We are tied up at Boustead Cruise Center, Port Kelang. Port Kelang is located on the Straits of Malacca which run between Indonesia and Malaysia. Port Kelang services the major city of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, and the administrative capital of Putrajaya. Both cities are about 40 miles from the port. We picked a ship’s tour to the City of Putrajaya for our day’s outing.
The Cruise Center is very new and well outfitted. It has a large number of small shops, cash exchange, etc. Best of all, it has free WIFI in one of its halls. The roads are good, the bus is new and our guide is a retired oil executive who speaks excellent English.
He tells us that Putrajaya is a new city, constructed on an old coffee plantation in the last twenty years. The reason for a new city? To reduce the time to get to work for all the government workers. The government buildings are located around a large lake or lagoon, which had to be dug out to create the lake. It had the feel of Disney World just without all the people. It is Saturday, no one working, and most families were off at other entertainment spots. There is an amusement park beside the lake with a number of rides and a helium balloon to take people a couple of hundred feet up in the air.
Our first stop was to see some of the government buildings, the Justice Department, the Parliament Building, the executive offices, and the Office of the Prime Minister. Next to the executive offices is a large red mosque. The largest company in Malaysia is an oil company and guess who donated the money for the mosque. The lake is crossed by a number of bridges, some with two levels, road and light rail. Another bridge is completed except it is not connected to land on either end. It is for the light rail system which has not been built since there are not yet enough people living in the city to make it cost effective.
The final event of the day was a boat ride around the lake so we could get a different view of all the things we had seen from the bus. This last part was also in the rain. Luckily, the boat was enclosed and we all arrived back at the dock, dry. The ride back to the port was quiet with our guide answering questions as they came up.
Back at the Cruise Center both Sandra and I did some serious shopping. I even bought a pair of tan short. Also, while Sandra shopped, I was on the internet with the free WIFI. Walking back to the ship, we say another couple working on a tablet. We asked where they were getting the signal. There was a small high end cruise ship tied up next to ours. It had an unrestricted WIFI signal. We went onto the QE to our cabin. I then logged onto the small ship from our balcony using my laptop computer. Got a bunch of stuff updated in a very short period of time.
I AM HAVING SOME DIFFICULTY LOADING PHOTOS WHILE AT SEA. BE PATIENT. THANK YOU. Allen
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| Cruise Terminal, Port Kelang |
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| Justice Building, Putrajaya |
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| Justice Building |
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| Main Plaza with Government Buildings |
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| Arch between two Government Buildings |
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| Amusement Balloon Ride |
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| Balloon almost down |
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| Executive Building |
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| Red Mosque |
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| Convention Center, Putrajaya |
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| Office Buildings |
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| Older Residence |
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| Red Mosque and Excutive Building |
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