Trees and Monkeys

A Night in KL

We had a nice date in Kuala Lumpur.

Sitting in the restaurant on the 33rd floor of Traders Hotel, we had a phenomenal view of the PETRONAS Twin Towers in the background.

The Towers were the tallest buildings in the world until 2004, when Taipei 101 took over the title. There are 88 stories, and 32,000 windows. They cost US $1.2 billion to build and the sky-bridge is at the 41st and 42nd level, it is 58.4m (192ft) long and weighs 750 tons. The height of the Towers is 451.9m (1483ft), from street level. The Twins were designed by Argentine-American architect César Pelli.

In August 2009, French climber Alain Robert, was fined $2000 ringgit (660 CAD) by a Malaysian court for successfully scaling the nation's tallest building. He completed the climb with his bare hands in less than two hours. A video of the climb is available on Youtube.