The name literally means "where two muddy rivers meet", but everyone calls KL.

The capital of Malaysia is kind of the middle of 800 ponds and malarial swamps, at the confluence of the Klang and Gombak rivers. There were layers of tin that attracted legions of adventurers in China. KL soon became a melting pot of easy wealth, violence and depravity, that "the Kuala Impure" described by Jean Cocteau, among brothels and opium dens.
But the current reality is quite different: the KL today is a city of lights and flower gardens, skyscrapers (Petronas Towers are the tallest in the world), companies "hi-tech" and elevated highways, with a huge new airport , built in 1998. Are also the ancient palaces, mosques white stucco and bicycle rickshaw, Peeping in heavy traffic.