Handpicked experience · Kuala Lumpur
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Two evening hours under a skyline that includes a tower built around a hundred-year-old tree and the world's second-tallest building, named for a stadium.
See a number of popular locations in Kuala Lumpur and join this hop-on and hop-off trip of the city!
See the bustling metropolitan city at night and avoid the daytime crowd!
Be transported comfortably on a double-decker bus with an English-speaking tour guide.
You'll truly have a night in Kuala Lumpur you'll never forget when you join this exciting adventure of the city!
Evening skyline views set up for night photography
Hop-off and rejoin at central stops within the service hours
A compact loop that fits into an evening
A central route with little time spent in transit
Elevated seating and large windows for after-dark views
A two-hour evening circuit of Kuala Lumpur on an open hop-on hop-off bus, taking in the city lights from an upper deck with the option to get off at central stops and rejoin a later service.
A short, fixed loop through the centre after dark, designed around what the city looks like when it is lit rather than around getting you anywhere in particular. The upper deck and large windows are the product. One thing to plan for: on a two-hour evening circuit the last bus of the night comes round sooner than people expect, so check the final departure before you step off at a stop, or you will be finding your own way back.
The tall spire on the hill west of the centre is the KL Tower, and it stands where it does because of a tree. When the site was cleared in the 1990s a mature jelutong estimated at over a hundred years old stood in the way. Rather than fell it, the developers re-routed the access road, walled the trunk in a retaining structure and built the tower around it. The tree is still there, at the foot of a 421-metre communications mast.
The enormous tower that now dominates every view is Merdeka 118, and at 679 metres it is the second-tallest building in the world. Its name and its location are the point: it rises directly beside Stadium Merdeka, the arena where independence was declared in 1957 and where the crowd shouted the word merdeka — freedom — seven times. A stadium that seats a few thousand now sits at the foot of the tower built to commemorate it.
The floodlit building with the copper domes and the clock tower is the Sultan Abdul Samad Building, finished in 1897 for the colonial administration in a Moorish revival style that was invented, more or less, for British Malaya. It faces an open green that was once the cricket ground of the colonial club, and the flagpole standing on it is among the tallest anywhere — raised where the Union flag came down in 1957.
Night photography from a moving bus through glass is difficult; the upper open deck, where the route has one, is worth the seat. Anything you go into after hopping off has its own admission, and food and drink are your own. Rain is common in the early evening and the upper deck empties quickly when it starts.
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What the fare covers, and what to budget for separately.
The practical detail, and the answers people actually ask for.
Yes, but watch the schedule. On a two-hour night circuit the final service passes earlier than most people assume, so confirm the last departure before leaving the bus.
Because of a tree. A jelutong estimated at over a hundred years old stood on the site, so the access road was re-routed and the trunk enclosed in a retaining structure rather than felled.
Merdeka 118, at 679 metres the second-tallest building in the world. It stands beside Stadium Merdeka, where independence was declared in 1957.
Merdeka means freedom. It was the word the crowd shouted seven times at the stadium next door on the day independence was proclaimed.
The old colonial secretariat, finished in 1897 and now floodlit at night. Its clock has kept time over the square through a change of flag and everything since.
It is a short central loop by design — two hours of lit skyline rather than a comprehensive tour. It fits into an evening rather than filling one.
No. Anything you enter after hopping off is admitted separately, as are food and drinks.
Early-evening rain is common and the open upper deck clears fast. Bring a light rain layer if you want to keep the best seats.