Kuala Lumpur Tower or KL Tower

From Wikipedia: The Kuala Lumpur Tower (officially known as Menara Kuala Lumpur; referred later as KL Tower) is a tall tower located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and was built in 1995. It is used for communication purposes and features an antenna that reaches 421 m (1,381 ft), which currently makes it the fifth tallest tower in the world. The tower also contains a revolving restaurant, providing diners a beautiful view of the city. The tower also has an observation deck from which you can see a bird eye view of the city.

I’ve visited this tower two times. Once was at noon and the second was at night. I think the best time to see the Kuala Lumpur city from KL Tower is at night. The city and the surrounding area will be blown up with the beautiful fantastic lights around the city. Yes you have to buy the ticket to go to the observation deck, the cost is RM 20 (Adult) and RM 10 (Children). And it’s open 365 days a year from 9.00 am until 10.00 pm.

The super fast elevator will bring you to the observation deck within a minute. At the observation deck someone will give you the tape recorder with the head set which will act as a guide along the observation deck. It’s available in 11 language. I encourage you to use this tape recorder if you want to know the name of the buildings from the observation deck. If you just want to take a pictures and don’t want to get messy with the cable from the big tape recorder and the head set you could just say no when they offered you. You will have a much better view than the Petronas Tower because this observation deck is much higher than the skybridge in Petronas Towers.

There is no time limit and you are free to stay at the observation deck as long you needed. You can also having a nice lunch and dinner at the KL Tower revolving restaurant. The restaurant is open daily from 11.30 am to 2.30 pm for lunch and 7.00 pm to 11.00 pm for dinner. But you have to make the reservation first. I never had a lunch or dinner at this restaurant, but you can check KL Tower website here for more detail about reservation for revolving restaurant.

Because it was built at the top off the hill and at the centre of the rain forest, KL Tower also has a tour for it. The tour include bird watching and there is also a camping site available on request. In this tour you can experience the birds watching, jungle trekking, jogging trails, forest walk, camping, playground, flora fauna and Jelutong Tree.

Getting there is easy, just take a taxi, all the taxi drivers know this place. Or if you prefer the cheapest one just take the train. Take the Putra LRT train an stop at the Dang Wangi station. From there go to the Bukit Nanas monorail station, it’s about 300 meter from Dang Wangi Station. Stop at the Raja Chulan station and you can walk from there and take the free shuttle bus at the main entrance of KL Tower.

There are also an ATM, money changer, toilets, a wheel chairs and public phone provided by the KL tower at the ground floor.

Video of people jumping from KL Tower