My First trip the country that is truly Asia...
I had a week long training to be delivered in Malaysia, and with G just turning 2 (in September 2011)
we decided to travel as a family so we can have fun after my official work.
Our flight reached KL around 7 am in the morning, during landing we saw acres of Palm trees and the wide clean Malaysian roads welcoming us
Since we already had visa the immigration at KL went smoothly
We stayed at the Sunway Resort Hotel in Subang Jaya area. The Resort is attached to the Sunway Pyramid mall.The resort itself is so huge and has lot of leisure activities that people come here for holidays.We reached around 9 am and the hotel staff were kind enough to provide us a early check-in and complimentary breakfast on the day of arrival.G was going crazy with the huge corridors and the animal like structures that adorned the entrance to resort.
After settling in we enjoyed the huge buffet breakfast which had almost every fruit available and the main spread was a mix of Indian, Chinese, Thai and continental.
The spread was quite long that we could not cover all of them even after staying 5 days.
Saturday being a holiday we decided to laze around and catch with all the lost sleep during travel. In the evening we stepped out see the petronas towers and visited some of the shopping malls in kuala lumpur.
Since this was a week long visit with no particular agenda in mind.
Sunday morning along with another colleague of mine we took a taxi on rent and visited Battu caves, China town in KL.
Battu caves is a limestone hill along the banks of river Batu. Its about 13km from KL and is said to be at least 400 million years old.
The caves host a Hindu shrine for Lord Muruga, because of the Vel shaped entrance in the cave.We enjoyed the walk around the caves and climbed uphill to have a look a all view points.
Next day was Monday and I had to travel for work. I quickly cooked up a vegetable Pulav for G in our electric cooker and left for work. In the following 5 days of the week we explored different parts of the Sunway mall, mostly in evening took the rapid KL to visit different parts of KL
On Saturday morning we took a taxi on hire and visited Malacca(named after Melaka tree) the historical state, Malacca was earlier a fishing village.
En route to Malacca we stopped by on one of the umpteen fruit shops on the highway to buy some yummy local fruits. We visited the Museum a good tourist place and were tempted to take a ride in the heavily decorated bicycles but our guide advised against it and we continued our journey.We stopped at a tamil hotel for yummy Indian Vegetarian food which all of us thoroughly enjoyed.
After the lunch we went to visit the replica of 'Flor do Ma' a ship which was built in Lisbon in 1502. Flor do Mar was one of the longest-lasting ships of the India run. But when heavily loaded it was very difficult to manoeuvre it.
Despite being deemed unsafe, she supported in the conquest of Malacca. The ship got lost due to a storm during one of its journey.
According to local people, "it's the richest vessel to be ever lost at sea, with a load of precious stones".
After visiting the model we started back to KL, the Malacca city holds lot of memories Portugal cultural in Malaysia with beautiful churches build in 1700.
A midst the crowded tourist place lies the city that brings a sense of satisfaction, through its clean roads and trees loaded with red juicy rambuttan fruits.
We reached Sunway at about 6 in the evening and spent the evening lazying in the mall.
Next day we traveled to Cameroon Highlands with the same guide we started after an early breakfast.Cameroon Highlands is about 200km from Kuala Lumpur on the KL-Singapore Highway. The drive to cameroon highlands was beautiful with mountains by the side. It took us around 2 hours to reach the top of the hill. We Visited the butterfly garden and went for some strawberry plucking. It was very tough to control G from eating the fresh juicy strawberries but the hosts of the center were kind to allow him have some inside the park. We took our basket of strawberries and stopped by tea plantations to enjoy the picturesque view.
After a tummy filling lunch we returned to KL to start back on our journey to Bangalore..
and wanting to visit again to have more of Malaysia
I had a week long training to be delivered in Malaysia, and with G just turning 2 (in September 2011)
we decided to travel as a family so we can have fun after my official work.
Our flight reached KL around 7 am in the morning, during landing we saw acres of Palm trees and the wide clean Malaysian roads welcoming us
Since we already had visa the immigration at KL went smoothly
We stayed at the Sunway Resort Hotel in Subang Jaya area. The Resort is attached to the Sunway Pyramid mall.The resort itself is so huge and has lot of leisure activities that people come here for holidays.We reached around 9 am and the hotel staff were kind enough to provide us a early check-in and complimentary breakfast on the day of arrival.G was going crazy with the huge corridors and the animal like structures that adorned the entrance to resort.
After settling in we enjoyed the huge buffet breakfast which had almost every fruit available and the main spread was a mix of Indian, Chinese, Thai and continental.
The spread was quite long that we could not cover all of them even after staying 5 days.
Saturday being a holiday we decided to laze around and catch with all the lost sleep during travel. In the evening we stepped out see the petronas towers and visited some of the shopping malls in kuala lumpur.
Since this was a week long visit with no particular agenda in mind.
Sunday morning along with another colleague of mine we took a taxi on rent and visited Battu caves, China town in KL.
Battu caves is a limestone hill along the banks of river Batu. Its about 13km from KL and is said to be at least 400 million years old.
The caves host a Hindu shrine for Lord Muruga, because of the Vel shaped entrance in the cave.We enjoyed the walk around the caves and climbed uphill to have a look a all view points.
Next day was Monday and I had to travel for work. I quickly cooked up a vegetable Pulav for G in our electric cooker and left for work. In the following 5 days of the week we explored different parts of the Sunway mall, mostly in evening took the rapid KL to visit different parts of KL
On Saturday morning we took a taxi on hire and visited Malacca(named after Melaka tree) the historical state, Malacca was earlier a fishing village.
En route to Malacca we stopped by on one of the umpteen fruit shops on the highway to buy some yummy local fruits. We visited the Museum a good tourist place and were tempted to take a ride in the heavily decorated bicycles but our guide advised against it and we continued our journey.We stopped at a tamil hotel for yummy Indian Vegetarian food which all of us thoroughly enjoyed.
After the lunch we went to visit the replica of 'Flor do Ma' a ship which was built in Lisbon in 1502. Flor do Mar was one of the longest-lasting ships of the India run. But when heavily loaded it was very difficult to manoeuvre it.
Despite being deemed unsafe, she supported in the conquest of Malacca. The ship got lost due to a storm during one of its journey.
According to local people, "it's the richest vessel to be ever lost at sea, with a load of precious stones".
After visiting the model we started back to KL, the Malacca city holds lot of memories Portugal cultural in Malaysia with beautiful churches build in 1700.
A midst the crowded tourist place lies the city that brings a sense of satisfaction, through its clean roads and trees loaded with red juicy rambuttan fruits.
We reached Sunway at about 6 in the evening and spent the evening lazying in the mall.
Next day we traveled to Cameroon Highlands with the same guide we started after an early breakfast.Cameroon Highlands is about 200km from Kuala Lumpur on the KL-Singapore Highway. The drive to cameroon highlands was beautiful with mountains by the side. It took us around 2 hours to reach the top of the hill. We Visited the butterfly garden and went for some strawberry plucking. It was very tough to control G from eating the fresh juicy strawberries but the hosts of the center were kind to allow him have some inside the park. We took our basket of strawberries and stopped by tea plantations to enjoy the picturesque view.
After a tummy filling lunch we returned to KL to start back on our journey to Bangalore..
and wanting to visit again to have more of Malaysia
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