On the way to the city from the airport:

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First sight of the Petronas Towers!

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Getting excited after seeing the main skyline

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Approaching the city centre

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The tall skyscrapers within the CBD


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The monorail above the road

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Bukit Bintang - the lively, vibrant, shopping, area of KL. At night it comes alive even more

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More of Bukit Bintang

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The Menara TV Tower in the back. Still in Bukit Bintang. This pic probably doesn't show the true atmosphere of the place, again, especially at night.



Through that street you reach Jalan Alor, a very big and busy food street full of large varities of delicious meals!

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The monorail the twists through the many highrises in central KL with the busy shopping street below

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Bukit Bintang monorail station

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Looking towards the famous Petronas Tower peeking through the top

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and closer...

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at Bukit Bintang station

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got off at a random station that is near the towers, good view!


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these signs are in many hotels, pretty interesting!

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the incredible food street - Jalan Alor. Once entering you are just in this mess of tables, people, waiters etc...! it's great!

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yum crab

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beans

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First stop, Menara Tower! The tallest tower in KL and it provides a wonderful 360 view of the whole KL. You can even see the Batu caves in the distance with the golden statue.

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Great view

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Petronas Towers right next to us!

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The area with many skyscrapers and business district

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Close up of Bukit Bintang. You can see the various shopping malls (eg Low Yat Plaza on the right) and the famous Jalan Alor street there

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Next stop, the Petronas Towers!!


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Another shot

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Close up

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Beautiful towers

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The park area underneath the towers also next to the Suria shopping complex. The whole area is just huge with lots of people.

There are cafes on the side, places to just sit and relax, running footpaths for excercise etc...

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Inside the Suria shopping complex underneath the Petronas Towers

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Outside again with various skyscrapers surrounding the park

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The Pavillion Mall on the right back in the Bukit Bintang district

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Back in the main street area of Bukit Bintang

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We returned outside at night time to the bustling streets of Bintang walk

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A sign showing the proximity of things around this area.


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The Bukit Bintang monorail station again at night

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Jalan Petaling - Chinatown!!

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The entrance to the narrow markets of Chinatown. It's a bit like Ladies Market in Mong Kok in Hong Kong - actually inside

the stalls it looks virtually the same. All cheap and fake wallets, watches, shirts, souvenirs etc...


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When you keep walking further back you reach the street food area which has many delicious foods.

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mmmmmm

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more Chinatown

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and final night view of the incredible towers

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can you spot it? This is back in the Bukit Bintang area

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Istana Negara (National Palace). The residence of the king is here. Your not allowed inside so many people were outside the gates taking photos with the guards and stuff.

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Lanterns of Thean Hou Temple


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Skyline in the background. Can't really tell, but that day was so hot! Also some mini Shanghai expo building was there.

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The temple again, this pic makes it look empty but there were actually quite a lot of people there with this ceremony

going on inside. Also there were some models getting photoshoots done around the temple complex.

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Before leaving:


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more KL sights





The Sultan Abdul Samad Building in Merdeka Square. Beautiful buildings but the day was so hot!

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Dense skyscrapers in the back

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The towers appear everywhere

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A building viewing from a taxi

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The back of the National Museum

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A massive depiction of Malaysian history in the front of the National Museum

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Le Meridian & Hilton hotels nearby the National Museum

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Early history in the National Museum

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This is pretty cool - an animation of the ancient trade routes of Asia

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Berjaya Times Square building from this neighbourhood I think called Imbi

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An exhibit in the National Museum - the meeting of cultures, trade and ethnicities

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Outside the Berjaya Times Square incredibly huge shopping complex

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Inside... yep it's big.

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And again

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The many birds everywhere around the Batu Caves

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The massive statue there. Unfortunately, we didn't go inside the cave as it was just a stop on the way to the Genting Highlands. Still amazing!

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Streets of KL at night


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Random shot of somewhere in KL

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We found a toilet restaurant!! This is located in the Sungei Wang plaza in Bukit Bintang district!

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The KL skyline upon leaving towards Putrajaya

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Modern buildings in Putrajaya

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The streets were very empty there, but we were told that this area is like this

as most activity is the workers go and work and leave at night. Theres not much street activity. Still, the buildings are very beautiful


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Beautiful mosque

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Close up of the mosque's entrance

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Sign on a large roundabout leaving Putrajaya

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on the way there - the whole area outside of KL seems to be just endless greenery!

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before arriving at genting, we stopped at this Chinese temple place. Upon getting out of the car,

it felt so different to in KL. It wasn't hot! It was this weird cold/misty feeling

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more of this mystical temple place

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The temple peeking out into the clouds

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Leaving the temple place and continuing uphill to Genting

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Arriving at the complex. It felt weird up there, the buildings didn't look really new but we couldn't see much anyway as the outside was so foggy!

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Inside is this massive theme park. KL has so many indoor theme parks!! (not really but it seems like it)

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More

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Different cultural shops here. Not very busy today

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Back outside, as you can see it is very foggy

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the outdoor theme park

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one of various hotels outside the place

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the colours of the building

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back down to KL!


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View of KL city

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yummy shaved ice dessert

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Beautiful architecture of Thean Hou Temple

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Skyscrapers close up

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chinatown food!

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Maybank

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Traffic jam view! we witnessed traffic jams that were still there like in midnight!

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view of skyline

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taken from in a taxi randomly


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Bukit Bintang again

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Menara KL - taken from Bintang walk

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The monorail at it's station - it's so awesome passing by office skyscrapers and twisting through the city

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The path of the monorail!

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Drool.... (this is at Jalan Alor food street)

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some apartments on the way to Batu Caves/Genting Highlands

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The lively street of Bintang Walk in Bukit Bintang!

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and again!

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I was surprised at the green-ness of the city and this is taken next to one of the monorail stations

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a monorail station looking down from the Menara KL

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Some skyscrapers from the Menara KL base

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taken from the Menara KL

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another one

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Petronas Towers!

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Berjaya Times Sqaure!

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Near the base of the towers

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Bukit Bintang

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