Blog posts about Malaysia.

In order to get to Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, you need to make your way to Kuala Lumpur’s “Little India” neighborhood, driving past chai wallas and restaurants advertising tandoori chicken.

When we were researching and preparing to begin our slow-travel lifestyle, we read about a lot of world travellers who like to have their annual health screenings done overseas. A number of cities around the world offer this service, and the one that kept coming up was a hospital here in Kuala Lumpur called Prince Court Medical Centre.

Unlike Thailand and Vietnam, I had zero expectations of Malaysia. I wasn’t familiar with the cuisine, I hadn’t seen it portrayed in tv or movies, it never came up in history or art classes. When we arrived in Kuala Lumper, though, I was immediately impressed by this large multicultural city.

Kuala Lumpur is amazing. No other place we’ve visited in Southeast Asia feels like KL does. The city itself is huge with 2.1M residents in the city proper with something like 8M in the metro area. The metropolitan area is sprawled out in a way that would feel extremely familiar to anyone who’s been to one of the big cities in the US.