In 1857, a rabble of 80 plus Chinese tin miners stumbled ashore into a muddy swamp at the meeting point of the Gombak and the Klang rivers.After throwing up a makeshift village, the town quickly became a mining boomtown, exporting tin to England and America, who were at the forefront of the Industrial Revolution. Just over a century and a half later this 'muddy confluence', or Kuala Lumpur in Malay, has emerged as one of the most progressive cities in South East Asia, a bustling metropolis striding confidently into the twenty-first century.