Tasik Chini was not only once famed for its lotus blooms but was also the setting for the tale involving the fearsome Naga Seri Gumum.

However, for the locals, it is not the mythical dragon that they fear but the rusting mechanical hulks which reside in abandoned mines at the edges of the freshwater lake.

It has been two years since the Pahang royal household decreed that mining activities in the second-largest natural lake in Peninsular Malaysia - cease due to concerns over the environment.