Its all about the show baby – Look at those skylines incredible skyscrapers and the jewel in K.L.’s crown the famous Petronas towers. The Petronas Towers, also known as the Petronas Twin Towers, are twin skyscrapers. They were the tallest buildings in the world from 1998 to 2004 and remain the tallest twin towers in the world. standing at 88 floors high 375 m (1,230 ft). It hurt your neck to look up at it !!
We thought the towers were stunning buildings – The whole landscape seemed as if it was from the future. They were inspired by architects Pelli’s vision of glittering diamonds in the sun, He incorporated Islamic art motifs into the building’s design, giving them their distinct eight-pointed star floor base. In Islam, Malaysia’s national religion, the overlapping squares forming the star symbolize unity within unity, signifying stability and harmony through rational and equal lines. Gorgeous.
Around the towers is a beautiful litter-free green park (unlike the rest of the city!) complete with splash park for kiddies, fountains and trees make for a cool hangout in the searing temps. So many happy groups of folk lunching and chatting. Such a well designed (almost too well designed felt kinda of fake) urban environment.
This is the wealthy area. Only luxury cars drive in this neighbourhood – scores of glamourous people in designer gear. We had great fun going into the huge mall and seeing every famous luxury brand store there is – Gucci Tiffany De Beers on and on glittering luxury goods – some of the stores only seemed to let one person or couple in at a time so there were line ups – we just peered through the windows – OMG $100,000 for a watch? it looked so plain too !!
We, however were NOT staying in this fancy area and other than this area most of the other parts of KL we saw were pretty grubby and polluted. The River of Life as it is called was suffering a chemical spill and was full of thousands of dead fish. 🙁
Our hotel was located Brickfields or little India. It was a vibrant area with many food stalls selling fragrant Indian food, some which were open 24 hours. We had Roti Canai for breakfast and Nasi Kandar for dinner seated on plastic chairs sharing tables with the locals – It was hard to order as we had no idea what everything was – and I can get a bit squeamish with the meat. So we had to point and hope! I don’t know what we ate!’
And now for something completely different a rainforest canopy walk in the middle of the city and it was free! – We took a grab it was sooooo hot and very humid normally happy to walk everywhere but not today. Taman Eko -Rimba Kuala Lumpur or forest eco walk haha was an osasis in such a busy city – it even offered campsites too. we were here for the canopy walk.
Other lovely green spots we found the botanical gardens and bird park – we sat in the gardens for a steamy few hours near the toilet as Lance has had bad tummy for 4 days!
Batu Caves
Rising almost 100 m above the ground, the Batu Caves temple complex consists of three main caves and a few smaller ones. The biggest, referred to as Cathedral Cave or Temple Cave, has a very high ceiling and features ornate Hindu shrines. To reach it, visitors we had to climb a steep flight of 272 steps.
A 42.7-metre (140 ft) high statue of Lord Murugan was unveiled in January 2006, having taken 3 years to construct. It is the tallest Lord Murugan statue in the world.
The Ramayana Cave is situated to the extreme left as one faces the sheer wall of the hill. On the way to the Ramayana Cave, there is a 15 m (50 ft) tall statue of Hanuman and a temple dedicated to Lord Hanuman, devotee and aide of Lord Rama. The Ramayana Cave depicts the story of Rama in a chronicle manner along the irregular walls of the cave.
Crazy huge brightly painted statues. And a sweet little girl learning the stories with her mum and dad. Everyone dressed so beautifully to come to the temple.
