Kuala Lumpur
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Overview : The Federal Capital Kuala Lumpur is to only 35 km on the center of north and south very close at the west coast of the peninsula Malaysia.In the year 1857 under guidance of the Malay rajah Abdullah in the area where the Gombak and Klang rivers meet. That is the time, when this city developed. From then on it constantly grew, with the tin came the prosperity, and from the simple camp became a metropolitan city. The times are unforgotten, are nevertheless the certifications of this era everywhere visible.
Under the influence of the British born in 1896 the Federation of Malaysia, in which the former Malay Sultanate and joined the then Kuala Lumpur to make its first capital. The British also moved their entire administrations in the city, and thus it also benefited in many ways: The road network was created, the markets and public buildings, which in its graceful architecture today at the Kuala Lumpur attractions.
When the Malaysian attained its independence then in the year 1957, they made for Kuala Lumpur their Federal Capital. However, only in the year 1972 it became an independent city, because it was since 1887 the capital of Selangor, in its area. On 1 February 1974 it was made by Federal law the federal territory and received its own administration.
The clean, beautiful city of Kuala Lumpur, with its tree-roads, parks and public facilities flower turns to night time in a veritable wonderland of lights and helps get the nickname "Garden City of Lights.” Thanks to its strategic location in the region, Kuala Lumpur is a major international trade and business centre.
The city is merged into a comprehensive modern traffic system. More than 30 airlines from all parts of the world approach the modern Kuala Lumpur internationally airport (KLIA). From Kuala Lumpur rail and road connections offer quick entrance to other regions. In addition, a railway service was introduced, which connects the metropolis with neighbor cities. The public traffic system of the city was continued to expand with the start-up of the LRT "Light Rail transit".
Kuala Lumpur is also to the country's biggest seaport, Port Klang connected.
Sightseeing : In just 130 years, Kuala Lumpur has grown from nothing to a modern, bustling city with more than million inhabitants . At first glance, KL, as it is usually called, is one of the modern Asian metropolises. It is full of shiny skyscrapers appear, but it has a lot of character and the local reserve, which in other Asian boom towns such as Singapore as effectively been eradicated. In the inner city, there is a whole series of colonial buildings, a lively Chinatown with street stalls and night markets, and a bustling Indian quarter on the lower end of Jl. Tuanku Abdul Rahman.
If something will build up in KL, then mostly is in the big frame. The twin towers of the Petronas Towers, the tallest building in the world, dominate the skyline, and at the Merdeka Square, a 95-meter-high flagpole - the highest in the world. Despite the economic crisis in Southeast Asia shook, Malaysia still has ability to build a mega project. For example, it expensively paid the eight billion US dollars for new capital of Putra Jaya between BDR and the gigantic new KLIA Airport, and an "ultra-high-tech multi-media super corridor" in the neighborhood.
Budget hotels and hostels can be found in Chinatown and around the Pudu Raya bus station. Hotels in the middle price range also concentrate in Chinatown and at the Jalan Bukit Bintang. On the evening of interesting food stalls at the market in the China Town in Jalan Alor, parallel to Jalan Bukit Bintang,
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