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| CNY Decor Berjaya Times Square Jalan Imbi, Bukit Bintang Kuala Lumpur |
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| CNY Decor Lot 10 Mall Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur |
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| Lot 10 Hutong Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur |
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| CNY Decor MyTOWN Jalan Cochrane, Kuala Lumpur |
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| Peru The Great Inca Road Exhibition, 1-Utama Shopping Centre |
" In traveling, idealism is fine; but if turns into reality within your own means & resources, you have one way or another enriched your LIFE "
CNY Day 15 (Chap Goh Meh in Hokkien or Yuan Xiao in Mandarin) Saturday Feb 24 2024 - marks the end of the auspicious Chinese New Year season, an important day for Chinese Hokkien in Malaysia especially in Penang, Klang & Sarawak towns where there are more Hokkiens, a few of these traditional & common practices were observed in a predominantly Chinese Hokkien area ie cultural activities (arts & crafts), roasted piglets praying & cutting ceremony in homes / temples / clans & associations, Chinese opera stage performances in suburban / small towns & villages, setting off firecrackers usually in the evening or at night, acrobatic lion dance on stilt performances in shopping malls or business establishments, live bands & fire juggling shows, young people tossing of mandarin oranges in lakes or rivers to find true love or good fortune (Chinese version of Valentine's Day) under a luminous & bright full moon (hopefully) - thus a merry ending for this CNY Lunar Dragon Year of 2024 !
The next Chinese Zodiac Dragon year will be in 2036 (based on a repeating 12 year cycle) ! Hence my reason for visiting as many shopping malls (a total of 18), Chinese temples (6) & touristy places in Kuala Lumpur & Klang Valley (8) in this CNY Dragon year of 2024 (make hay while the sun shines & making the 2024 Dragon year the most memorable one !) as in 12 years time, I am in my twilight years, unlikely I will have the mental & physical strength to do this act one more time !
Shopping Malls in Kuala Lumpur / Selangor
- Aeon Big Subang Jaya
- Berjaya Times Square
- Exchange TRX Mall
- Gardens Mall
- IKEA Damansara
- IPC Shopping Centre
- Lalaport Bukit Bintang City Centre
- Lot 10 Mall
- Megah Rise Mall
- Mid Valley Mall
- MyTOWN Shopping Centre
- One Utama Shopping Centre
- Pavilion Damansara Heights
- Pavilion Kuala Lumpur
- Subang Parade
- Sunway Pyramid
- Suria KLCC
- The Curve
Chinese temples in Kuala Lumpur / Selangor
- Ban Siew Keng Temple, Jenjarom
- Cempaka Buddhist Lodge, PJ
- Fo Guang Shan Dong Zen Temple, Jenjarom
- Kau Ong Yau Temple Ampang
- Sin Ann Meow Cheras
- Thean How Temple, KL
- Bukit Bintang
- Cultural Centre, Jenjarom
- Kasturi Walk
- KLREX
- Kwai Chai Hong
- Merdeka Tower
- Petaling Street (Chinatown)
- Petronas Twin Towers
- Vietnam (Hanoi, SAPA, Lao Cai, Haiphong, Tam Coc, Hue, Danang & Hoi An)
- Indonesia (Surabaya, Semarang, Yogyakarta, Malang, Batu & Probolingo)
- Thailand (Betong)
- China (Guilin, Yangshuo, Longsheng, Lipu, Hezhou, Zhaoqing & Guangzhou)
- India (Amritsar, Bikaner, Jaisalmer, Jodhpur, Udaipur, Jaipur, Mumbai, Goa, Hampi, Bengaluru, Mysuru, Ooty, Mettupalayam, Coimbatore & Tiruchirappalli)
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| Ba Na Hills, Danang Vietnam (Feb 2023) |
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| Malang, Java, Indonesia May 2023 |
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| Betong, Thailand (July 2023) |
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| Guangzhou, China (Nov 2023) |
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| Mumbai, India (Dec 2023) |
For this auspicious CNY day (Chap Goh Meh), using LRT & MRT train rides, I made a visit to Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur & visited the Berjaya Times Square, Lot 10 Mall, Lot 10 Hutong & the commercial & entertainment district of Jalan Bukit Bintang, a famous & bustling street, most visited by local & international tourists ! After the Bukit Bintang visit, I took a MRT & visited MyTOWN mall, Jalan Cochrane, Kuala Lumpur.
CNY Day 15 Saturday Feb 24 2024 - my solo visit to Berjaya Times Square, Jalan Imbi, Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur by LRT from SS15, Subang Jaya > Pasar Seni (transit) > Bukit Bintang; one of the Malaysia's largest shopping malls.
CNY Day 15 Saturday Feb 24 2024 - Lot 10 Mall, Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur - an established, 5 storey mall with eateries, entertainment & retail stores carrying global brands.
Cityscape of Bukit Bintang, Kuala Lumpur - a well known shopping & entertainment district of Kuala Lumpur
Day 14 Friday Feb 23 2024 - Exhibition of Peru The Great Inca Road in 1 Utama Shopping Centre (Ground Floor LUXE), very interesting & informative about The Great Inca Road system & the various hiking trails & Machu Picchu (UNESCO World Heritage site), an Incan Citadel set high in the Andes Mountains in Peru, above the Urubamba River valley, built in the 15ht century & later and abandoned, it's is renowned for its sophisticated dry-stone walls that fuse huge blocks without the use of mortar, intriguing buildings that play on astronomical alignments & panoramic views, its exact former use remains a mystery !
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| Malaysia > Peru 19,237km by Air |
On show was a banner promoting a 18 day 15 night tour package to Original South America (flights included) offered by a local travel agency ie Sedunia Travel.Com costs Rm31,040 (US$6,450) so get ready to fly to Machu Piccu, Peru & fulfil your dream of seeing an once in a life time visit to this UNESCO World Heritages Site or start your planning now to undertake a free & easy visit to Peru following the various hiking trails to explore The Great Inca Road - to complete this longest Inca Road system starting from Pasto (Colombia) to Cusco (Peru) & Talca (Chile), the total distance by car is approx 5,641km comparing to 5,553km if travelling by car from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia > Beijing, China ! ...... plenty of challenges & bring along a stash of US dollars to pay for your public transport, food & hostels accommodation or any hidden costs (visa fee, yellow fever vaccination etc) if you are travelling to this South American country far away from my home place, Malaysia - a distance of 19,237km by air from Kuala Lumpur > Peru ! It will continue to be in my pipe dream but dream has no expiry date ! But in the meantime to satisfy my curiosity on Machu Piccu, I will have to do a virtual travelling relying on YouTube to admire & appreciate this great wonder of mankind !
