Kuala Lumpur travel guide

Top 10 sights in Kuala Lumpur

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   Petronas Towers

   Twin towers of four hundred and fifty-two metres finished in 1998, the tallest buildings in the world until 2004 and still the tallest pair. César Pelli laid their floor plans out on Islamic geometry, and a double-deck bridge links them at the forty-first storey.

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   Kuala Lumpur Tower

   A communications tower of four hundred and twenty-one metres opened in 1995, whose site was shifted during design to spare a century-old jelutong tree that still stands beside it. Its deck looks across at the Petronas towers, which is the better photograph.

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   Batu Caves

   Batu Caves is a Hindu shrine in limestone caverns at the top of 272 rainbow-painted steps. The forty-two-metre gilt statue of Murugan stands at the foot, macaques work the stairs, and the Thaipusam festival fills the whole hill.

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   National Mosque of Malaysia

   The national mosque, a piece of modern Islamic architecture whose folded roof reads as an open umbrella. Outside prayer times visitors are lent robes and admitted, and its pools and colonnades stay cool through the afternoon.

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   Sultan Abdul Samad Jamek Mosque

   Jamek Mosque stands at the confluence of the two rivers where Kuala Lumpur began, in a Mughal style of arcades and onion domes. Seen with the River of Life lighting at night, the origin of the city becomes legible.

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   National Museum of Malaysia

   Malaysia's national museum, opened in 1963 under a Minangkabau roof, covering the peninsula from prehistory through the Malacca sultanate and the colonial centuries to independence.

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   Independence Square

   Merdeka Square is where independence was declared, faced by the Mughal-style front of the Sultan Abdul Samad Building. It is the centre of the night-lighting walk, and the flagpole on it is among the tallest in the world.

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   Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia

   The Islamic Arts Museum holds the largest collection of Islamic art in Southeast Asia, strongest in Qur'an manuscripts and in its scale models of the great mosques. It stands beside the National Mosque and pairs with it.

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   Federal Territory Mosque

   A mosque opened in 2000 that borrows from Ottoman and Malay building in the same structure, with twenty-two domes and room for seventeen thousand worshippers. Non-Muslims are lent robes and shown round outside prayer times.

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    Kuala Lumpur Bird Park

    Eight and a half hectares of valley roofed with netting, so that the birds fly free rather than sit in cages — one of the largest walk-in aviaries anywhere. Hornbills and storks pass overhead on the path.

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   Batu Caves Murugan Statue

   A statue of the Hindu god Murugan forty-three metres high, unveiled in 2006 at the foot of the Batu Caves stair and covered in gold paint. It is the tallest statue in Malaysia and the focus of the Thaipusam pilgrimage each January.

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   Bukit Bintang

   The shopping and nightlife quarter of Kuala Lumpur, where malls run into each other by air-conditioned bridge. Jalan Alor behind them turns into an open-air food street after dark, which is the better half of the district.

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   Kuala Lumpur City Centre

   District of Kuala Lumpur built on a former racecourse. It holds the Petronas Towers, a twenty-hectare park and the city's concert hall.

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   Thean Hou Temple

   A six-tiered temple to the sea goddess Mazu, opened in the 1980s on a hill above the city and among the largest Chinese temples in Southeast Asia. Its courtyard is hung with lanterns and it is busiest at lunar new year.

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   National Monument

   A bronze group fifteen metres high, unveiled in 1966 to those killed in the Japanese occupation and the twelve-year communist insurgency that followed. It was modelled by the sculptor of the Iwo Jima memorial in Washington.

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   Petaling Street

   The market street of Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown, roofed over in 2003 and lined with stalls selling counterfeit everything. The older shops behind them still sell herbs, noodles and funeral goods.

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   Chow Kit

   A district of central Kuala Lumpur around Chow Kit Road, between Jalan Raja Laut and Jalan Tuanku Abdul Rahman. It is named after Loke Chow Kit, a mining magnate and city councillor who opened the city's first large department store, and its wet market is the biggest in the city.

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   Perdana Botanical Gardens

   Kuala Lumpur's first large public park, laid out in 1888 around a dammed lake in the colonial administrative quarter. The orchid and hibiscus gardens, the deer park and the bird park next door fill an easy morning, and the whole thing is a fifteen-minute walk from Merdeka Square.

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   Central Market

   Market hall in Kuala Lumpur of 1888, built for fish and vegetables and remodelled in Art Deco in 1937. It has sold crafts and batik since 1986.

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    National Zoo of Malaysia

    A zoo of forty-five hectares at Ulu Klang, opened in 1963 and run by a wildlife society rather than the state. It keeps Malayan tigers and sun bears, and has held giant pandas on loan from China.

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