Sungai Lembing’s evolution from a tin-mining hub to a tourist destination

The former PCCL general manager's residence is now the Sungai Lembing Museum.

THE hamlet of Sungai Lembing, once known as the El Dorado of the East, has seen a glorious past.

The moniker suggests it was a lost city of gold but in reality, the town was the centre for one of the largest tin-mining operations in history.

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