KL and its Architecture, a dream comes true
Malaysia’s break
This time we learned the lesson, we booked a nice night bus by ourself and we reached Yangon. After a short rest we reached the airport for the second part of the trip. Around midnight we arrived in Kuala Lumpur. Remember that the fixed price to reach the city with a taxi is 60MYR (12€). Don’t take the train, faster but way more expensive! In fact after the train we have been forced to take a taxi to the hotel. Arriving I forgot about everything else and looking up I realized that I was finally going to enjoy KL and its architecture.
First time in Kuala Lumpur
After an amazing breakfast at the Concorde hotel we started to explore the city. It was my first time in KL and I wanted to stop there before going to the Philippines. I’m super happy about my decision because the city gave me a new energy that Burma drained completely.
It’s clear that it’s not a regular city in south east Asia. It’s modern, functional, extremely clean. Like a friend said, it’s a midway between Bangkok and Singapore.
KL
After an amazing breakfast at the Concorde hotel we started to explore the city. As I said it’s super clean, ordered and organized, not everywhere obviously. A multicultural city with three communities. Founded by the Chinese, that were representing the biggest part of the population till few years ago. The biggest community nowadays, the Malaysian one and the one represented by Indians. Kuala Lumpur means “muddy confluence” because it has been build as a village in the beginning on the confluence of the two rivers Gombak and Kelang.
Now it’s a modern cosmopolitan metropolis, evolving continuously, among the jungle. Obviously there’s also the battered a shabbiness of the huge cities in this part of the world. Sad public buildings, electrical cables everywhere, bad condos. So there’s the old typical KL with its markets and the ultramodern one.
Kuala Lumpur and its Architecture
Finally, after a long walk we arrived where I enjoyed KL and its architecture at its best. The Petronas Twin Towers. I’ve always dreamed to see them in real life. I’ve always been amazed by architecture in general but those tower fascinated me since I was a kid. First watching “Entrapment“, then when Sepang became the new circuit of Formula 1 and Moto gp races.
The Petronas Twin Towers are impressive. I have never seen the Twin Towers in NYC unfortunately, but even after my trip in NY, couple of months before, I’ve to say that they are better than any other building, speaking about skyscrapers.
The View
Inside there are offices and a huge mall, but most of all a lot of air-conditioning. The most useful thing to enjoy a long wait. Before to reach a friend we also took a walk around KLCC Park. Then we had a drink in the most underrated place in the area, the Traders hotel. As I always say, there’s nothing better than to explore a place with a local! It changes your stay, entirely!
The bar with the pool on the top was unexpectedly empty and quiet. Perfect chance to talk, relax and taking pictures of the Twin Towers with the beautiful sunset lights!
Around KL
Then our friend Ong brought us at Lot 10, an amazing place where to enjoy Chinese/Malaysian street food. A huge variety of choices of amazing food. It would have been impossible to find it by ourself. Then our other friend Saran took us for a nice night walk though the authentic city and gave us some nice tips! It’s amazing meeting great people around the world!
Batu Caves
If you are in KL Batu Caves are a must do in the city. Take a Grab (extremely cheap here) and enjoy the famous colored staircase. I have to admit that I thought it was way more steep than I experienced. The climb was super fast and easy but the perk was not as good as I imagined. I mean I thought it was less touristy but anyway nice and worth it. Anyway once there there’s a nice view and the funniest animal ever, a lot of monkeys. I could stay hours staring at them.
Missing KL and its amazing monkeys at Batu Caves
Publiée par Shooting Different sur Mardi 14 avril 2020
Street photography
Once back I took a walk around to discover a bit more about Kuala Lumpur. I didn’t have precise stop or aim, just a random walk wandering around. Getting a bit lost you always have the best chance to find some nice spot or interesting glimpse of urban life.
Then it was absolutely necessary to take advantage of the amazing and cheap hotel we have been able to find and chilling at the pool with a great Petronas view. The best way to forget for a while about our flight back to Italy cancelled due to the Covid_19.
Night Photography
The last night we met our amazing Japanese friend Natzukioro after meeting in Tokyo a month earlier. I saw more often her than most of my friends in Venice in the last four months! Then I wanted absolutely to take some pictures of the Petronas Towers. Since I decided to travel with a super light luggage I didn’t have a tripod but my Canon EOS R and my steady arm helped me a lot. Even with high ISO the result was great to me. Finally I had the picture of my favorite architecture ever.
Leaving KL
In the morning, learning from our mistakes, we booked a Grab for the really long way to the airport. I spent just couple of days here but I’ve been positively impressed by this city. KL and its architecture are what I’ve always dreamt to see, but I loved the city in general. Its life, the energy, many different people, cultures and food. I am sure I will come back here sooner or later. However now it’s time for Philippines.
Cheers
