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Kuala Lumpur Tower and the Petronas
Kuala Lumpur Tower stands on top of Bukit Nanas (Pineapple Hill) at an altitude of 421 meters, is the fourth tallest telecommunication tower after in the world after the CN Tower in Toronto, Canada (553 meters), Ostankino Tower in Moscow, Russia (540 meters) and the Oriental Pearl Tower in Shanghai, China (468 meters). Kuala Lumpur Tower was built to improve the telecommunications and broadcasting and as a symbol of development in Kuala Lumpur.
Kuala Lumpur Tower was built in October 1991 and opened to the public on July 23, 1996 and inaugurated by the prime minister of Malaysia at the time, Mahathir Mohamad on October 1, 1996. Visitors can enjoy the beautiful scenery at an altitude of 276 meters while listening Audio Video Tour in multiple languages. I have time to take photos and Petronas Tower skyscraper buildings of Kuala Lumpur Tower using a digital camera.
Other place to visit is the KLCC which is one of the shopping center under the Petronas Towers. Petronas Tower is a trade mark of the city of Kuala Lumpur. To take photos Petronas Towers as a whole, we must go to a place about a few hundred yards from the Petronas Towers.
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