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Malaka is the last destination of one day trip in Sept 24, 2005. It is quite long distance to visit this place from Kuala Lumpur (KL). Even, when we went there, We were almost getting lost as we used private car and passed many silent streets. Probably not the correct way, but finally we arrived there.

Malaka is a part of Malaysia where it was collonized by many european coutries, such as Pertugal, Dutch, British, and also Japan in 2nd world war. That is the reason why so many ancient european style building are in here. The nice place is the hill that you can see the beach. Before that, you can find many old buildings, such as: Satdhuys building as the residence place of european people when they collonized this place. When you go up to the top of the hill, you will find the Franciscus Xaverius church. From the tale story, during missionary works in Malaysia including Indonesia, Saint Franciscus Xaverius stayed in this church. Unfortunately, this church is heavily destroyed. It remains only the stone floor and some part of the church wall. Some written stones were there with story inside.

It does not mean that I regard this place. Putrajaya is a new goverment complex built during Mahatir's dynasti and it consists many big buildings with modern style. This place is also one of the proposed tourist site by many travel agencies in Kuala Lumpur. In my opinion, please think for a while, more and more..

There is a small lake or may be river near the big mosque in Putrajaya. They also offer small bout if you want to going around on the water. There was a silly story about the water there. At first, there should be no water there, then they create a small lake in the construction and put water by cut the river. Many people have been suffered due to this and they became lack of water. Anyway, out of that story, it shows that Malay goverment is really want to create something new that can be attact many people to come. You can see many artistic bridges surround this 'sintetic' city.

What is the most interesting thing in Kuala Lumpur? for me is just to have a picture in front of Kuala Lumpur (KL) Petronas tower. It is because this twin tower is wellknown as worldwide famous KL symbol. It has 452 meter tall.

KL tower is actually consists of a shopping mall and office. The first tower is used by Petronas while the second is rented to other companies, such as Boing, IBM, Microsoft, and so on. At the bottom part, there is Suria KLCC shopping mall that you can buy the most prestigious things in Malaysia here. Don't ask me about the price which will be, I think, very expensive. Outside, there is a small park that you can take a rest, enjoy the day, or having a small exercise or sport. To get here, it is very easy, because KL is already connected by underground subway and monorail system. You can also (probably) have a chance to go up but there is a schedule for it.