Product Description

The Globetrotter Best Of Kuala Lumpur is an attractive, handy pocket guide to the popular destination and is ideal for making the most of a short visit. With its small format and foldout maps it is perfect if travelers want to carry a guide with them wherever they go. The book features well-presented, to-the-point sections of the highlights of the city and region, places of interest, activities, accommodations, where to eat out, entertainment, and excursions. It features activities for children, travel tips, a generic index, and a sites index. The text entries are cross-referenced with the foldout maps, which include city plans, public transport, and archeological site plans where relevant.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1042859 in Books
• Published on: 2005-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 96 pages

From the Back Cover
Practical, informative and user-friendly, the Best Of Kuala Lumpur offers visitors the highlights of the city in a concise format, with fold our mapping and a handy directory of places to tour, stay, eat, shop and relax.

About the Author
Resident in England, Helen Oon was born in Malaysia and returns to her native country each year. She has considerable experience in organizing tours to the country. In addition, she has written about Malaysia for publications including the Eastern and Orient Express Magazine and is author of Globetrotter Travel Guide to Singapore.

Customer Reviews

Useful Guide , Not Perfect
The size made it easy to carry around, and it had enough details and information to prove useful for a 2 or 3 day trip through KL, which is a real gem and interesting city, with its relative prosperity and modernity, mix of cultures and religions, and some interesting sites.

The maps are adequate but not stellar and provide little detail out of the key neighborhoods, so it will take a bit to navigate the city, which is not laid out in anything as convenient as a grid. Although the monorail and taxi make it relatively easy to get around the main areas, this guide and its maps will prove less effective for exploring off the beaten path.

I haven't seen any great guides for KL, so this "good enough" will have to do, and hook up with a local for dining / eating / shopping / exploring more than the standard downtown / Petronas Towers / key tourist sites.

Very handy and up-to-date
On a trip (back) to Malaysia in Feb 06, this guide came in very handy for a lot of locations in the big city. A very good reference that I carried around.

Accurate too - which was a plus.

good little book
This inexpensive book is packed with information, photographs, and ideas and is well organized. I won't be able to really test it for several months until my trip to KL but at this point I don't regret buying it.