A different world: Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia (November 2025)

We made it to Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and Rosinante was safely parked. It was a whole different world than central asia. From the airplane everything looked green, full of jungle, but not the city 🏙️
But instead of jungle Kuala Lumpur had these very impressive towers 🌆
Beautiful in their own way 🥳
Some even blended a bit into nature which was not so easy in that concrete city 🌱
The roads and rails got built in multiple levels and we had to get used to finding our walking pathes through these labyrinths.
It felt like KL was made for driving by car than by bicycle or even walking 🧭
But it was fun 😁
The culture was very different in so many ways.
One example are stores with plenty of action, manga, and cute figures 😀
And of course the small markets were very vivid and colorful 🎊
As was the street art 🎨
And the bars of China Town were we moved into our first hostel 🏮
This one reminded us of Uzbekistan with all the small Damas Deluxe micro vans 😁
Proper asian street restaurants 🥳
Sticky rice with mango and coconut sauce 🥰
And proper ice cream 🍨
But we did not expect to find the Christmas craziness in Malaysia 🎁
One day, we went to a small art and science festival. It was very interesting. We painted and talked to the super friendly locals 🥳
We met one of these awesome robots of which I had seen so many videos on YouTube before 🤖
And we painted motorcycles which then got digitalized and were racing a digital race 🏁
It was a nice and fun experience 🎊
We knew that it would be the rainy season in the beginning of our stay in Malaysia, but still the rainfalls were impressive! And it was obvious that the city was used to it. We were joking that in ten minutes of these rains, all the rain of one year in the stan countries came down.
But apart from the impressive rainfalls it was not that rainy. And on our third day, we went climbing near the Batu Caves 🥳
It was very different than in the stans! There were a lot of plants on top and sometimes in the routes. More insects. But very nice!
The easy routes had very comfortable steps and handles. And the rock was very interesting. Especially the tufa: rock formations that formed from calcium carbonate. Sometimes it was even possible to climb on or through these tufa 🚀