Day three and it's the city tour with our Chinese tour guide John (that's his English name I guess, who knows what it really is) who resembles a cuddly Panda :-) He says such phrases as, "the Muslims pray five times a day and the Chinese eat 5 times a day" he says jokingly chuckling and rubbing his tummy. He calls Kuala Lumpur the big salad due to it's mix in cultures, with Malay, Chinese, Indonesian and Indians amongst the many cultures living in this city side by side.
I read in a travel guide that KL was formed on muddy unattractive land of a confluence of 2 rivers where Kuala Lumpur gets it's name from meaning 'Muddy Rivers' founded by the Chinese, in their search of tin and later trading posts were set up with the British taking it over, as part of the Great British Empire installing the most important of necessities , such as a cricket pitch.
First stop on the city tour was a Chinese Temple, with it's bright yellow hanging paper lanterns, pond full of terrapins, a garden with animal sculptures of all the Chinese new year and numerous statue's the worship...the most popular being the one associated with the seas.
Next stop was to go to KL's war memorial. It's a wonderful peaceful place situated on the top of a hill amongst government building's with fountains everywhere. There's a tall column commemorating those involved in the 2nd world war with a pavilion behind that has badges on the roof associated to all the different battalions. At the centre of a deep blue mosaicked pool is a gigantic bronze sculpture of Malaysian soldiers surrounded by bubbling fountains.
From the war memorial John drove us through a tropical park, which houses the largest covered bird park in the world, as well as Orchid Garden's before stopping off at the Colonial Square, which was the heart of British Kuala Lumpur. Red and white bricked colonial architecture lines one side of the road with a cricket pavilion on the other side of a cricket pitch and at the far end is the worlds tallest flagpole at 100 metres high and the old colonial train station...all surrounded by ever towering sky scrapers. Moving through the busy afternoon traffic we got to the Indian quarter, which is full of narrow roads with street stools selling all manner of items. The centre piece of the Indian quarter is a ornate Hindu Temple bustling with people and surrounded by flower stands. John continued to say more things about the city, whilst weaving amongst the traffic before taking us to a silly craft shop and then to the final destination of the golden triangle.
The golden triangle is made up of 3 large shopping centres with Imbi Plaza being the oldest full of lots of computer shops, which you can easily get lost in. Low Yat Plaza has many floors and has a very Chinese feel about it with the smell of foods wafting through the air and little mobile phone stands, big clothes and record stores and web cafe's.
I read in a travel guide that KL was formed on muddy unattractive land of a confluence of 2 rivers where Kuala Lumpur gets it's name from meaning 'Muddy Rivers' founded by the Chinese, in their search of tin and later trading posts were set up with the British taking it over, as part of the Great British Empire installing the most important of necessities , such as a cricket pitch.
First stop on the city tour was a Chinese Temple, with it's bright yellow hanging paper lanterns, pond full of terrapins, a garden with animal sculptures of all the Chinese new year and numerous statue's the worship...the most popular being the one associated with the seas.
Next stop was to go to KL's war memorial. It's a wonderful peaceful place situated on the top of a hill amongst government building's with fountains everywhere. There's a tall column commemorating those involved in the 2nd world war with a pavilion behind that has badges on the roof associated to all the different battalions. At the centre of a deep blue mosaicked pool is a gigantic bronze sculpture of Malaysian soldiers surrounded by bubbling fountains.
From the war memorial John drove us through a tropical park, which houses the largest covered bird park in the world, as well as Orchid Garden's before stopping off at the Colonial Square, which was the heart of British Kuala Lumpur. Red and white bricked colonial architecture lines one side of the road with a cricket pavilion on the other side of a cricket pitch and at the far end is the worlds tallest flagpole at 100 metres high and the old colonial train station...all surrounded by ever towering sky scrapers. Moving through the busy afternoon traffic we got to the Indian quarter, which is full of narrow roads with street stools selling all manner of items. The centre piece of the Indian quarter is a ornate Hindu Temple bustling with people and surrounded by flower stands. John continued to say more things about the city, whilst weaving amongst the traffic before taking us to a silly craft shop and then to the final destination of the golden triangle.
The golden triangle is made up of 3 large shopping centres with Imbi Plaza being the oldest full of lots of computer shops, which you can easily get lost in. Low Yat Plaza has many floors and has a very Chinese feel about it with the smell of foods wafting through the air and little mobile phone stands, big clothes and record stores and web cafe's.
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