Month: July 2018

Kuala Lumpur Top Sites and How Many Nights

You could see the top sights in Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur in less than 24 hours. We had four nights here. This worked out fine for us because our friend was meeting us here to travel through Cambodia and Vietnam together. The flights worked better and were cheaper for her to meet us here. Free Perks It also worked out well for us because we were able to use my Fourth Night Free perk from my Citi Prestige card. This card has given us the most bang-for-buck benefits and privileges out of all the many credit cards we have had....

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Sampling Creative Street Food at Jalan Alor Market in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

The Jalan Alor food street in KL is a great place to go for lively nighttime eats. But yes, everyone else thinks so too. You will gawk at the unique eats shoulder to shoulder with strangers, and it’s an uphill battle each way to get from one end of the street to the other. There are things to eat representing most of SE Asia and plenty of unique sweet bites too. We did a full sweep before deciding what we wanted to try. We ended up starting with Dragons Breath, which we had seen at the Geylang Sarai market...

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Visiting The Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur

Petronas Twin Towers Standing at 452 meters the Petronas Towers were once the tallest buildings in the world. It’s hard to tell when looking at them, but the footprint of each of the towers is based on Islamic geometric forms and create an eight pointed star. Getting to see them first-hand was an incredible experience. They are so tall that they could almost touch the heavens. I remember seeing the Petronas Towers in the Hollywood blockbuster movie Entrapment starring Sean Connery and Catherine Zeta-Jones. The architecture was so cool and made me want to go there. I imagined playing a...

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Batu Caves and the Dark Cave in Kuala Lumpur

Batu Caves: Hindu religious sight in natural caves These limestone caves house a Hindu temple and shrines. Outside is a very large statue (the largest statue in Malaysia) of the Hindu deity Lord Murugan, painted in gold and standing at 42.7 meters or 140 feet high. Spread the Aloha by Lending a Hand When you visit the caves, why not lend a hand, and help carry some buckets of sand up for the work that is in progress in the caves. Of course, you will be carrying them along with yourself up 272 steps. Ryan and I hike often,...

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