Lasīt tālāk
06.Nov
KUALALUMPUR
05 Nov
- 2006 -
Author
Andis Pikāns
280 kilometers made. Kuala Lumpur is a modern city full of ancient Asian traditions, opened for the entire world. Moor mosques reflect in the glass walls of the skyscrapers, and markets of Chinatown stun with the scent of the exotic food.
The background is pictured with the mirror walls of the modern trade centers, glamorous hotels, metallic towers of the business centers and hundreds of faces of different nations, religions and cultures.
We enter the city in the afternoon. Our friends have already booked the room in the central hotel for us and have got tickets to the Petronas Towers, which is not the easiest thing to do: there are only 800 tickets available daily because the visit is free. Of course, there are enough people willing to get upstairs to catch the view from the second highest tower in the world (452 m). Frankly, I prefer the view from St. Peter’s Church tower or hotel “Latvia” in Riga. Later, we part from our friends again, and this time they are going home. And we surely have to continue our trip to Melbourne.
