What are the shopping options like in Kuala Lumpur?

Kuala Lumpur is a modern city where people can enjoy a varied experience regardless of their interest. You can take day trips from Kuala Lumpur to visit Hindu temples, taste the local food, and enjoy the beautiful nature. There are plenty of malls if retail therapy is something you are interested in. People are friendly and speak English well.

Kuala Lumpur is a vibrant city, with a melting pot of cultures, faiths, sights and experiences – you’ll never get bored of what it has to offer. It’s a city unlike any other where you can find areas of slow-paced traditional life like Kampung Baru, to pockets of tropical rainforests for hiking, to the bustling centre of offices and skyscrapers.

Healthcare is of amazing quality and price (Kuala Lumpur is in fact a hotspot for medical tourism), with a fairly fast turnaround time. Public transport in the city centre is very accessible, but scarcer elsewhere thus it is a very car-dependent city (though Grab, the Uber equivalent, is abundant and cheap).

Kuala Lumpur offers a multicultural and multilingual living environment. You will hear English, Malay, Cantonese, Mandarin, and Tamil among the languages spoken by the locals. As you walk along the streets of Bukit Bintang you get to experience the various cultures of Southeast Asia, East and West Asia. If you are into food, try out the “mamak” restaurants that offer Malaysianized Tamil-Muslim cuisine at bargain prices.

A cultural melting pot with some of the world’s cheapest 5-star hotels, fantastic shopping, even better food and some of the wonders of nature in an hour’s drive away, this vibrant city has a lot to give to any tourist. Kuala Lumpur is at the confluence of Sungai Gombak and Sungai Klang, and probably, that’s how it got its name, which literally means “muddy confluence” in Malay language.