Tag archive for Kuala Lumpur

Malaysia

Where people drink juices, hot milk teas and other suspiciously-coloured liquids from plastic bags, which they carry around like intravenous handbags on strings. Where industrialization is still in a selfish state: Men throw wrappers and cigarette buts freely on the ground. Children send used napkins…

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LRTs and Pink Minibuses

  Kuala Lumpur went by in a blur, not because we were drunk, since drinks in Malaysia are unaffordable on our shoestringer of a budget. No, KL was hazy because it is a city that is both blessed and plagued by its own infrastructure. Touring…

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Kuala Lumpur – Chinatown – Wheelers 5 Star Hotel

We found our guesthouse in Kuala Lumpur just as thick drops of rain were beginning to pierce through the sticky heat. This wasn’t our first choice and hardly the only place we looked. But bohemian-inspired Le Village had been boarded up sometime since Lonely Planet…

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