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Overview

A skyline punctuated by minarets, Mogul-style domes and skyscrapers; colorful, food-stall-lined streets shaded by a leafy canopy of banyan trees – this is Kuala Lumpur.

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  • Petronas Towers

    Petronas Towers

    Kuala Lumpur

    Resembling twin silver rockets, the Petronas Towers are the perfect allegory for the meteoric rise of the city from tin-mining shanty town to 21st-century…

  • No sunrise this morning as it was pretty cloudy on the horizon but this picture taken during blue hour was sufficient enough. Worth it to walk from Medan Tuanku to LRT Kg Baru to come here early in the morning :)

    KLCC Park

    Kuala Lumpur

    At the heart of the mammoth KLCC development, this excellent park offers a 1.3km soft-surface jogging track, a great children's playground and paddling…

  • ILHAM

    ILHAM

    Kuala Lumpur

    Housed in a 60-storey tower designed by British architects Foster and Partners, this impressive art gallery presents exhibitions spanning various media…

  • National Visual Arts Gallery

    National Visual Arts Gallery

    Kuala Lumpur

    The artworks on display at the NVAG are worth a trip out of central KL for their inventiveness and sheer scale. In rotating exhibitions by regional…

  • KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA - SEPT 11: A shopper at a durian fruit stall on September 11, 2011 in Bazaar Baru Chow Kit, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Durian is revered in Southeast Asia as the King of Fruits.; Shutterstock ID 84916264; Your name (First / Last): Lauren Gillmore; GL account no.: 56530; Netsuite department name: Online-Design; Full Product or Project name including edition: 65050/ Online Design /LaurenGillmore/POI

    Bazaar Baru Chow Kit

    Kuala Lumpur

    This daily wet market, serving the working class of Chow Kit, packs a heady, chaotic atmosphere. It sprawls across several blocks including new sheds, old…

  • Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Kampung Baru, traditional malay house,

    Kampung Baru Gateway

    Kuala Lumpur

    A modern concrete and blue glass gateway marks the entry to this neighbourhood of traditional Malay wooden houses. Gazetted by the British in 1899,…

  • Badan Warisan restored traditional Malay house built on stilts.

    Badan Warisan Malaysia

    Kuala Lumpur

    This heritage preservation society has its head office in a 1920s colonial bungalow. The building, once part of a neighbourhood of British officers'…

  • Ruang Pemula

    Ruang Pemula

    Kuala Lumpur

    Pakhruddin Sulaiman and his wife, Fatimah, have been amassing one of Malaysia's top private art collections since around 1996, when they bought two major…

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