Lookback: Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2012)

Tomas Lyngen

Published: 24 Oct 2021

In 2012 I backpacked through Asia and in this lookback series I'll take you through some of my experiences. Now we're going to Malaysia

Last few weeks we have lookback on my Backpacking (2012) travels and we've now arrived in Malaysia

Lookback series

As most of us still have heavy restrictions when it comes to travel. I'll do a lookback series on Sundays, to different destinations. These can be all from countries to stores

As many of the photos are around 10 years old, they might not be as high resolution and level of quality we try to stay at today

Checkout #lookback and #backpacking2012 for other articles in this series

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Back in the heat of SE-Asia and have enjoyed a few days now in Kuala Lumpur (KL) in Malaysia. I can honestly say I miss Japan, considering everything I’m interested in was at every street corner of Japan, but on the other hand, one weeks budget in Japan last about 3 weeks here

So far I have visited Petronas Towers, which is the tallest twin-towers in the world, and was the tallest tower(s) until 2004. The Entertainment district (more about that further down) and China Town area, where I’m currently staying.

It’s not everyday you get to meet Batman, Joker and a full size replica of the Christopher Nolan Batmobile. This is in a “DC Comics DC Super Heroes” shop in a shopping mall in the entertainment district of KL. They had a ton of stuff the most fans would go crazy over to see, you had for example on display the Superman suit worn by Brandon Routh in Superman Returns, the batmobile replica (as already mentioned), all kinds of statues/figures, DC clothing, original film roll pieces from the Christopher Nolan Batman movies and so one.

In the entertainment district you’ll find huge, HUGE shopping malls that have everything. I went one day to the Time Square shopping mall and they have a amusement part from 5th floor to about 8 floor). So I have for the first time of my life taken a roller coaster inside a shopping mall, and so far it has to be the best roller coaster I have taken

I also went to an arcade hall in the same building and after being in Japan I was disappointed, as I expected I would be. The games was mainly very old, and a few of them was in a poorly state. I found one of my favorite arcade games series, and sometimes the character would jump by itself, so it got killed. So everything was not working as it should