Kampung Pasir Salak is both a sleepy riverside village and the birthplace of Malay nationalism, a site steeped in symbology and patriotic myth-making. This was where James WW Birch, the first British Resident of Perak, was speared to death in 1875 while taking a bath. The event is memorialized in the Kompleks Sejarah Pasir Salak museum.
