Kuala Lumpur

Elephants at Kuala Gandah

by Brandon Pearce Feb 12, 2012 3 Comments

About 90 minutes northeast from Kuala Lumpur lies the elephant sanctuary at Kuala Gandah. Many elephants have been forced from their homes due to destruction of their natural habitat for farming. Elephants become accustomed to using the same paths their whole lives, and farmers don’t usually take well to having their fields trampled. Fortunately, it’s now illegal to kill the elephants, but many have been...

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Petronas Towers and Petrosains

by Brandon Pearce Feb 09, 2012 3 Comments

The most famous landmark in all of Malaysia is arguably the Petronas Towers, which was the tallest building in the world from 1998-2004 before being surpassed by the Taipei 101 skyscraper. It’s still the tallest twin buildings in the world, though, and we went to see them several times while in Kuala Lumpur, and even enjoyed seeing them from our apartment window each day. At...

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Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia / Travel

KL Bird Park

by Brandon Pearce Feb 06, 2012 4 Comments

Our time in Kuala Lumpur is coming to an end and we’re heading out to Singapore in just a couple days. But I still have a lot of activities to blog about and pictures to highlight. One of these was the KL Bird Park, which boasts the largest free flight aviary in the world. From our time in Costa Rica, I thought I’d seen all...

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Kuala Lumpur

The Batu Caves

by Brandon Pearce Feb 03, 2012 7 Comments

There are a lot of tourist attractions in Kuala Lumpur. So many that we haven’t even tried to see them all. But we chose a few highlights to enjoy during our month here. One of these was the impressive Batu Caves. Guarding the entrance to the Batu Caves is a 43 meter high golden statue of the Hindu diety Lord Murugan, followed by a staircase...

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Kuala Lumpur / Malaysia / Travel

Welcome to Kuala Lumpur

by Brandon Pearce Jan 25, 2012 8 Comments

We’ve been in Kuala Lumpur for almost 3 weeks now and we love it! We never thought we’d say that about a big city because we don’t like concrete jungles, smog, and places where people are too busy to talk to you. But we’ve also never been in a city like Kuala Lumpur, and it has some really great things going for it. In fact,...

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