Cheras, Kuala Lumpur
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- For the Selangor side of the same town, refer Cheras, Selangor.
Cheras is a suburb of Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia. The township is located to the south-east of Kuala Lumpur. Cheras is also adjacent to Ampang to the north and Kajang to the south, both of which are major cities within the metropolitan area of Kuala Lumpur.
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[edit] Sports facilities
Cheras played host to the 1995 SEA games, therefore housing many international standard sports facilities and stadiums, including the Tun Razak Football stadium.
[edit] Hotels
Cheras is ideal for tourists and itinerant executives looking for accommodation that doesn't come with the urban bustle, but still accessible from the city centre.
Hotel Caliber, located along MRR2 or Middle Ring Road in Cheras, offers 132 comfortable, reasonably priced, and tastefully furnished rooms. It also has a restaurant, KTV, conference room, Wi-Fi services, and health spa.
[edit] Transportation
Cheras hosts several LRT stations. On the Star LRT Line, the Cheras station is located in Jalan Ikan Emas.The Tun Razak Rail interchange is also connected to the KLIA through the KLIA Transit, a 20 minute journey. There are also a number of buses that goes through Cheras. Major highways in Cheras include Jalan Cheras and Jalan Cheras-Kajang.
[edit] Shopping
Several local shopping centres were established in Cheras with varying success, they include Leisure Mall, Connaught Market Centre (Giant Hypermarket), Carrefour Cheras, Jaya Jusco, UE3 (Uncang Emas), Phoenix Plaza (which was opened in 1995 by film star Jackie Chan) and Hero Hyper Market, located at Taman Tasik Permaisuri and with the most recent one, Jusco(Cheras Selatan)situated near Belakong. There are many shop houses, street markets and weekend markets all over the Cheras suburban estates. The pasar malam or night market is filled with pirated goods such as DVDs and counterfeit branded fashion attire. The pasar malam is always crowded. Bintang Walk is in KL and this pasar malam shall be Penguin Walk. Usually pasar malam is the source for oriental hawker food, but for this particular pasar malam it is hard to find any; where it is dominated by stalls selling fashion accessories and other unusual and useless goods such as a "magic" wallet that increases the chances of dropping the money that is kept in it.
Cheras is also the home to the longest pasar malam in Malaysia at Taman Connaught.
[edit] Education
Cheras is home to the UCSI University-College. It is situated in Taman Connaught.
[edit] Food
Each Taman (Garden, or housing estate) in Cheras has its own designated hawker center. Food offered in the area includes bak kut teh, seafood, assam laksa, "De Mou" and Thai food.
[edit] External links
Kuala Lumpur travel guide from Wikitravel
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