Putrajaya and I-City

Today, Wearn's friend Audrey and her boyfriend Barry picked us up and showed us around two famous places in Malaysia. The first was Putrajaya (Malaysia's Washington DC) and the second was Shah Alam, a major industrial center.

Seri Wawasan Bridge

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The weather wasn't so good for taking pictures, so I got most of them whilst sitting in the car...

The Federal Treasury, just because I'm an econ nerd

Likewise for the Ministry of Finance

Putra Mosque

The first thing we did when we got to Putrajaya, actually, was to check out the Agriculture Heritage Park, a very nice orchard and park, with an eatery inside. We hung out here until the weather turned sour.

Wearn and Pomegranates, near the entrance to the orchard

Wearn on one of the orchard's walkways; Barry in the distance>

Audrey with some stylish cempedak headphones; normally the fruit is a bit bigger than an American football

Some groundskeepers snatched some rambutan and offered us some to keep us quiet (you're not supposed to pick the fruit)

After Putrajaya, we headed toward Shah Alam and I-City. See if you can figure out why I-City is famous:

Audrey and Wearn with I-City lights in the background

Wearn and I with neon cacti

Fireworks!

If you said, "Because there's a freakin' ton of lights!" then you are correct. They have, literally, and entire orchard's worth of these electric trees.