I was a bit nervous about going to Kuala Lumpur, after other tropical capitals I've visited didn't exactly leave a great impression. I'm mainly talking about Cairo. Dirty, noisy, stinky, sexually harrassy Cairo, which I had nightmares about for a week after I finally got out of there.
It turns out KL isn't as bad as Cairo, but even with lots of green around and a cool sci-fi monorail zipping above the Frogger-style traffic, I still prefer smaller cities any day. Unless they're Kota Bharu, obviously.
Kuala Lumpur
Compulsory shot of me at Petronas Twin Towers
Once the world's tallest building, until they built this bastard
KL Tower and the Golden Triangle.
Stop sniggering at the back, Timkins!
Stop sniggering at the back, Timkins!
National Art Gallery and Lake Titiwangsa.
Timkins, I'm warning you!
Kuala Lumpur railway station.
Shows Crewe station up a bit, doesn't it?
Platform 3 exists ever so slightly in the future of Platform 2
Thought you could escape the congestion by taking the train?
Well you're wrong and you're a grotesquely ugly freak
Well you're wrong and you're a grotesquely ugly freak
Independence square (Dataran Merdeka): a claustrophobe's delight
Hey, let's go shopping! Let's go shopping, in the same shops you get everywhere in the world.
Have you been shopping? WHAT?? You went to KL and you didn't go shopping???
Have you been shopping? WHAT?? You went to KL and you didn't go shopping???
Let me tell you something about shopping: SOD SHOPPING
Taman Tasik Perdana
(Perdana Lake Garden)
If the bustle of the metropolis gets too overwhelming, you don't have to flee the city altogether - you can head to this pocket of tranquillity instead, like a trauma victim seeking solace in the recesses of their own damaged mind.
Dave meets the Tyrannosaurus Rex at Dinosaur Park.
He is twenty-five years old
Dave at the real Stonehenge, honestly.
'Tis a magic place where the moon doth rise with a dragon's face
National Monument.
Yeeeeeah, waaaaaaaarrrrrrrrr!
National Mosque: pointy
KTM building: photogenic, but impossible to photograph from a decent angle
KL drivers don't even stop for humans - what chance do the macaques have?
