Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia)

During a three month trip around South East Asia, I was desperate to visit Malaysia. We travelled up from Singapore on an overnight train which was interesting. We joked that this train was like the Hogwarts express, with its wooden frames. We were a little hungover from the evening before so dropped to sleep quite quickly, not realising that they wake everyone up after an hour to go through passport control (we probably should have realised that this would happen). I found the rest of the journey ok, but my friend was disturbed a lot by the train constantly stopping and starting, people boarding and alighting. The train which was advertised as arriving in Kuala Lumpar ...  Read the complete review

Stopped over Malaysias capital city whilst traveling around south east asia and what a great place to spend a few days to catch your breath before exploring the rest of the country, being a main airport hub KL is in easy reach to every main asian country and when using Asia Air very cheap too. We stayed at a couple of really cheap hostels that were recommended by the Rough Guide and were pleasently suprised on how clean they were and how friendly the people were, being in the center and near the metro also helps expand the places you can go and see. there are many activites to do whilst in the city for one there is a massive water park which was fantastic ...  Read the complete review

Kuala Lumpur is the capital of Malaysia. It is busy commercial airline transit hub making it a fairly cheap destination to fly to from Europe though better deals are usually to be found by flying to Bangkok first then getting a very cheap AirAsia (www.airasia.com)connecting flight to Kuala Lumpur. You can also get an international sleeper train (one via Butterworth in Malaysia, one via Hat Yai in Thailand) that will take you all the way to Bangkok and vice versa. The cost of a sleeper train with a bunk is very reasonable (roughly around 30-50$) and even the 2nd class sleeper is clean and comfortable. The journey is quite scenic and good fun. In high season you ...  Read the complete review

Kuala Lumpur is the capital of Malaysia, situated on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. It is very well connected with an international airport (where you can fly to Europe, Australia, America and other parts of Asia), a large train station (where you can get an overnight train to Singapore, the jungle train (runs to the north east of the country) or north to Penang (this line actually continues on to Bangkok). There is also a large bus station too with buses going to all over the country. Transport around the city is good too with an underground train system and a monorail. I never took a bus while I was there but the network seemed pretty good. ...  Read the complete review