In this gallery you will find photos from a vacation in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2000. With your mousepointer over a thumbnail you will get more information. Please click the thumbnail to open the picture in a new window. All images have a size of 950x650 pixel or 100-180KB. Enjoy your holidays!
Correct: My 'vacation' in Malaysia lasted actually only for one day - eight hours to be exact. Therefore I can naturally call myself an expert on Kuala Lumpur.
How did this happen? Simple. We landed in the early morning on an abandoned airport. An air-conditioned bus shipped us into a hotel in the center of the city. Then we had an american breakfast and afterwards a small nap on a comfortable bed. And then the city tour - 3 hours. Emperor palace, parks, Petronas tower. All of that with 90 degrees and over 90% humidity. Really pleasant.
Nevertheless the city is quite nice. Maybe I can have another stop-over in a few years time. Probably on the next trip to Australia.
Actually Kuala Lumpur did serve only to check out the new Minolta Dynax 800i. That went rather well, I guess :-) What can I actually remember? Well... the Petrones Twintowers are still the highest building of the world. And in my eyes a good-looking one as well.
Otherwise? Emptiness in my brain... Although... I could attach an original quotation from the travel diary of Thomas Koester. Here is it: "impressions (women with veil, left-sided traffic, modern roads, sumptuous vegetation, hilly landscape, skyscrapers), Hotel Mayflower: Breakfast buffet, sleeping! In the afternoon: City Center with arts and crafts from all regions, Royal palace, national monument (there has only been one war in the history of the country), Sultan Abdul Samad Building - meadow with largest flag of the earth, Twin Towers at present highest building of the earth (450m)".
Now it is enough...