Malaysia: Kuala Lumpur

From Singapore, we took a bus back to Malaysia for our last stop on our 2 week trip, the capital city Kuala Lumpur (otherwise known as KL). The bus took about 6 hours and had really nice views of Malaysia's countryside.

We were surprised to see fields of palm trees that seemed to go on forever.

We also drove past some tree-covered mountains and a lot of undeveloped land.

Kuala Lumpur is such a unique city and had a much different feel than Singapore. Whereas Singapore is very clean, efficient, built up and very oriented towards Westerners, KL is still developing in some parts and has more of a mix of old and new with a strong Muslim influence. Although it's very busy and there's a lot of people hawking their goods, it has a really nice vibe and feels very safe.

Taking in the new sights of KL.

Down the street from our hostel was a river that ran through part of the city.

We loved the multi-colored buildings that lined the streets!

It was such a different experience being in a Muslim country.

The Petronas Twin Towers are the most famous site in Malaysia and are the tallest twin buildings in the world, each having 88 floors. Unfortunately public access to inside the Petronas Towers themselves was very limited, a line forms as early as 6:30am to acquire tickets to the Skybridge - which were still limited to only 30 tickets a day! So we only viewed the towers from the outside.

At the base of the Petronas Towers was a huge high-end mall that we walked around for a while to escape the heat.

We had root beer floats at A&W in the mall...mmmm, so good!

A view of the KL Tower.

The train station that was built in 1892. It had beautiful architecture!

Across the street was another beautiful building.

We also visited the National Mosque. We were actually more impressed with the train station's architecture than the Mosque's.

To go inside the National Mosque, we had to wear robes to cover up!

This is where people pray inside the mosque.

Frank in the mosque.

Melissa inside the mosque's courtyard.

We were surprised how simple it was, with no statues or pictures, etc. We were the only ones at there...kind of weird.

On the basement level of the mosque, was a school. It was so interesting watching these young children who were covered from head to toe.

More cool architecture. Nothing felt Asian at all, which was a nice change.

Merdeka Square

Sultan Abdul Samad Building

Back to Korea

After 2 weeks of traveling throughout Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Singapore, we headed back to South Korea to start a new job. Our trip was amazing and such a learning experience for us!