A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia by TravelPod blogger Emmaandpaul titled "The Muddy Confluence". TravelPod is a company of TripAdvisor™. Emmaandpaul’s travel blog entry: "Kuala Lumpur (which means muddy confluence) is compact enough to get around on foot, although it's sometimes a little tricky for pedestrians, we managed to walk everywhere. Shops There are hundreds of shopping malls in KL, we spent a while wandering around Times Square, which has a rollercoaster running through it and a cheap food court on the top floor. Times Square also had an enormous revolving Christmas tree and people dressed up as snowmen and reindeer. I find all of this very funny, especially as we visited on a day when the UK was covered in a blanket of snow. There were signs up wishing everyone a snowy Christmas, things would have to be very wrong with Climate Change for that to happen in KL. Colonial KL Merdeka square is where Malaysia's independence from the British was declared in 1957, Merdeka means independence and it's fitting for the Brits that the square surrounds a cricket pitch, with a pavillion on one side and a little cathedral (looks like it's been plucked from an English village) at the end. The other two sides of the square have more Malay/Moorish buildings. It was interesting to note the Islamic details incorporated into the buildings all around KL, stars in the design and the number 5 (5 tiers on the petronas towers for example ...