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The Best Things To Do In Kuala Lumpur
- Kuala Lumpur
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Kuala Lumpur has a lot to offer its visitors when it comes to sights, but it is its delicious street food that KL is most famous for. KL is packed with hawker stalls that make freshly cooked dishes with lots of spices and flavors, served from mobile carts, stalls or small shops/ street restaurants or Kopitiam (which means “coffee shop” but also serve other kinds of traditional dishes and drinks). You can find food from all corners of Asia in Kuala Lumpur, as Malaysian food is influenced by its many immigrants and occupants over the years from India, China, Japan, England, Portugal, Thailand, and Indonesia. The awesome food is one of the reasons why we love KL! When it comes to sights and things do in Kuala Lumpur, the top attractions of Kuala Lumpur include historic monuments and buildings, futuristic and modern skyscrapers, colorful mosks, shrines and temples, green and lush parks and jungle areas, huge shopping malls, bustling street markets, and a lively nightlife of cool pubs and bars. The people of Kuala Lumpur are very friendly and speak excellent English. The city has a well-developed infrastructure when it comes to trains, monorail, metro and buses, which makes it easy to get to the places well worth to visit in KL. There is also a huge expat group living in KL, with many international companies having offices in the city.
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Our Visit To The Petronas Towers
- Petronas Twin Tower
- VEXIMUS
The Petronas Twin Towers were the tallest towers in the world from 1998 until 2004, when Taipei 101 in Taiwan was built. These towers remain the world’s tallest twin towers today. The Skybridge that connects the two towers is the highest two story bridge in the world. The Petronas Twin Towers are designed with a steel and glass façade resembling motifs from Islamic art, Malaysia’s primary religion.These towers are a symbol of Kuala Lumpur, along with the nearby Kuala Lumpur Tower, another icon of the city.The Petronas Twin Towers are a popular tourist attraction, receiving thousands of visitors almost everyday. Visiting the towers is a very organized event, as tourists are shown the Skybridge, the Observation Deck, and of course the infamous gift shop.Ticket sales open at 8:30 am. We purchased tickets for the first entry of the day, at 9 am, and were given blue lanyards to wear, a way of color coding visitors according to their sightseeing group. After a safety briefing from a hologram, we were herded into the hottest elevator ride ever for a trip up to the Skybridge.At the Skybridge, we had ten minutes to enjoy the views and take our photos. The Skybridge sits 170 meters off of the ground on the 41st floor of the towers. Next, we rode a second elevator up to the Observation Deck on the 86th floor. Here we had about fifteen minutes to enjoy these views. We had a 360 degree view over Kuala Lumpur on a very hazy day. My favorite view was across to tower #1.After viewing Kuala Lumpur from the Observation Deck, our group was taken back to the ground floor with a final visit to the gift shop. The entire visit took forty-five minutes.For us, this visit was an enjoyable way to get a bird’s eye view over Kuala Lumpur. We love visiting the world’s iconic towers, especially those that were the tallest in the world at some point in their existence.
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Half-Day National Museum Tour
- National Museum
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National Museum is located near the southern tip of the Lake Gardens, past the National Art Gallery. An excellent introduction to Malaysia’s history, economy, geography, arts, crafts and culture, it overlooks Jalan Damansara and was built in 1963 with its displays spread out onto three floors.The building has a sweeping, traditional Minangkabau-style roof and a main entrance flanked by two large murals of Italian glass mosaic that portray the country’s major historical events and cultural activities. A couple of years ago the National Museum underwent an extensive renovation that had an all-new gallery added to its complex.Much of the National Museum’s original collection of artworks was razed during a World War II bombing but the museum still has an extensive ethnographic and archaeological exhibit on display. Its impressive collection starts out on the ground floor with life-sized dioramas of ritual weddings, traditional Malaysian life (fishing, farming, weaving etc.) taking place in kampung settings and even one of a Malay circumcision ceremony.There is even a life-size, traditional Malacca Baba house with beautiful mahogany furniture, elaborate carpets and brass, silver and gold ornaments on the first floor. Additionally, the museum adds a hint of the prosaic to the mix with a section dedicated to the Malay art of wayang kulit – a kind of shadow wooden puppet theatre.The second floor of the National Museum sees a huge zoological section with stuffed animals – it vaguely resembles a hunting lodge. Up here is also a fairly impressive collection of weapons, including parangs (machetes), kris (daggers), swords and miniature canons. Walking down one the winding passages will lead you to a section dedicated to traditional musical instruments including the serunai (a reed with a multicoloured end), rebab (a fiddle played like a cello), rebana (drums), Kelantanese drums and Chinese gongs, lutes and flutes.The National Museum has several guided tours that take place throughout the week. It is one of the better ways to explore the museum as they are very informative and free. The English tours take place at 11:00 on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays and there is a French-language tour on Thursdays at 09:00 and 12:00. Conveniently, there is a covered walkway from the National Museum that takes visitors over the highway to the southern stretch of the Lake Gardens.
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KL Forest Eco Park: Real Rainforest
- KL Forest Eco Park
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Ihave been wanting to visit the KL Forest Eco Park for a long time (mainly for its instagram-famous treetop canopy walk). Information about the KL Forest Eco Park is quite scattered and inconsistent (some said it was closed down). So I decided to try my luck there last month and indeed it was closed due to maintenance. Fortunately I managed to speak to the maintenance officer there and he told me that it should be reopen in November.In the KLCC area, the two closest and most accessible points of green space are KLCC Park, and Bukit Nanas forest reserve.One belongs to Petronas, Malaysia's national oil company. It is located in the shadow of the iconic Petronas Twin Towers, and is a flat landscaped park with fountain shows near the Suria KLCC mall. Fireworks are shot up from here at festive occasions.The other is a permanent forest reserve in Bukit Nanas. It is the only one in the city centre, and one of the oldest in Malaysia. It is undulating, and spreads down the hill where the almost equally iconic KL Tower stands. I began my hike from the top. That morning, I decided to just wing it. Even so, I still managed to pick up all the trails easily. went along the Penarahan trail first, where I found cool twisting lianas on the ground. They look like someone trained them to grow that way! I saw this again in the Philippines, on a trail near Vigan. Looking up, at the right spot you can also see KL Tower through the gaps in the rainforest canopy.The Merawan trail goes down into what feels the most like real jungle within KL Forest Eco Park. The path slopes, but it's stabilised by turning it into retained earth steps. So it is much easier than a raw jungle trail.Back at the intersection between the two main trails of Penarahan and Jelutong, I headed for the latter one next. At an intersection, I detoured and surprisingly found myself in an open lawn area with gazebos. The footpaths in this area had concrete paving stones imprinted with rainforest leaves, together with their species names. There was an interesting hanging bridge before me, all done up in red. It seemed to rise into the woods. I wondered where it led to.I began having ambitions to hike up it to find out. With renewed motivation, I got up and approached the beginning of the bridge.And stopped. On the first span, I could see a monkey. It was a sort of black-grey, with a long tail, and was sat right in the middle. And then, I noticed the other monkeys - balanced on the cable 'banister' of the bridge.As I hesitated, some of the monkeys began to creep closer. Coming right to the very front, yet no more. Not leaving the bridge. Just staring at me.All in all, Bukit Nanas is a fairly easy half-day hike, at most. Very suitable for a quick break from a tour of the KL urban jungle.
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Malacca Travel Experience. First Impressions.
- Melaka
- YEASYTRIP
The city itself is incredibly modern, but the old town that centers around Jonker St. is a different world. Old, really, really old, and stunningly beautiful. Malacca ( AKA Melaka ) is UNESCO listed, conserved and preserved, painted, spruced and ready to impress. But I’ve got this weird feeling that I’m in a kind of historical theme park. It’s beautiful and gorgeous, but it’s SO full of tourists, so full you can barely move on the weekends, let alone find a room. The roads are littered with crazy, decorated, musical pedal rickshaws pumping Gangnam Style through pimped up sound systems. There is a Hard Rock Cafe.Jonker St. itself is a historical and architectural delight, turned gift shop.I have mixed feelings. I love it, but it’s not the sleepy old town I expected.The diversity is what gives Malaysia and Malacca it’s uniqueness. The Indian, Malay and Chinese communities live side by side with colonial history showing through. There is blending, of course, but each community retains some identity.Back at our guest house we’re woken by the call to prayer from the mosque at 5 something am, shortly followed by the gongs of the Chinese Temple directly opposite, our first day of exploration has begun.Within 2 minutes we can be in a Hindu temple dedicated to Ganesh, step inside and you really wouldn’t know you were anywhere other than India.I really love the authenticity, diversity and acceptance. Malacca is, without a doubt, my favourite part of Malaysia so far. If I had to recommend one part of Malaysia to visit, this would be it.It’s not what I expected, but that’s OK. I suppose it’s like going to Devon or Cornwall and expecting genuine fishermen to live in the fishermen’s cottages and finding tea shops instead. I think I just expected too much. Expectations are your worst enemy sometimes. We have almost a week to explore and enjoy Malacca before we head south towards Singapore for Johor Baru and Legoland, I’m looking forward to some great food while we’re here. I’ll let you know how it goes.
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