Let´s go shopping

This isn´t a very good picture, but I couldn´t resist showing it to you; look closely and you´ll see that it´s a roller coaster. It´s running inside a shopping mall. That´s how big the shopping malls are in KL.... This picture is from Berjaya Times Square, a gigantic mall with 900 shops, a cineplex with Southeast Asia´s largest cinema and movie screen, and a huge indoor theme park of 133,000 square feet called Cosmos World. All in one building. 

Monorail

One of the many means of transportation in Kuala Lumpur; the Monorail.

Sultan Abdul Samad Building

The Sultan Abdul Samad Building, the first moghul-style structure built in Kuala Lumpur, which was officially opened in 1897 as the Supreme Court. Today, it´s housing the High Court and is the centerpiece of KL´s historic district.

Old and new, side by side...

In this picture you can see both one of the minarets of the beautiful Jamek Mosque, built 1909, and the Kuala Lumpur Tower, the second tallest building in KL, built 1995.

Petronas at night....

Quite impressive, I must say... We felt really small, looking up on the 452 meter tall building from the ground...

Petronas Twin Towers

The Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur are the world´s tallest pair of buildings at 452 metre (1,480 ft). Between 1996 and 2003 it was the world´s tallest building, until the Taipei 101 Tower topped it by 56 meters (190 ft). The towers were designed by Cesar Pelli and Associates, and the cost for the whole project was USD 1,2 billion.

A weekend in Kuala Lumpur

The weekend trip to Kuala Lumpur was great in every way. It was of course lovely to see my beloved husband Janne again, and get the opportunity to spend some time together. KL is a modern, clean, well-organized city which made me, a Phnom Penh citizen, feel like "the hillbilly cousin" on a visit (which I was, I guess). With numerous impressive shopping malls, multi laned highways and modern buildings side by side with old colonial and islamic architectural wonders and with a multi ethnic population, Kuala Lumpur comes across as both outwardly cosmopolitan and very Asian at the same time. Although, I must say that I kind of missed the "chaos" and "unpredictability" of Cambodia. One of the highlights for the two of us who has a big interest in architecture, was the many interesting buildings to admire.

More photos will follow, but as there seems to be a problem with publishing all of them in the same posting, you´ll find them one by one or in pairs, above.