Putrajaya is not one of the top tourist destinations in Malaysia, but I would definitely recommend visiting this artificially planned and sometimes slightly bizarre town.

Book a hotel in Putrajaya for 1 night

Admire the monumental mosques

The main tourist attractions are the two mosques standing on the shores of an artificial lake. They are surrounded by water on three sides, which only makes their monumentality stand out.

• Masjid Putra - the main tourist mosque with its pink dome and 116-metre high minaret
• The Iron Mosque - the largest mosque with a futuristic modern façade designed especially for locals

Walk along the wide boulevards with modern buildings

Putrajaya was built solely to move some of the government and administrative buildings out of Kuala Lumpur.

This is also reflected in the design of the central part of the city.

The wide oversized boulevards are surrounded by monumental buildings of ministries, courts or religious organisations.

The most interesting part is located around Putrajaya Square.

Lake cruises

The entire central part of the city is surrounded by the artificial lake Putrajaya, on which there are regular water taxi lines (we write about them in detail in the chapter Transport), as well as cruise boats with guided tours and interpretation (also in English).

The cruises are operated by Cruise Tasik and all start at the dock under the Putra Bridge just steps from the Putra Mosque.

Cruises run 7 times a day on weekdays from 10:00 to 18:45 and 9 times a day on Saturdays and Sundays (last cruise until 20:00).

The cruise always takes 45 minutes and for foreign tourists costs 75 myr.