Trips To Kuala Lumpur is an independent guide to the city, written and maintained by Samer Alqaisi. It is part of a network that includes Trips To The World and separate guides to Istanbul, Madrid, New York, Dublin, Prague, Budapest, Vienna, Edinburgh, Dubai, Cairo, Sydney, Toronto, Hong Kong, Mexico City, Manchester, Zagreb and Oslo.
What this site is trying to be
Kuala Lumpur is usually written up as a stopover with two towers in it. That misses both what is interesting about the city and what is difficult about visiting it.
Two things run through this guide that most do not say clearly.
The climate decides your day. It is 32 degrees with 90 per cent humidity, there is a thunderstorm most afternoons, and there is a haze season that can make an expensive observation deck worthless. So this site gives that its own article — the heat, the haze and the monsoon — and every itinerary here is built around it.
This city is hard to walk. Pavements end, distances are longer than they look, and a fifteen-minute walk on a map is a serious undertaking at two in the afternoon. The transport article says so, and explains the covered walkway network that nobody signposts.
How it is researched
Opening times, ticket structures and access rules come from the venue’s own source and are dated on the page. Where a price is not shown, it has not been checked recently enough to print.
Corrections are made quickly and acknowledged.
How it is funded
Advertising and some affiliate links, mainly hotel and flight search. If you book through one, the site may earn a commission at no additional cost to you.
What that does not buy: no hotel, restaurant, tour operator or attraction has paid for a mention or a position here. No sponsored posts, no paid placements, no press trips.
Where something is not worth the money, the page says so — which is why the Petronas Towers entry points out that the one view you cannot get from them is of the towers themselves, why the Jalan Alor page says it is priced for visitors and lists where locals eat instead, and why the Petaling Street entry says plainly that it is a counterfeit market and that buying there is illegal in most countries you would carry the goods home to.
Photographs
The photographs on this site are not the author’s. They come from Wikimedia Commons under licences permitting reuse, and every one is credited beside the image and again at /credits/.
Corrections and contact
If something here is wrong or out of date, please say so. Specific corrections with a date or a link are the most useful kind.
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