Butterflies in Kuala Lumpur
“They should put a hotel in here,” Lisa said as we walked through the Butterfly Park in Kuala Lumpur. I wondered how Kuala Lumpur Malaysia hotels would handle housekeeping in a hotel with butterflies fluttering all over the place, but it sure would be a nice effect. the last butterfly park we saw was in Tempe, Arizona in the spring. The Botanical Gardens there had the annual butterfly enclosure, a big mesh enclosed outdoor room with thousands of butterflies fluttering all over. The effect is quite magical. They would gently land on your arm or on your nose and one is transfixed by the delicate insect perched so bravely on your limb. The same applied here in Kuala Lumpur, bur here it was quite a bit bigger, the tropics more conducive to butterflies than the desert of the Sonoran variety. Here in Kuala Lumpur’s Butterfly Park there are over six thousand butterflies of more than one hundred twenty five species. Of course, the habitat of this park is well suited to keeping butterflies. A gazebo makes for a nice place to take in the site of the multi colored insects floating gently about the meshed in space, where ponds and flowering plants keep the butterflies happy. I glad I left my tripod back at the hotel as a small sign read that tripods were not allowed. I guess that would mean a mono pod as well. A museum attached to the park gives info on butterfly habits, life cycles, migration, and anything could want to know about butterflies. One thing I did not find out was how the butterfly came to be called butterflies. Anyway, the butterflies are bred here too, and you can buy a framed butterfly in the gift shop. Meanwhile, there was no admission to the Butterfly Park, and that was a blessing.
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