Guest Houses Kuala Lumpur

... around the world. Their mission: to navigate themselves through a series of airports, bus stations, temples, beaches, second-rate guest houses and dodgy food vendors. Toronto, Ontario, was the starting point for the first leg of the race. With ...

... we were ... it was just about coming together and making music ... great music, great people, great feeling!!!  I'd come back to Kuala Lumpur for this alone!!! It just so happened it was the Tugu Drum Circle's 7th anniversary and at the end I was ...

... which has a 100m high flagpole at its centre, and is surrounded by magnificent buildings, such as the National History Museum, Kuala Lumpur Memorial Library, the Royal Selangor Club. The Sultan Abdul Sannad building with its blend of Victorian and Moorish ...

... took 17 hours!  Most of the view the whole way down from Thailand was of Palm Oil Plantations. My first impression of Kuala Lumpur wasn't a good one.  As we were walking towards our hostel which was near to markets and within walking distance of ...

... Ib bags out of traffic's way...so begins our experience of all the craziness that is the capital city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur!  After knocking people over with our packs on the monorail, and experiencing crazy culture shock from being out numbered ...

... Feb - Tried to get a bus to the main station but it went past us leaving us with not much time to catch our connection to Kuala Lumpur (KL). So the four of us (2 friends) spent ages flagging a taxi to no avail. Just when we were thinking that we would ...

Welcome to Malaysia!  A quick 5 hour train ride from Singapore places you in Kuala Lumpur (KL).  Our travel books indicated that if short on time, to skip this city.  I would disagree.  KL is pretty diverse, hosting the same cultures ...

We arrived in Kuala Lumpur at about 10pm. The bus dropped us off on the side of a busy street - we didn't know where we were as we only had our vague Lonely Planet map. We hadn't booked accommodation as we'd not planned to come straight to KL. We headed ...

... after the pressures of the NAM conference. She didn't stop to speak to us though, funny that. The museum (8RM) houses nomadic tents, pottery, textiles, weaponry, jewellery, homewares and about a thousand different korans with their tiny writing so as ...

... a four star and offered a room for 2 adults and 2 children all for the price we were paying at some of the more expensive guest houses. When I booked on line I made sure that I reiterated that we needed a room with four beds in it to ensure that we were ...

... an hour until the tickets ran out. We will have to do it another day and set the alarm even earlier! We walked to Kuala Lumpur Tower which is a telecommunications tower over 250m tall and the 4th largest in the world. The views were amazing and we were ...

... short section of track, the Teman Negara is wet and it's leech season, Melaka is packed due to Chinese New Year and guest houses are full everywhere.  Good start! Getting all this information was like getting blood from a stone. The Chinese man in ...

... charge. In some countries they would of charged you a arm and a leg just for that bit of paper. Because we didn't arrive in Kuala Lumpur until the early morning we decided to have a little lay in, basically because if we got up really early to do site ...

... , despite being next door to our hostel, we'd managed to save going to see the Sri Mahamariamman Temple for our final day in Kuala Lumpur. It was a really relaxed way to finish our sight-seeing of KL as the mood was really laid back and inviting. The Sri ...

... of the coach, reclined our seats to the maximum level (close to horizontal) and enjoyed the nice relaxing trip. Approaching Kuala Lumpur the high-rise buildings stood out immediately, Katie was particularly amazed at the large skyscrapers lining ...

... This was ten storeys tall and, yes, it had a fun park including roller coaster. We spent three days wandering around Kuala Lumpur before boarding a bus and heading north to Penang where we thought we could find a little quiet relaxation. Penang is ...

... had arrived slightly before me.  We were then put in a taxi and driven the 70km or so into Kuala Lumpur itself. After checking into the Number 8 guest house I went to my room and met Steve, another of the volunteers on the project.  After ...

... , with the familiar crazy traffic providing the background soundtrack.         Aiman had warned us about Kuala Lumpur’s lousy public transport system. In navigating the city, we were brought back to the same sort of ...

... city than the Lonely Planet. For this reason, I was pleased we had done it even if we were starting to get cash tight! Kuala Lumpur was exactly what I'd expected - a sprawling city in the middle of the jungle. As vast as the city stretched, it ...