{"id":1127,"date":"2008-01-15T17:00:21","date_gmt":"2008-01-15T09:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/i-was-here\/2008\/01\/15\/view-from-kl-tower\/"},"modified":"2008-01-15T17:00:21","modified_gmt":"2008-01-15T09:00:21","slug":"view-from-kl-tower","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/i-was-here\/2008\/01\/15\/view-from-kl-tower\/","title":{"rendered":"View from KL Tower"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lifethrulens\/KLTower\/photo#5155616995858200306\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lifethrulens\/KLTower\/photo#5155616995858200306\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.google.com\/lifethrulens\/R4xuV5QYNvI\/AAAAAAAAIl4\/aGFO6WN2OVI\/s288\/DSC_0005.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Since the International Ponggal Festival was at KL Tower (or Menara KL) , I decided to visit it as well. Cost me RM10 (RM20 for non-MyKad holders). Parking is RM2.65\/hour. The staff were friendly and all smiles. There are lots of stall selling knick-knacks and souvenirs located in the tower itself. Few cafes and restaurants as well, among them D&#8217;Tandoor.<\/p>\n<p>The lift took 58 seconds to reach the observatory level (TH01).<\/p>\n<p>There were about 30 other visitors at that time. Mostly foreigners. I went around the whole observatory twice. Took me about 20 minutes. The weather was quite hazy, so I couldn&#8217;t see clearly beyond few kilometres.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lifethrulens\/KLTower\/photo#5155617051692775186\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lifethrulens\/KLTower\/photo#5155617051692775186\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.google.com\/lifethrulens\/R4xuZJQYNxI\/AAAAAAAAImI\/W-Pu0XxDtQs\/s288\/DSC_0008.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The viewing deck had fixed standing binoculars and maps so that we can identify the landmarks.<\/p>\n<p>I took some shots but not very clear due to the weather.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lifethrulens\/KLTower\/photo#5155617223491467106\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lifethrulens\/KLTower\/photo#5155617223491467106\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.google.com\/lifethrulens\/R4xujJQYN2I\/AAAAAAAAImw\/eDKXKBsqHps\/s288\/DSC_0017.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were also some traditional malay musical performance (Gamelan) which runs on schedule.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lifethrulens\/KLTower\/photo#5155617841966758082\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lifethrulens\/KLTower\/photo#5155617841966758082\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh5.google.com\/lifethrulens\/R4xvHJQYOMI\/AAAAAAAAIpk\/sTFB4zdvKLo\/s288\/DSC_0058.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s also a 103-years old tree just next to the tower.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lifethrulens\/KLTower\/photo#5155617700232837218\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lifethrulens\/KLTower\/photo#5155617700232837218\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lh4.google.com\/lifethrulens\/R4xu-5QYOGI\/AAAAAAAAIo0\/kNr6M1nXvCo\/s288\/DSC_0049.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The official website is www.menarakl.com.my<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/s\/c\/bin\/slideshow.swf\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" flashvars=\"host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;captions=1&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Flifethrulens%2Falbumid%2F5155616965793429217%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" height=\"355\" width=\"550\"><\/embed>View the photos at <a href=\"http:\/\/picasaweb.google.com\/lifethrulens\/KLTower\">Picasa<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since the International Ponggal Festival was at KL Tower (or Menara KL) , I decided to visit it as well. Cost me RM10 (RM20 for non-MyKad holders). Parking is RM2.65\/hour. The staff were friendly and all smiles. There are lots of stall selling knick-knacks and souvenirs located in the tower itself. Few cafes and restaurants [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[132],"class_list":["post-1127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-i-was-here","tag-tourism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/poobalan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}