Putrajaya

Putrajaya might not sound like an interesting place, it is the Malaysian Federal Governments administration centre and it was only designed in the 1990's.

But… it is a whole city designed and built since the 1990's. It is so different to the rest of Malaysia that it was well worth a look. It has wide roads and footpaths, there is a man-made lake at the centre and there are gardens everywhere. Putrajaya is about 20 minutes away from KL, once there we hired a taxi for a couple of hours to take us around the city as the local public transport is still being put into place (this was a great idea as it was a super hot day and after 5 minutes of photo taking we were thankful of the air-con blast). I will cut the waffle today and let the photos do the talking.

Aimee enjoying the breeze on the bridge

It was designed as a garden city and there really are lots of gardens

One of the seven bridges that cross the lake

Even the skyscrapers have been designed to be different from each other

The national convention centre that looks like a landed flying saucer

The lake and more parkland

The water sports grandstand

Two of the (very fancy looking) hotels 

Mosque on the water front, it was huge!

Lots of the building had beautiful minarets

Eat your heart out Queen of England this is the Prime Ministers residence