R. Doug Wicker — Author

Kuala Lumpur certainly has its fair share of tall structures. For instance, the photo above was taken from the observation deck of Kaula Lumpur Tower, which is 1,381 feet/421 meters tall. And in that image is Merdeka 118, which stands 2,227 feet/679 meters! In case you’ve not guessed yet, 118 is not the address; it’s the number of stories. That makes the megatall skyscraper Merdeka 118 the second tallest, coming in right behind Dubai’s Burj Khalifa (see my article on that monster at: Dubai — Burj Khalifa and Museum of the Future). And while KL and Merdeka are huge, they are not the only ones dominating the Kuala Lumpur skyline. Let us not forget the Petronas Twin Towers at 1,483 feet/452 meters:

As one might imagine, just the skyline and views alone are worth a trip to Kuala Lumpur:

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On Wednesday, 12 November, Ursula and I boarded Celebrity Cruise’s ship Millenium for the next segment of our Southeast Asia journey. The next day we found ourselves in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Why such a short trip? Because Malaysia and Singapore are neighbors sharing the Peninsular Malaysia, a political division of the much larger Malay Peninsula. As usual, Ursula had a busy tour awaiting us in Kuala Lumpur, and the first attraction on this tour would be the 1,381-foot/421-meter Kuala Lumpur Tower. Npw, despite having spent an entire Air Force and FAA career in tall structures, one would not expect me to have acrophobia, but guess what…. Actually, that’s not quite true. It’s not so much tall heights, or even falling from such heights. What I fear is the sudden stop at the end of that fall!

But Ursula wanted to go up, so I naturally acquiesced despite a case of jitters not unlike Jimmy Stewart’s in Alfred Hitchcock’s classic 1958 film Vertigo.

KL Tower was not the only tall structure we visited this day. I’ll show you another pair of them on Wednesday, the world-famous Petronas Twin Towers. But KL Tower was the highest I went on this trip.

But back to KL Tower and the views both in and around this quiver-inducing tingle machine:

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