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KualaLumpur posts
Video Of The Day: Amazing Kuala Lumpur Time Lapse
Oct 22nd, 2012 at 6:00PM:
Once a small Chinese tin-mining village, Kuala Lumpur has grown to be the largest city in Malaysia, a metropolis of around 6.5 million people. The transformation took only about 150 years, and today visitors will find an ultra-modern city with dazzling lights, cloud-reaching skyscrapers, a state-of-the-art monorail, bustling shopping centers and more.
Architectural photographer Rob ...
Party On A Private Plane With AirAsiaX's New Facebook Campaign
Apr 16th, 2012 at 4:30PM: One lucky fan of AirAsiaX's Facebook page will win the trip of a lifetime – a private plane ride from Sydney to Kuala Lumpur on an Airbus A330 for themselves and 302 of their Facebook friends, plus three nights of free accommodations.
The contest is being held in celebration of the airline's new Sydney to Kuala Lumpur route, which launched earlier this month. The trip will take place ...Eight interesting facts about North Korea's airline
Aug 3rd, 2011 at 8:00AM:
What do you know about Air Koryo? Probably not much. The state-run airline for North Korea, it's the only realistic way you can fly into the country, unless you have some sort of crazy commando resources at your disposal. Of course, there's a lot you have to do before booking your ticket, and getting a visa can be quite difficult for Americans and other westerners. If you do make it through ...Daily Pampering: Organic resort spa opens in Malaysia
Jan 12th, 2011 at 4:00PM: The Chateau Spa and Wellness Resort, the world's first organic wellness destination spa resort, will open on April 28, 2011 in a 150-million-year-old tropical rainforest in the Berjaya Hills, Malaysia.
Modeled after an 18th century medieval 'Haut Koesnigburg' castle in Alsace, France, The Chateau has 210 rooms and suites. The Chateau offers three, five, and seven night packages that are ...Culinary travel tale: exploring Malaysia's complicated cultural feast
Sep 20th, 2010 at 2:25PM: Two weeks after I arrived in Kuala Lumpur, it was all over the news: an American fast-food chain had accidentally sold thousands of non-Halal beef burgers to nearly as many Muslim Malaysians. Panic streaked across radio airwaves and through the devout. Religious leaders issued decrees absolving the unsuspecting sinners. I didn't understand what all the fuss was about, so my roommate, a beautiful ...Snakes on a plane - for real?
Sep 7th, 2010 at 1:00PM: First it was monkeys, and now this. A Malaysian man pleaded guilty to smuggling after 95 live boa constrictors burst out of his bag on a luggage belt in the Kuala Lumpur International Airport last week.
Ken Liang "Anson" Wong, 52, was charged with exporting the snakes without a permit, said Shamsuddin Osman, a Malaysian wildlife department official. He will face six months in prison and the ...Worst travel mistakes of the 2000's: Kuala Lumpur passport shenanigans
Dec 30th, 2009 at 2:00PM: Back before my days as a Gadling blogger I used to travel on an extremely tight margin. As a starving college graduate, travel was my main priority -- debt, work and rent, well, those were ancillary.
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My usual modus operandi involved saving up a few hundred ...Want a lifetime of free flights? Give birth on board
Oct 23rd, 2009 at 6:15PM:
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There's one lucky newborn baby and mom living in Malaysia. The mother, a 31-year-old Malaysian woman, added excitement and drama to an AirAsia flight from Penang to Kuching this past Wednesday when she gave birth to her bundle of joy while the plane was still ...Photo of the day (10-8-09)
Oct 8th, 2009 at 8:00PM: Mingthein posted this picture to our Flickr group page a few years ago, but I've only just now stumbled upon it. Karen Walrond wrote in her Gadling feature, Through the Gadling Lens, about shooting cities at twilight, and she also covered cloud and sky photography just prior to that. So it seemed fitting to post this, a picture from Kuala Lumpour that effectively used the techniques featured in ...Canopy Tours: Ohio and Malaysia
May 27th, 2008 at 11:55PM: People give me tips on where to travel whenever they have been some where they think I would like. A friend of mine jumped out of her chair in the middle of a sentence, remembering a place she went this past weekend. She fetched a certificate from the Hocking Hills Canopy Tours, saying, "This was great."
From the description of the tour, and from what my friend said, it proves that outdoor ...Thaipusam festival: Body piercing equals devotion and thanksgiving
Feb 23rd, 2008 at 9:00AM: Thaipusam has passed and I'm wondering where I was. Back in November I planned to write a post, but it was too early. Now I'm late. But, considering that this festival is probably the most astounding event I've ever attended, consider this is a lesson in religion and culture--and perhaps some politics. The first year I lived in Singapore, one of the few countries where the holiday is celebrated, I ...Human Rights Day is tomorrow, but the walk in Malaysia is canceled
Dec 9th, 2007 at 1:00PM: International Human Rights Day is tomorrow, December 10. The day was established by the UN to commemorate the Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the general assembly of the UN in 1948.
When I was looking for information to let you, the Gadling reader, know what events are going on in the world to make the world a nicer place in honor of Human Rights Day, I found web pages that could not be ...
