Malaysia, October 2010, Kuala Lumpur (KL) day 1.

October 26, together with the 3 angels we made our way to KL. From the marina we took a bus to Port Dixon.

At Port Dixon we asked the price for a taxi to take us to KL. Because we were 5 and taxis are allowed to take only 4 people they were asking us first 2 times MYR 150.-, then one big taxi agreed to take us al for MYR 260.- We went for the bus option.

A first bus brought us to Seremban and another one to KL. It cost us MYR 8.- per head. We arrived around 13h00 at the Hang Tuah Bus terminal. From there we had a 15 minutes walk to the Time square hotel where the Angels had an appointment with friends of them.


We split there and made our way to Jln Changkat Bukit Bintang in the Golden Triangle and KLCC Kuala Lumpur Complex Center. We found a place for the night.

They had different rooms to different prices. They charged us a standard room to the price of a business one.

As we had to make a deposit higher than the cost of the room, next day when I claimed, it was another person at the desk pretending we had booked the right room, as pictures of these rooms at the entrance of the hotel were showing wrong. You can’t win . . .

And what is MYR 10.- for your peace in mind?

We had a late lunch and made our way to the Petronas Towers. In KL apart the buses that can explode in the middle of the traffic, they have the LRT (Light Rail Transportation) and the MRT (Mass Rapid Transit).

The MRT is made of a solid concrete rail supporting the train. It’s very quite, sits in the air, not spoiling too much the landscape, what is landscape in a city?

The MRT brought us to Bukit Nanas, and from there we walked up Jln Ampang to the Petrons Twin Towers.

On the way up as I was picturing Pui suddenly a UFO appeared over her. . . What to do?

No panic!



It’s the Menara Lualumpur Tower. It was opened to the public in May 1996. For MYR 20.- each you can take the elevator who brings you to the observation deck to have the sight over the city from a height of 288m. This communication tower is 461 m high, the fifth highest in the world.

As you walk on the street, you start to see the PTT, reflecting in the glassed building. When finally you stay in front of them it severely kinks your neck.

These towers are huge!

The Kuala Lumpur City Center (KLCC) development is spread out on a 40 hectare site. It is a well integrated and complete city center in its own right, where people can work, live, visit, shop and enjoy leisure cultural activities in a convenient and pleasant environment.

KLCC thrives with all the characteristics of a city within a city, they say. . .

The towers are 452m high, each building has 88 storeys. The sky bridge is located at levels 41 and 42, is 59m long and 170m above street level.

The 20 hectare Park surrounding the buildings is a unique work of art which has been designed to showcase a heritage of tropical greenery by integrating human’s creation with nature and offers a calm and harmonious environment in the middle of a busy and dynamic city, they say. . .

We walked around and inside the building. You can buy the towers made out of LEGO’S.

In the late afternoon me made our way back to the hotel and went out for dinner. I was looking for an appetizer and we found a bar serving 75 different whiskeys.

I asked the waiter if they had others drinks to offer. He gave me the carte were I found an absinthe called “La Clandestine” coming from Couvet in the state of Neuchâtel in Switzerland to order.

Absinthe was long time prohibited and largely produced in the “Val de Travers”, because you could get mad from drinking it (see Van Gogh).

Today they could find out witch element is causing the madness and suppressed the plant involved from the recipe and its legal today to buy and drink it.

But, the illegal one is still produced because his taste is not the same regarding the connoisseurs.

I asked for a fork, a piece of sugar and fresh water to show them how we make the drink. You want to know?

Ok! You put the fork (originally they have a special teaspoon with holes in it) over the glass filled with the absinthe, you put the piece of sugar over the fork and you poor slowly the water to dissolve it. Ones the sugar disappeared the drink is ready. Santé!