Kuala Lumpur Tower

About Kuala Lumpur Tower

The Kuala Lumpur Tower, colloquially referred to as KL Tower, is a 421-meter-tall (1,381-foot) telecommunication tower in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It is the world's seventh-tallest telecommunication tower. It features an antenna which increases its height to 421 metres (1,381 ft). The roof of the pod is at 336.5 metres (1,104 ft). The rest of the tower below has a stairwell and an elevator to reach the upper area, which also contains a revolving restaurant, providing diners with a panoramic view of the city.

The Kuala Lumpur Tower (Menara Kuala Lumpur), colloquially KL Tower, is a 421-metre telecommunication tower, the seventh-tallest in the world and the tallest in Malaysia and Southeast Asia. Completed on 1 March 1995 and opened on 1 October 1996, it stands on the wooded Bukit Nanas hill in the city centre, which makes its observation decks at 276 metres the highest viewpoint in Kuala Lumpur open to the public, roughly a hundred metres higher than the observation deck of the Petronas Twin Towers. The roof of the pod is at 336.5 metres, and it contains a revolving restaurant with a full panorama of the city. The tower has a distinctive religious role as the Islamic falak observatory from which the crescent moons of Ramadan, Shawwal and Dhu al-Hijjah are sighted to fix the start of the fast and the two Eids, and an annual race sends participants up its stairs to the top. The upper levels comprise an indoor observation deck and an open-air Sky Deck with separate or combined tickets; at the base a small cinema screens a free film on the tower's construction, and family attractions around it include an animal zone, a Malaysian cultural village exhibition and pony rides. According to Wikivoyage, when it is not raining there is little reason to visit the lower indoor deck, since the outdoor deck gives the same view and better.

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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia