You can walk through the city center and encounter all sorts of businessman and -women in perfectly fitting suits typing away on their notebooks in a Starbucks. And then you turn into a side-alley, where homeless people in awful conditions beg for money. Just next to the glittering shopping malls, with armored security personnel in front of every luxury boutique, you find street vendors selling cheap food and drinks. Black luxury limousines are parking next to old, rusty Toyotas.
You see women in tiny hot-pants and high-heels (mostly of Chinese descent), women with colorful Indian scarfs and women in black Burqas that leave only a small slit for the eyes. And all of them trying out the new iphone at an Apple store.
Men with turbans, men in robes with long gray beards, young men with fancy haircuts and way to much oil in their hair. People on the street kindly helping you with directions and Buddhist monks selling peace in the form of little golden badges.
You can hear people talking in Malay, English, Chinese and India. Some people try to scam you with faked games or overpriced souvenirs. People smiling at you with no obvious reason, saying hello to you on the street and wishing you a nice day. You can watch the religious police shooing young (unmarried) Muslim couples apart because they dared to hold hands in public. And so on ...
Kuala Lumpur seems to be a mix of almost everything.
market in Chinatown
central market
lake Titiwangsa
old British influenced building in Little India
KL Tower
old Bentley, stopped and caught in heavy traffic just in front of meAnd the Petronas Twin Towers are just amazing ...
cleaning the Malay flag at the outside of the Petronas Towers
in the park behind the Petronas Towers
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