With Malaysia always having been a holiday destination to mainly visit family, many tourist attractions have been overlooked, by my immediate family and I. I concluded this was the perfect time to change this trend. My cousin, Naz, kindly offered to be the guide in Kuala Lumpur. It made a change seeing him in the morning daylight because we both usually went to bed shorty before, in the early hours, to wake in the mid afternoon. The first stop was the National Mosque. At first glance, the mosque is not anywhere near as impressive as the blue domed mosque in Shah Alam. Unusually the mosque had no dome but a circular fan-like structure, much like a lampshade. I assume this is to make it look unique to the rest of the grand mosques in Malaysia. Before
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