Nearby Attractions

The world's tallest twin towers (and tallest buildings in the world from 1998-2004) at 88 storeys — KL's defining skyline icon. Tickets include the 41st-floor Skybridge, the world's highest 2-storey bridge, plus the 86th-floor observation deck.

Closed: Closed most Mondays (open only the 2nd, 4th, and 5th Monday of the month)

Non-Malaysian adult rate for Skybridge + Observation Deck; Malaysian citizens pay a discounted local rate; children aged 2 and under free

A limestone hill riddled with Hindu shrine caves, guarded by a 42.7m gold statue of Lord Murugan — the tallest in Malaysia — and reached via 272 brightly-painted steps. Malaysia's biggest Thaipusam festival gathering happens here each January/February.

Closed: Open daily, no closed day

Main Temple Cave and the 272 steps are free; the separate Cave Villa and Ramayana Cave charge roughly RM15 each for foreign visitors

KL's 'Golden Triangle' — malls like Pavilion and Fahrenheit88, the Jalan Alor night food street, and the Changkat Bukit Bintang bar strip all packed into one walkable district.

The grassy square where Malaysia's flag was first raised at the stroke of independence on 31 August 1957, fronted by the Moorish-style Sultan Abdul Samad Building and a 95m flagpole — one of the tallest in the world.

A 421m telecom tower built atop the Bukit Nanas forest reserve — its hilltop perch gives an observation deck view nearly as high as the Petronas Towers', for less money and shorter queues. Also has an open-air Sky Deck and a revolving restaurant.

Malaysian citizens pay RM20; combined Sky Deck + Sky Box ticket runs from RM78 for foreign visitors

A former 1888 wet market, rebuilt in 1937 in Art Deco style and now a heritage-listed indoor bazaar of batik, pewter, and craft souvenir stalls, right next to Chinatown's Petaling Street.

Southeast Asia's largest Islamic-art collection — some 10,000+ textiles, ceramics, manuscripts, and architectural models across 12 galleries under a turquoise-tiled dome, next to the National Mosque and Perdana Botanical Garden.

Closed: Closed only on Hari Raya Aidilfitri and Hari Raya Aidiladha

Students and Malaysian senior citizens pay RM10

KL's Chinatown since the 1880s tin-mining boom — a covered street of hawker food, souvenir stalls, and (heads up) a well-known concentration of counterfeit-goods vendors; see this country's scam-type list.