KL 4 of 5: Around Town and to the Airport

KL has a Hop On/Hop Off Bus program. You buy your ticket and for 24 hours from purchase, you can get on and off the buses. They make a large loop. They do stop running at 8 pm and restart in the early morning so you can use the ticket for parts of 2 days if you time your ticket purchase correctly. We bought our tickets mid morning on the second day of our visit. Had we known how the tickets work, we might have changed our itinerary a little. It meant even though we could have used the tickets again the next day, we were flying out and didn't have time. The bus stops all had the same signage and they were numbered so it made them pretty easy to find. We even got a map! You are supposed to be able to get discount entry into some of the places on the route. We were headed to the Bird Park but the guy was already sold out of Bird Park discounted tickets. He gave us a larger map instead.

We took a taxi the first day to the Aquarium. From there we walked through a giant tunnel to the famous Petronas Twin Towers and the Suria KLCC Mall at it's base.

As I mentioned before, this structure can be seen from everywhere. The towers, along with the KL Tower, dominate the landscape. The Petronas Towers were the world's largest buildings from 1998-2004. Height is 1483 ft (452 m), 88 stories. 567 ft (170 m) on the 43rd floor.The bridge is 58.4 m long. There are 33,000 stainless steel panels and 55,000 glass panels.

The Suria KLCC Mall is a fancy, 5-story mall with mostly designer stores. We managed to find a place for lunch.

The other tall structure in KL is the KL Tower (Menara KL). It appears taller than the Petronas Twin Towers because it sits on a hill. The KL Tower height is 1381 ft (421 m) and there is a restaurant 282 meters up. In this photo you see the KL Tower in the foreground and the Petronas Towers in the distance.

A few more "around town shots" or shots on way to the airport on our last day. The airport was about 60 km from the city so it took a while. I must point out that when entering KL, we found the signage lacking in terms of where to go for customs, immigration, taxi service, etc. On the outbound leg, there was more useful signage.

One of the stops on the Hop On/Hop Off was the Palace. You can't go in the enormous compound, but a lot of people enjoy just standing outside the gate and looking in.

Here are a few of the fast food establishments that have managed their way across the globe to Malayasia.