Kuala Lumpur

Did you ever see a huge building like this one? Well, this is Kuala Lumpur, a city of extremes. Mixed Malay, Chinese and Indian culture, with a predominant conservative Muslim Malay culture, which has the power in economic and social terms. There are not so many opportunities for Chinese and Indian minorities to develop, but Malaysia actually lives from their work and their culture. There is an amazing Chinatown, great food and nice Hinduist, Buddhist temples and big mosques. People love to go shopping, specially women tourists from Middle East running with their families and bargaining every cent Ringgit they can, sometimes just for fun. In Kuala Lumpur, shops are open until 10 pm, you can get a massage until 5 am (I took a reflexology massage at 2 am, when I arrived from Yogyakarta) and eat what you want anytime. Beside this, the city is not really interesting, as it is all commercial and for business purposes. The monorail is great, but the conservative culture contrasts with the futuristic architecture. A strange place, worth for a 2 day visit, or in my case, just for the visa extension to go back to Indonesia.