Malaysia – Truly Asia
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Lihini Wijesekara (13 years) Lyceum Int. School, Wattala
On a sunny April day,
we left Sri Lanka to visit Malaysia, a beautiful urban country in South-East Asia. Its magnificent buildings, aquariums, shopping malls and adventure parks are truly attractive. What’s more Malaysia is the home of a famous landmark, the Twin Towers.
First we reached Langkawi, a gorgeous little island of Malaysia. It was like paradise. Everything was great from the culture to the amusements available. We went on a parachute ride, on a ski-jet and rode the amazing segway or hoverboard which was fun and easy to ride. The country is so clean, the food was amazing and not to forget the cable cars we rode. The cable cars were joined from the base to the top of a mountain, where we could enjoy the view of the island. It was a super journey.
Our next stop was Penang another island of Malaysia. This too was an interesting place just like Kuala Lumpur. We did a lot of shopping there. Since there was access to Kuala Lumpur on road from Penang, we left Penang the same day and reached Kuala Lumpur or KL.
KL was amazing.
Its urban culture was so interesting. Shopping was great!
We went swimming every night at our hotel. The Twin Towers was the greatest thing I remembered from our journey.
You have to buy tickets to go to the top of the Twin Towers. We stopped at the foot of the towers. I loved the Kinokuniya, a massive bookshop. We were lucky to see the dancing water fountains outside. Their bright colours were astonishing.
Some other places we visited were the Underwater World in Langkawi, a Chinese temple in Penang and the Bird Park in Kuala Lumpur. Transportation was great and we travelled in taxis, and on monorail.
