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 25 September, 2009
Friday Forest in the City Walk at the Menara KL Tower
After our visit to the top of the Menara KL Tower, we took advantage of the included "Forest In The City" Nature Walk (at 2.30pm), which turned out to be free anyway. It was basically a guided tour of the Bukit Nanas Forest Reserve, a 9 hectare patch of lowland dipterocarp (a family of tropical rain forest trees) forest smack bang in the middle of urban Kuala Lumpur.

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There were some short nature trails that we could explore on our own and from the top of the Menara Tower, we could see that the forest wasn't that expansive. However, we thought we would get the most of it by going via the tour, which would also maximise the 45 minutes we would spend with it.

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Friday Menara KL Tower
The Menara Kuala Lumpur Tower is the fifth tallest telecommunication tower in the world. With an antenna that reaches 421 metres high, it stands atop the Bukit Nanas Forest Reserve and provided the highest view we could get of Kuala Lumpur.

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There was a short, uphill walk from street level to pass along the road that cuts through the forest reserve and up to the tower. However, to get to the tower in the first place, we took a taxi as it was close enough to our hotel. There was shuttle bus that takes people up and down though.

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Friday Kuala Lumpur Chinatown Night Market
Near what must be the coolest LRT station name, Maharajalela, is Kuala Lumpur's Chinatown. There were a few temples there, but we only visited in the evening for the night market.

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Having spent most of our year so far in Hong Kong, it was hard to make a distinction between the KL Chinatown night market and other markets in Hong Kong. I'm sure there were subtler features we overlooked but this pretty much also sold the same kind of goods amongst the food stalls.

Read more... 24 September, 2009
Thursday Indoor Theme Park at the Berjaya Times Square Shopping Centre in Kuala Lumpur
The Berjaya Times Square complex opened in October 2003 and apparently holds the accolade of being the "world's largest building ever built in a single phase", with 7.5 million square feet of built up floor area. We dropped in for a spot of window shopping as the monorail convenient stopped there at Imbi station.

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Berjaya offered shopping, luxury accommodation, business, food and entertainment with the latter consisting of Asia's largest indoor theme park, Cosmo's World.

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Thursday Arrival in Kuala Lumpur and the Railway System
Traveling from Malacca to Kuala Lumpur was a very cheap and straightforward process as we were able to turn up at Malacca's Sentral Bus Station and get tickets for RM12 (£2.15) each on the spot. Taking only two hours, it was only when we got to Kuala Lumpur that we got a little confused.

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From the coach drop off point to the nearest station, which turned out to be the Sungai Besi LRT, we simply had to cross a main road (with our luggage).

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