Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur just like Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Singapore is a very big city that serves as a major financial hub in Asia and the world. While it is a city that is spread out geographically and has a population of almost 2 million in the city and the greater area about 7 million.
To see this city by night is amazing, as the Petronas Twin Towers (seen in the daytime below) are amazing lit up as are the other buildings in this area which is surrounded by the convention center and a beautiful park
The sunrise here is just as good as the sunsets…..
Its iconic symbol is the Petronas Twin Towers that was once the tallest structure in the world and towers above the other buildings although there is some skyscrapers that will catch up to it when they are completed….
As the city is pretty spread out, the best way to do it would be the hop on/hop off bus which takes you around the city and you can hop on and off at your leisure. I took the China Town and Central Market stop, the Botanical Gardens, and the Petronas Twiin Towers stop. This is a good way to see the city and how everything changes depending which districts that you go into. The big buildings are even more amazing when you are under them then looking at them from a distance and China Town is….well a China Town…
A stop at the bird sanctuary in the Botanical Gardens proved to have many beautiful birds such as ibis, and pelicans among others….
And of course as we left to get on the bus some monkeys were there to greet us. There will always be monkeys…
Batu Caves is one of the most popular Hindu shrines outside of India, and is dedicated to Lord Murugan, who is one of the Hindu deities. It is a huge limestone cave with three main caves and a few smaller ones. People come from all over to give offerings and be blessed as there was a lot of colorful people in there and many priests at the small shrines in different places. Very beautiful place…
And of course to send us off on our merry way was monkeys on the stair hike up and also in the cave as they were not the most aggressive monkeys we have met this trip, but they were very hungry and loved to try to find food….one in particular looked like he had been in several fights as he was missing part of his upper lip…..
