Malaysia 2010

Visit to peninsular Malaysia, Saturday 19th June 2010 to Wednesday 30th, for the IPCC workshop on sea-level rise and ice-sheet instabilities, Kuala Lumpur, 21st-24th June.

Images are © Jonathan Gregory 2010.

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Views from the Hilton Hotel, Kuala Lumpur
The workshop took place in this hotel.

Hilton Hotel

Sunset and Lake Gardens

National Museum (foreground) and the Golden Triangle (downtown); the blue dome and minaret on the hill are the Planetarium; the tallest building is the Menara KL (i.e. KL Tower), the building with the wedge-shaped top is the Maybank Building, the white building near the middle is the Dayabumi Complex

View from E to S over KL Sentral station; monorail terminal is near the middle

Kuala Lumpur

Islamic Arts Museum

Postcard of jar from Lucknow

Postcard of model of mosque, sent to Gabriel for his birthday 2024

Masjid Negara (National Mosque)

Domes of the KTM (railway company) building from behind

KTM building

Kuala Lumpur (old) railway station

Back of the Kuala Lumpur railway station

Menara KL, Maybank Building, Petronas Tower(s)

View south of LRT train and Sungai (River) Klang at Pasar Seni

View north along Sungai Klang, Dayabumi Complex on L

Klang bus station

In Chinatown near the Bangkok Bank bus station

Jalan Hang Kasturi near the Central Market

Masjid (Mosque) Jamek

Merdeka (Independence) Square and the Sultan Abdul Samad Building

Old Public Works building and Dayabumi Complex from Merdeka Square

Sultan Abdul Samad Building and old Post Office from Merdeka Square

Old Post Office, old Public Works building and Dayabumi Complex from Merdeka Square

Petronas Towers

Views of Kuala Lumpur from Menara KL

Petronas Towers

Foreground: Maybank Building on L, Dayabumi Complex on R; middle, Islamic Arts Museum (white with blue dome) and Masjid Negara; 2/3 back, Hilton and Le Meridien hotels

Merdeka Square

Travelling to Taman Negara (National Park), Friday 25th
Phil Woodworth, John and Majnun Church and I spent the weekend at Kuala Tahan, the headquarters of this national park in the tropical rainforest, staying at the Mutiara resort. We travelled up the Sungai Tembeling from Kuala Tembeling to Kuala Tahan.

Phil

Majnun and John

A similar boat to ours

Kuala Tahan (confluence of Sungai Tahan and Sungai Tembeling) seen from the Mutiara resort

Views of Sungai Tembeling

View into Sungai Tahan at the confluence

Canopy walkway, Saturday 26th

(unidentified) flower

Views of and from the canopy walkway, which is suspended from tualang trees, the tallest species in the forest

Columns of ants

Walks up Bukit (hill) Teresek (344 m) and Bukit Indah (563 m)

View E from Bukit Teresek over the Tembeling valley

View from W to N from Bukit Teresek, towards Gunung Tahan, which is in clouds

A clearing in the forest caused by a fallen tree

View of Sungai Tembeling from Bukit Indah

Tualang (I think)

Lata Berkoh, Sunday 27th
Lata Berkoh is some rapids on the Sungai Tahan. Phil and I took the boat upriver to this popular and beautiful spot.

Phil

Huge trees with red flowers (what species?) grow out obliquely from the banks to overhang the river

Sungai Tahan

Iguana

Sungai Tahan where we moored for the walk to Lata Berkoh

Lata Berkoh

Batu Caves, Tuesday 29th
Batu Caves is a huge natural cavern in the limestone hills a few km to the north of Kuala Lumpur, and a place of Hindu worship.