Our first stop in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia was the beautiful Batu Caves. The caves are minor attraction compared to the spectacular Lord Murugan statue right outside the entrance.
The 140 ft Golden statue is the world’s tallest Lord Murugan statue and is breathtakingly beautiful. The perfect muse for a photographer, the statue stands facing the beautiful city of Kuala Lumpur.
I tried a lot of panorama shots during my trip. So far most of the photos I have checked have come out looking good :) Here are a couple of panoramas from Genting: Highest Resolution Image Highest Resolution Image Ps: Flickr doesnt load images larger than 1025px in dimension(any one side) and panoramas dont look … Read more
The next stop in our tour of SE Asia was Kuala Lumpur. We were to spend two days at the beautiful Genting Highlands Resort and two days at KL.
We arrived at KL via Singapore on 22rd and set off immediately on a 3hr drive to Genting Highlands. This was my first experience with a country so drastically different from India that I was almost in awe the entire four days we were there.
As a young boy, I had the privilege of listening to a lot of stories from my grandmother. There were a couple of stories that stood out for me, for the simple reason that I listened them the most.
One was the story of Chandrahasa. The special liking to this story wasn’t coz it was my namesake but for a fact that it had all the amazing ingredients that make a great period story. I do have to give the story credit as it gave me a lot of ideas and concepts that slowly built into my persona.
The first stop on the 12 day vacation was on an island also known as the Emerald Isle. The stay at Colombo was not a prerequisite on any of our travel plans but since the packaged tour was organized in collaboration with Sri Lankan Airlines, a mandatory one day stop was made on the Island.
Honestly one day is not enough time to get an opinion about any place, let alone a country. But Sri Lanka reminded me a lot of South India. The people, places, climate and hell even the accent seemed awfully similar :P