Kuala Lumpur

I bet you can tell who writes what. I spent the day mostly in bed to rest my weary body. My great excursion today was taking a shower. By the end of the day, I was able to get dressed and join Michael and Duncan and Melinda for dinner tonight and go to the show.  There is no way that Michael could sit on the ship and do nothing so of course he went off and did the included tour. Here is his description.

I was on a very enjoyable excursion today in Kuala Lumpur. Unfortunately, the boat was actually docked in Port Klang, which is an hour and a half from Kuala Lumpur so there was quite a lot of bus travel to and fro. Once we got there, we stopped initially at the National Museum where we had approximately 45 minutes to explore something worth at least two hours. It was a very good museum. Interestingly, and while it was a fairly new building, with fairly new restrooms, the toilets were the old-fashioned hole in the ground, where one is required to squat.

From the museum, we traveled next to the Kuala Lumpur National Mosque, a beautiful, relatively new building. While most citizens of Kuala Lampur are Muslim, this is still not a Muslim country. Therefore, non-Muslims are able to enter the building at other than prayer hours.  

National mosque 

We walked a little bit from the national mosque to view the original Kuala Lumpur railway station, which was built in traditional colonial architecture.

Original railway station 

Our next stop was the National Memorial, which was a combination of memorials recognizing the veterans of World War I, World War II and the fight against communism, which didn’t end until 1957. The statue erected to celebrate that latter success was created by the same man who built the Iwo Jima statue in Washington DC. It is similar in several respects, although bigger and more intricate.

Our final stop was downtown Kampur, where we stopped next at the twin towers. Kuala Lumpur downtown is a very modern city and host to not only the second largest sky scraper in the world, but also the single largest  skyscraper comprised of two buildings. This 86 story magnificent structure connected with a walkway between the two towers on the 46 floor is quite something to see. From here, it was another hour and a half back to the ship, fortunately including a pee break.