Kuala Lumpur (Port Klang), Malaysia - (1 of 3)

We were in Kuala Lumpur (KL) in May 2023 (see 3 footprints beginning https://findpenguins.com/bruce-loves-to-travel/…), so this time here we decided not to go into KL (1.5 hour drive each way) but rather take a tour to Putrajaya, a modern master-planned city developed as a high-tech intelligent city with advanced internet, media, and digital communications center. It is therefore a very new, modern city with new housing and buildings.

This began as a place to accommodate government offices when the capital, KL, became too congested. In 2007, after its first 10 years, the population of Putrajaya was 30,000 (people working in government jobs and offices here), but is now over 120,000 (with future planning and housing to grow to over 300,000). Planned as a garden city, 38% of the area is green spaces. The first stop was the Botanical Gardens (mostly in the next post) as we passed the government offices and then finally, a visit to the Putra Mosque.

(See 2 videos - one on the welcome and one is the monkey in the tree at the Gardens)Read more