Like any other recreational park, this place provides visitors with sport facilities. You can play basketball with your team at court, play sepak takraw with other teammates, play badminton, jogging or strolling at a special pavement, and do some nice serves at volleyball court. Even if you want to fly your kite but are not willing to go to Pasir Gudang kite hotspot, you may do it here, as they provide an open wide area for visitors to do so.

For kids, they might enjoy playing in the big playground with numbers of swing, sliding board and climbing boulders. Not only kids, I think adults will be excited too!

What makes this place more unique is that, we could see different traditional architecture through traditional houses that being built and displayed around the area. People may see the details works on woods and crafting that embraced this classic piece of art. At the same time, these houses are all surrounded by spectacular landscape that makes it so perfect for wedding photo shoot and such.

Last but not least, apart from its 23.89 hectares wide area, 6.07 hectares are restricted for planting and trees including herbs plantation. Not to forget a big lake at the middle of the park. Indeed, Hutan Bandar Mutiara Rini is another cool urban-forest recreational park to visit.

See the location map to Hutan Bandar Mutiara Rini here. Just click on the ‘+’ sign on the top left of the map to zoom in to the exact location.

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Among the team that will be here for the tournament are China, the power-house of Asian basketball, South Koreans and Japanese, together with some Middle East countries like the Iranians and Qataris.

Ten countries have confirmed participation so far, including host Malaysia. They are China, Iran, Qatar, Taiwan, Kazakstan, Japan, India, Hong Kong and South Korea.

The top three teams from this championship will qualify for the World U-18 championship to be held in Germany in 2010.