Place for transit, for sleeping,
for food, for knowing my fourth blood's culture. A place where Chinese, Indian
and Melayu culture mixed up. A place where we can see fusion of cultures and
religions. A modern city with the iconic giant skyscraper, The Twin Towers. It
was good to see, to hear and to feel the atmosphere of the city. Meet with Indonesian
duo-solo (once with his friend for Laos and Thai, then becoming solo in a day
in KL) traveler, Muchlis. With Muchlis, I spent a whole day to see Batu Caves,
KL surroundings, Twin Towers, and KLCC Suria with its color light fountain. Let me show you a bit of KL.. (describe yourself about the city from the pics because I didn't write much, but I think that is enough)
Note: as my English not so good, thanking you in advance for your understanding..
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Petronas Twin Towers
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Batu Caves
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Suria KLCC Fountain
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Atmosphere of the city
The atmosphere of the city is
very similar with my hometown, Jakarta. Only a few differences, such as the
road, the transportation, the facilities. I think KL is more modern than
Jakarta, but still I love Jakarta anyway. Transportation here so good, many directions and you can ask everybody if you get confused. People mixed up in KL; tourists,
locals, foreign workers, men, women, children. The city is quite busy, crowded
and rush. I rent a locker in KL Sentral to put my backpack, so I didn’t need to
bring the bag along with me (because it’s quite heavy). For this facility, I gave two
thumbs up because it’s very helpful for travelers who spend a day only in
KL. We can find money changer agencies everywhere, so no worries if you're out of ringgits. This one, I can say this city is tourist friendly. You guys, food traveler, this city is one of culinary heavens in South East Asia. You can found the Malaysian authentic food, Western food, fusion food (majority with Middle East), Indian and also Chinese food. You like non halal food, just go to china town or find non halal resto. You have to eat something halal, you can find everywhere. I learned also some Melayu vocab, which is a bit awkward if I compare with my mother tongue Bahasa. So far, I love this city.
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Immigration lane
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KLIA Express
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Inside KLIA Express
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KL Sentral station (train platform)
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MRT
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Side by side, road and rail
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Nasi Briyani + lamb curry + ice teh tarik
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Learn Melayu here
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Breakfast at the airport
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The traffic on Sunday
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KL Tower
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Rail above
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Petronas F1 cars replica
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Write on travel journal
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Yellow bird
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The crowd
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Indonesians meet Indian kid
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Petaling Street, China Town
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(Petronas) Twin Towers
Yap, this one is the icon of
Kuala Lumpur, maybe for the country, Malaysia, also. The building that you have to take a photo with. As The Twin Towers is the biggest and tallest skyscraper in
Kuala Lumpur, we can see it from every corner. When I was in Batu Caves (about
15 km from KLCC), I can still see the building. Here, me and Muchlis took many pics with our favorite pose, jumping. Also I asked Muchlis here to write or leave something on my travel journal.
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Me at The Twin Towers
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The Twins
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The Twin's peak from Batu Caves
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JUMP..!!
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The Twins in the evening
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Muchlis take a pic when I pick one's nose!
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Batu Caves
I don’t know this one is a part
of Kuala Lumpur or not, but one thing for sure, Batu Caves is one of the most
popular touristic site in KL according travel site such as lonelyplanet.com,
tripadvisor.com, etc. Batu Caves is a limestone hill that has a series of caves
and cave temples. The cave is very very popular Hindu shrines outside India. To
get there, you can take commuter train from KL Sentral section Gombak and stop
at the end of the trip, Batu Cave station. If you come in the mid of day, it would be very hot there, no worries, you can buy cold drinks or cold fresh fruit like what I was doing.
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The pool (many fish inside)
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Let's hike
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Wefie when the sun is shining bright
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Murugan from far
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Big Hanoman statue
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This pic made someone angry *sorry
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The stairs
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Good pose buddy!
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The city view
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The statues
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The Giant Murugan
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Ask for blessing
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Second from left: the holiest one
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Praying family
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I don't know what/who is this
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1..2..3
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Me & Muchlis with Hanoman behind
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Selfie
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Pose in the cave
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Can you see how big the cave is?
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The cave's hole
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Suria KLCC
This place actually one of
biggest shopping centers in Kuala Lumpur. The location is side by side, no, I think it’s
merged with The Twin Towers. The place is similar with another shopping center,
but this one has cool backyard. What’s cool? At the backyard, we can see
dancing fountain. Wait till evening, you can see how beautiful the dancing
fountain is. Yap, when the sun goes down, the fountain will dance with songs
and the colorful lights. And FYI, you can see this show for free, all you
have to do just come to the venue.
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Suria KLCC backyard
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Inside Suria KLCC
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Fountain in the afternoon
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When the sun goes down
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Evening colors
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The color light fountain
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When people wanna see closer
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Colorful fountain
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In the end of fountain show
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Well, this city left a good impression in my heart. Alangkah seronoknya Kuala Lumpur. See you again, KL.. Where to go? Wherever it is.. (in Bahasa: Mau kemana?
Kemana aja boleh..)
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