Day 106. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Skyscrapin'

Opted to save a few pennies and take the slow train up to KL today. An eight and a half hour crawl, but pleasant enough as it gave us the chance to see a sizable chunk of the lush rainforest that dominates the southern end of the Malaysian peninsula.

We've now decided to visit the Cameron Highlands after all, so it makes sense to break the journey with a couple of days in the capital.

Arrived late afternoon, and after the obligatory bowl of noodles, headed across town to see the famous Petronas Towers at dusk.

And what a pair of whoppers they are too.

Until trumped recently by some monolith in Taiwan, they were easily the world's tallest buildings, coming in at a neckache inducing 1483 feet.

For us, though, it's not so much their enormity that impresses, as the sheer beauty and bravery of the design. On first impression they seem like a pair of oversized church spires. Look a little closer however, and you begin to notice the geometric shapes common to Islamic architecture, it then becomes blindingly obvious that the Towers are much closer in form to the minarets of a mosque than the steeple of any church.

We like the Petronas Towers very much and are sure Mohammad would approve.