We did a day trip into the big city today. We got picked up by taxi at the marina for the ride into Port Klang (Den 012 356 9017 for taxi with good english)and costs 50RM. Then took the train from Port Klang to KL Kuala Lumpur. This costs only about 4 RM each. After arriving in the city we got a schedule and caught the local rail to the Petronas twin towers which were the highest buildings in the world until a few years ago. We were disappointed that the free tickets to go up the towers was suspended while they did some maintenance or changes.
We then walked to the tourist info center which gives out very good city maps and they showed us where the shopping was. Then we went exploring.
It is a lively busy dynamic city and we enjoyed ourselves. KL is the capital of Malaysia and has a population of 1.6 million. We did lots of walking around, people watching, and looked in many interesting shops. There is some very high end stores like Harrods, Gucci and all the other very expensive names. There is also lots of cheaper shopping much like Singapore.
Coming back the train was very busy and we had to shove hard to get on train with everyone and were in like sardines and stood for the first half of trip back. The trains all have a ladies only car which I thought funny. We just grabbed the first taxi we saw by train station for the last leg back and that was 40rm. Got back an hour after dark for the end of a great day.
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