Tourist Attractions

Kuala Lumpur offers many attractions for tourists or KLites itself. If you’re from outside Malaysia, visiting the top or popular attractions in Kuala Lumpur is ‘compulsory’ as the proof you’ve really been in this city before going to your hometown.

Here are the top or best attractions among tourists in Kuala Lumpur:

1. Petronas Twin Towers or also Petronas Towers

Probably the most prominent building in Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) and Kuala Lumpur skyline.

This 88-storey towers is actually the headquarter of Petronas, the Malaysia’s oil and gas company.

These twin towers are connected by a skybridge at 41st floor.

You need to get the ticket to the skybridge which has the limited quota on daily basis.

If you want to get this oppotunity, make sure yo go there earlier than anybody else.

2. KL Tower or Menara KL

Located at the peak of Bukit Nanas and adjacent to the forest reserve makes KL Tower another outstanding building to see from most parts of Kuala Lumpur and Klang Valley.

KL Tower serves as the telecommunication tower and on the observatory deck, there are telescopes that you can use to view the surrounding Kuala Lumpur city and adjacent areas by zooming in and out.

3. Chinatown or Petaling Street

Chinatown Kuala Lumpur has long been the must visit place in this capital city of Malaysia due to the cheap stuff sold here in its night market and business premises there.

You need to know how to haggle if you want to buy them at cheaper prices.

4. Batu Caves

The best and perfect time to visit Batu Caves is during Thaipusam festival where you can see the brave Hindu devotees carrying ‘Kavadi’.

During this festival, Batu Caves is highly crowded by people from Hindu faith from all over Malaysia. Beside them, you can see lots of tourists are there.

5. Little India

Little India is situated just stone’s throw away from Masjid Jamek LRT Station.

This place is well known for selling especially high quality and beautiful textile products that you can buy from various shops here.

Many shops or premises here are run by Indian people as you can see from the business banners and signboards.

6. Central Market or Pasar Seni

Cenral Market was a wet market in early Kuala Lumpur development that sold fish,vegetables and other everyday needs.

Now Central Market is a place where you can buy the traditional handcrafts of Malaysia as well Batik etc.

You can get your photo or image drawn by the artist here at affordable price.

7. Kuala Lumpur Bird Park

See more than 3,000 birds here including the rare Bird of Paradise. Around 20-hectare in area, you got to see so many types of bird species from all over the world while they flying or wander freely in this park.

Kuala Lumpur Bird Parkk is part of the popular Lake Garden and going to this park is like back to the nature.