Lunch Federal Hotel, KL



Kuala Lumpur was an hour bus ride from Port Klang where our ship docked at a new cruise terminal. The contrast with the many other cities we had visited in Viet Nam, Thailand, Cambodia, and Indonesia was startling. KL as it is called is a rapidly growing, well organized, clean city with a large middle class. Lots of manufacturing creating jobs. Freeways to accomodate the growing number of cars. They have their own car, the Proton which is cheap by their standards. Many new government funded middle class housing developments creating a vast suberbia.
On our tour, we had a fabulous buffet lunch at the Federal Hotel, one of a Malaysian chain. Again, they are proud of their heterogenous ethnic population but have a constitutional monarchy which seems to be doing well in promoting the economy.