Petronas Towers

Twin Towers, Starbucks, "Rolexes", and a Whole Lot More . . .

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May 7th 2007
Kuala Lumpur After a seven hour train ride from Singapore, we arrived in Kuala Lumpur ready to find a place to stay. A taxi attempted to take us to Hotel Chinatown Inn, but we ended up being dropped off at the far end of a night market with instructions that it was somewhere "down there". Imagine Wal-Mart, with even smaller aisles and even more people, and everywhere you turn there's a ma ... read more

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During the late 18th and 19th centuries, Great Britain established colonies and protectorates in the area of current Malaysia; these were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. In 1948, the British-ruled territories on the Malay Peninsula formed the Fe... ... read more