in Templer's Park before finding his way out of the jungle. He went missing at an altitude of 500 feet above sea level.[3]