You can't come to Kuala Lumpur without visiting the Petronas towers. If you don't like queues I think you can. We had to queue up for over 2 hours to get one of the free tickets they give out each day to visit the skybridge between the two towers on the 41st floor. Go to the KL Tower you get a much better view with no queues and its higher than the skybridge.
Eventually getting a ticket we were allocated a time of 2:30PM giving us plenty of time to continue our walking tour of the city. Today taking in the Chinese district, this included the market above which smelt worse than it looked. In one of the Taoist temples we found this rather striking dragon.
When we got our turn to visit the skybridge is was quite impressive, you get the place pretty much to yourself, only a few visitors go up at a time and being the weekend the offices were empty.
Some facts about the towers:
At 452m the towers were the tallest building in the world between 1998 and 2004
The tower has 88 stories and 76 lifts
Today in fact the Burj Dubai became the tallest building in the World. At over 800m it dwarf es the Petronas towers, relegating it to 4th place.
There is a council which is responsible for the tallest building rankings
A tall building can be ranked in one of 4 categories (Pinnacle Height/Spire height, Highest occupied floor, Roof Height, Pinnacle Height)
It all sounds a bit like the largest Buddha story.
After about a week of exploring 2 of Asia's busiest city's we set of for the beach. Langkawi is an archipelago of 99 islands, located off the West coast of the peninsular, we were staying on the largest of the islands Pulau Langkawi. After a short flight we arrived in time for the sunset.
Highlights: Arriving at the beautiful beach resort in Langkawi
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