After the official conference program was over for today, I decided to first go to Kuala Lumpur’s City Center (short: “KLCC”) and visit the Petronas Towers.
Petronas is Malaysia’s biggest oil company and so are the towers.
Inside you find an gigantic shopping mall.
And even “Aunt Annie” came over from the US to sell her pretzels here as well. Welcome back to the Fast Food Nation Tour.
The area around the towers includes a nice and spacious park which is colorfully illuminated after sunset.
Naive as I am I had thought that I could walk from the Petronas Towers to China Town, the next sight on my list. On the way there I got into a conversation with a couple from Germany. They told me that the walk there would go along big streets and take about an hours. Instead, I joined them for a drink in a bar next to there hostel.
Since taxi rides are extremely cheap compared to German standards, I took a taxi to Chinatown.
It turned out to be another shopping mall, but this time featuring more Rolex and the like.
Despite the fact that is was already after 10pm, the place was very busy.
After stumbeling through the booths selling fake sport shoes and t-shirts I finally got another taxi which drove me the approx. 10 km back to the hotel. Price: around 3 Euros.
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