Kuala Lumpur

On to Kuala Lumpur...unfortunately looks like there are lots of nice buildings and areas which have become masked by ugliness. Some of the architecture is fantastic, and the parks and gardens are beautiful, but that doesn't seem immediately obvious. High rise buildings, huge motorways and dirty streets are more noticeable. Merdeka Square was nice - old city hall and tudor style houses on either side, with an enormous flag pole at one end.




Lake Park Gardens was gorgeous - several trails went round a really well kept lake & garden area. We walked through a sculpture garden to the national monument and parliament house, then via the planetarium to the orchid garden (the aviary looked really good but it was kind of expensive). Getting out of the downtown was definitely worth it :) National mosque and Islamic Arts Museum were also impressive buildings.




In the evening we walked to the Petronas Twin Towers - great time of day to see them, they were pretty cool! Inside is a 6-story [extremely] western shopping mall, the air-conditioning was worth the trip. We watched a really late showing of "The Chronicles of Narnya" - really enjoyed it, although parts of it were pretty cheesy. The scenery, obviously, was amazing (set in NZ).




After meeting the agressive monkeys at Botanical Gardens in Penang, Mike & I thought we should learn some of the dominant traits.