Malls in Kuala Lumpur

Kathleen and the Petronas Towers Bridge

The name Kuala Lumpur has always seemed quite exotic to me.  At least in part that was true because I knew nothing about it and could not have come even close to placing it on a map.  My mental image was of a third-world city with low-rise buildings and rickshaws on dirt streets.

On Thursday Kathleen and I went to the local mall.  It is reputably the biggest mall in South East Asia. It certainly makes anything we have in Ottawa seem puny.  In just the electronics section there were 10 to 15 shops, each with a much better selection of cell phones, tablets and accessories than at Best Buy or Future Shop in Kanata.  I wanted to get a plug adapter for charging all our stuff and the selection for this simple item was amazing.

Inside the Petronas Towers Mal

On Friday we visited another mall that is under the Petronas towers. They have a bookstore there that seems to have every book in print and most of them are in English.  Kathleen spent all her time in the ESL section and met a very interesting Dutch lady who was teaching ESL in China.

The towers themselves are quite impressive, being the tallest twin towers in the world.  In a previous blog I mentioned a film with Katherine Zeta-Jones hanging by her fingernails from the bridge between the towers.  In my photo I couldn't get the towers all in but you can see the bridge.  I tried to get Kathleen to do the fingernail trick- she is in the picture - see if you can find her.

On Sunday after church, we visited another mall.  What impressed me about this one was the drive there.  We drove down very modern freeways with lots of green space and hills around.  No rickshaws here! A map of the freeways looks like a plate of spaghetti.  No straight lines and freeways are everywhere. Driving would be a major challenge - you would sure have to know exactly where you were going.