The raked mast
Cables hung from a single boldly angled mast.
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A cable-stayed bridge that from a distance looks like a tilted sail or a futuristic ship crossing the lake, one of Putrajaya's best-known and most photographed symbols. Opened in the early 2000s, its cables hang from a single mast raked at a bold angle, so the bridge looks weightless over the water. The finest view is at night, when the bridge is lit in changing colours that reflect in the lake, and many people come specially to photograph it after dark. You can also see it from the lake cruise boats. The bridge is open to cars and pedestrians free at all times, and you can stop for photographs on either bank. The visit is very short, fifteen minutes is enough, and not worth a separate trip from Kuala Lumpur, but it is a lovely touch on a Putrajaya outing. The best photographs are taken from the lakeside gardens, not from the bridge itself. Make it the last stop of your outing, after sunset.
Cables hung from a single boldly angled mast.
Changing colours reflected in the lake.
It looks finest from the lake cruise boats.
Across Putrajaya Lake, between Precincts 2 and 3
Millennium MonumentA soaring modern obelisk close to seventy metres tall, raised to commemorate Mal7 minutes walk
Putra Square and Perdana PutraThe broad central square at the heart of Putrajaya, laid out as a great star and12 minutes walk
Putra MosqueA pink mosque, its dome and walls clad in rose-tinted granite, standing on the e13 minutes walk4.6
Tuanku Mizan Zainal Abidin Mosque (Iron Mosque)Malaysians call it the Iron Mosque, because around seventy per cent of it is ste13 minutes walk
Moroccan Pavilion, PutrajayaA piece of Fez and Marrakesh in the middle of a tropical garden in Malaysia: a s24 minutes walkNot on its own. It is a short photo stop on a Putrajaya outing, best saved for the end after sunset.