Kuala Lumpur is located at the confluence of the two rivers Klang and Gombak and translates as “muddy estuary”.
Kuala Lumpur has long been for me so far, that the very name of the town references began to haunt the imagination, in my head I had the image of a tropical country surrounded by the sea, and its capital city with countless skyscrapers, among which, as a symbol, are the famous Petronas twin towers.
From the island of Penang, where we spent almost a week had gone like this “tram”.
At noon in Kuala Lumpur is incredible heat. Took refuge in a newly built Hindu temple. It is necessary to purify, to change, in the capital still came …
Piece of India, including a cow, as an integral symbol.
In the monorail train that goes to the centre, clean, not crowded.
Flashed the suburbs with lots of greenery, and soon on the horizon loomed the unmistakable silhouette of the twin towers.
The first thing that catches the eye — a large number of skyscrapers. The average number of storeys, on vskidku — floors 30-40. High-rise buildings are close to each other, walking on the street, with his head up, and feeling like an ant.
The skyscrapers are all very different in form, it is difficult to find two exactly the same. There are some absolutely sophisticated design, sometimes I am simply amazed how such a project could calculate to a home even just standing and not collapsed, not to mention everything else!
Kuala Lumpur — the city is layered. Multi-storey roads everywhere, sometimes even the whole street can pass through the air, sandwiched with skyscrapers, and walking on it, even do not understand the road, as the road, houses and lawns along the roadsides.
And interestingly, the road always smoothly somewhere bent, very few long straights. In addition to the normal streets through the city motorway, it is in many areas are also hanging in the air, to avoid intersections.
Shopping centers and various overhead and underground passages is also very confusing, around the countless escalators, tunnels, pedestrian bridges, reaching the second floor over conventional pavement.
Themselves shopping centers arranged by type of multilevel mazes. If he had gone in such a long time then looking for a way out.
There is a station called KL Central, it is very big, seems like the airport is the main hub for the transport system. In this Central you can take any transport: metro, monorail, train, intercity bus, and even have a solid office of the national airline and the reception conveyor belt for suitcases, apparently you can take the Luggage and will take you directly to the plane.
Central connected as if in a single complex with several skyscrapers, among which are some of the best hotels — the Radisson and the MARRIOTT. Tall, with walking the deck in three layers, planted with trees and flowers. Between the skyscrapers are the same monorail, smooth winding connected to the junctions of the city.
So, lifting your head up and ofigela from size and scale, we finally reached the climax of all this ugliness.
The main symbol of Kuala Lumpur is the well — known Petronas twin towers. Truly a masterpiece of engineering, the modern wonder of the world! The tower is built of Malaysian fuel company Petronas exclusively from materials produced in Malaysia. Due to the shortage in the country is metal, they were built without steel frame — fully molded from extra-strong concrete.
88 floors, nearly a mile tall! And what is most surprising — was built in just 6 years! The towers look fantastic. You stand near and look directly up, and they seem to get the sky — why not a modern tower of Babel?
Around the towers — a large number of fountains. Nearby is a large Park with artificial ponds, the perfect lawns, the quaint trees.
And again the fountains, so what! Light and music !
Night, in the lights of the tower look and is fantastic! A feeling that they are cast from metal, although in reality only concrete and glass.
