Urban KL

This series are mostly random shots of Urban KL.

Railway track

Dayabumi Tower 

Prison

Blue blue sky, green green grass


You see the low rise complex of clusters of buildings?
those are the PUDU PRISON complex...

Pudu Prison is the largest in Malaysia and it is situated right in the MIDDLE of the city.
The brown building on the left is the asia's largest shopping mall...

Pudu prison is more than 100 years old and now it is no longer used as a prison but as a drug rehabitation centre....

Eerie place, went in for tour once... looks haunting inside...

Gelato cafe


Interesting signboard...but the gelato are not that great

Billboard WARS!!!!!


Billboard Wars at Bintang Walk

Planet Hollywood


Planet Hollywood at Bintang Walk

Bintang Walk

Bintang Walk


This is part of the Bintang Walk, the shopping street and food venue of Kuala Lumpur.

This is the place to be seen and to see people...

This street place itself and call streets like Rodeo Drive of Beverly Hills, Orchard Road of Singapore, Champ Elysees of Paris, Oxford Street of London its cousin.

It comprises of 7 huge shopping complexes and unlimited street cafe ala european.

View from Monorail Station


Those little umbrellas are from the street cafe and food joints...

The Old Dame

The Old Dame


This is THE SG WANG SHOPPING CENTRE..... or direct translation 'Money River Shopping Centre'.... it is one of the oldest shopping centre in KL and normally it is sardine-packed and there are hundreds of shops inside....a maze to be exact...

KL owe its existense to this river, the Klang River


Buildings are build around the confluence of the rivers....
and times past,

this once majestic flowing river has become a "drain"...with cement and barrier buildt to "cage" it...........to prevent flash flood

Maybank Tower, home base to malaysia's largest bank 

Sea of motorcycles 

Klang River and cluster of buildings


The meeting point of Klang River together with Gombak River is the birth place of Kuala Lumpur.

Kuala Lumpur meant MUDDY CONFLUENCE.....
It was a tin-rush town (as in gold rush town in the states) where upon discovering of tin mine, people throngs here in thousands, particularly the chinese.

Old squatter-like apartment


This apartment see the rise of KL from a muddy river town to the metropolis it is today..
it is very old and is made of half wood half brick...

Pedestrian Mall 

KL Aerial Shots

Towering above all


These shots were taken from the observation deck in the
KUALA LUMPUR TELECOMMUNICATION TOWER a.k.a KL TOWER
during my trip there with Bose and Dark Kai.

KL Tower is the only building with an observation deck in the city.
KL Tower is situated on top of a hill and it is also the 4th tallest tower in the world.

With the elevation , one can see the entire Klang Valley and beyond from here.

The view is superb and the night view is even better.

Klang River 

KL from the top


See the H-shape building down there?
It is the country's oldest missionary school....

KL and beyond 

KL Aerial View 

Zoom out view 

Asia Largest Mall

Asia largest shopping mall


The one in brown with the twin tower is the largest shopping mall in Asia.

With one hotel, a theme park,Debenhams Department Store, IMAX theatre, World's largest bookstore - BORDERS, 10 floors of unlimited shopping , it is indeed a shopping haven.

Petronas Twin Towers 

Ray of Light 

KL Station

This is the grandmother of all building in Kuala Lumpur.
This majestic building was once the train hub in the country.
Every single train will stop by this central station and every train will leave from this staion.
Train from Singapore or Thailand will stop here too.

Now this building is kind of abandoned...because a new SENTRAL STATION has been built which incorperated the subway, the electric komuter, the train and the monorail.

This station now merely served as one of the stop for the electric komuter and also as a heritage hotel.


The Facade

KL Train Station