April 16, 2008

Kuala Lumpur

My first stop on this tour of Asia is Kuala Lumpur. This is a multicultural city of Malay, Chinese and Indians.

There are many skyscrapers here, but the tallest of these is the Petronas towers. Malaysians are very proud of these massive twin towers. They are the second tallest building in the world, only Taipei 101 is taller. The CN Tower is taller... but its classed as a Tower not a building.

Which brings us to the second most famous building in KL: The KL Tower. Its the fourth tallest tower in the world, but it has the highest observation deck... even higher than the observation deck of the CN Tower.

Went to Chinatown. Petaling Street somewhat reminded me of Khao San Road in Bangkok only less crazy. Plus there was a roof overhead, which was nice when it was pouring down rain.


Petronas Towers

View from KL Tower



Some Hindu thing?


Petaling Street

on the skywalk between the towers


KL Tower in the fog.


Monorail!!!



Petronas at night



The National Mosque


Funky looking building

2 comments:

Unknown said...

Are those towers as big as the twin towers???

Andrew said...

Bigger I think...