Kuala Lumpur 2022
Kuala LumpurMalaysia3.1516964/101.69424
After a week of work in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, it was time to move on. I took a flight to Kuala Lumpur with Vietnam Airlines and after a short, uneventful flight, I arrived at the Hot and Humid capital of Malaysia.
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After a few days at work, I ventured out into the neighbourhood of the hotel.
Relatively near the hotel was a market called Pasar Pudu, which is surrounded by some nice places to eat.
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The neighbourhood looked grim, but that's mostly because of the combination of concrete and tons of rain.
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The market itself was coming to an end, as it was the afternoon.
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What I most remembered was the smell... Meat and vegetables plus 35-degree weather is not a good combination for the nose.
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I like how you can see the internals of infrastructure in Kuala Lumpur (most of these were just open to touch)
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On my way back I crossed the printing neighbourhood. Tons of little shops with one or two printing presses running all day in the sweltering heat.
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Scattered throughout Kuala Lumpur, you can see the delivery drivers in their natural habitat. Watching TikTok on their phones while waiting for orders.
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Adjacent to this printing neighbourhood are the giant shopping malls, of which there are many in Malaysia. This one even had an indoor Theme Park, complete with a roller coaster.
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Any city immediately looks futuristic once it has a monorail.
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There's a giant building boom going on in the city center. The contrast between old and new is fascinating.
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Going somewhere on street level is a rookie mistake. It's better to use the connected maze of shopping malls to navigate the city. Why bother walking in the heat on small sidewalks, while you have air-conditioned walkways all over town.
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On the way I had some Claypot Chicken Rice, which according to the reviews would take about 1-1.5 hours to prepare once you manage to get a table.
Apparently I was there at a time when it was not busy, I had my delicious Claypot Chicken rice mere minutes after sitting down. Great, if not for the fact I had calculated that 1-hour wait into my visit time, so now I had dinner at half past four in the afternoon.
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Last time this museum was closed. This time it wasn't so I once again took a long walk to this museum in the middle of no-where.
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After a short metro ride to the closest metro station to the museum, I then wandered around the neighbourhood for a few hours first.
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The area next to the river is quite pleasant, the trick is to get off the main roads which are always clogged with traffic.
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The museum itself was a bit of a let-down, lots of exhibitions where closed and there were tons of school children wandering around, which did not make for a pleasant museum experience.
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After freshening up I visited a nearby mall for my last Malaysian dinner.
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The next day it was time to head to the dreaded KLIA-2 airport for an Air Asia flight to Chiang Mai.
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