Kuala Lumpur

malaysia

A 5 hour took us to into Malaysia’s capital city, Kuala Lumpur, otherwise known as KL. KL is a bustling Asian City packed with markets, restaurants, skyscrapers and hawker food stalls. The population is made up of mainly Chinese and Indian people and the areas in the city focus around the different cultures within it. Most of our time was spent within the popular areas of ChinaTown, Little India and The Golden Triangle.

China Town
China Town was the closest area to our hostel The Reggae Mansion, probably the most up market hostel we have ever stayed in and a stark contrast to our 1st nights accommodation at The Tropical Guesthouse. The Reggae Mansion has a rooftop bar, restaurant, cinema room, free wifi, air con everything you would want in a good hotel- backpacking has definitely advanced since our 1st time in 2004. China towns main focus is the market selling knock-off goods and a wide choice of street food.

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Nighttime view of the Manara & Patronas Towers from the roof top of The Reggae Mansion.

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China Town/Bukit Bintang hawker food stalls.

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You haven’t been to Asia if you haven’t shopped at an Asian market – everything from knock off Ray Ban sunglasses to Chinese medicine.

Little India
Little India is smaller and not so touristy… This area is filled with shops selling jewellery, silks and saris and home to one of the best restaurants we’ve eaten at Saravanaa Bhavan, an Indian restaurant that specialises in vegetarian food. Our dish was the banana leaf curry made up of rice, 2 veg currys, kootu, pachavi, sambar, rasam, kuzhambu, butter milk, appalam, butter chilli and pickle.

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Banana Leaf Curry Set, Saravanaa Bhaven, Kuala Lumpur.

The Menara Tower, Kuala Lumpur
To get views of the city we decided to go to the roof pod of of KL’s tallest tower Menara KL (421m), this gave us some great views of the city and Petronas towers (the twin towers).

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View from the Menara KL Tower.

3 thoughts on “Kuala Lumpur

  1. Rachel

    Your mum received her present today and loves it , also thanks for the tiger balm Will read your blog tomorrow hope your really enjoying yourselves

    See you soon

    Dad

    Sent from my iPhone

    Best regards

    Dennis morgan

  2. Hi Rachel & George,

    It was fantastic to meet you the other evening in Jogja and to swap notes. Thanks for your tips on KL (and Nepal – though that is going to have to wait for a later trip).

    Enjoy the rest of your time in Indonesia – we thought it was a fantastic country.

    Good luck and safe travelling.

    Janet & Dave

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