Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park

The Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park website stated:

This is the largest butterfly garden in the world spanning over 80,000 sq ft of landscaped garden with over 5,000 live butterflies, exotic plants, butterfly-host plants and ferns. Other attractions are Japanese koi fish, fresh water turtles, live insects and a museum with a large collection of butterflies and insects from around the world. – website

With that in mind and the various images shared on the world wide web, we descended into this place with great anticipation. A few years ago I visited Penang Butterfly Park and was really blown away by the beauty and varied species of these beautiful winged insects. It was impressive and truly an experience to walk into a lush, tropical greenery with mist blowing on my face and butterflies everywhere. As a result of this experience, I can’t wait to show off to Shane the butterfly species we have in Malaysia.

We were the first guests to arrive to the Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park. Apparently very few staffs had showed up to work, including the butterflies for instance!

First there were no monkeys in Batu Caves. Now there were hardly any butterflies except the ones stuck dead under the glass exhibits!!! Come on! What in the world happened here?

The plants were beautiful and lush. There were many Japanese koi and they swam towards Shane when he walked over to the edge of the pond. They were pretty with vivid coloring. However we didn’t pay admissions to see fishes. The entire place looked dead, as if no life force has entered this area for a long time. The few butterflies we saw were far away, fluttering aimlessly in the air.

It was a big disappointment because…

The staffs couldn’t tell us why there weren’t more butterflies around. The only highlight of this trip was seeing a butterfly landed on Shane’s hand.

I should have known better than to make any effort at all to visit the Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park because firstly, their website is ancient. This first impression should have already warned me about the entire attitude of the company. Secondly, there were no visitors! I may be wrong. Google search showed us many nice photos. However, based on our experience I wouldn’t recommend anyone visiting this place.

If you truly want to enjoy butterflies, I suggest traveling to Penang and visit its butterfly park there. Click to visit the Penang Butterfly Park (Entopia). I will definitely plan a trip with Shane to Penang just to proof that I am right. We wasted an expensive fare ride with Grab Car from Subang Jaya to Kuala Lumpur because of the misleading information on their website. If you still plan on going since you are in Kuala Lumpur, I suggest giving them a call first. Their website contact number stated: 603-26934799

Below is a short video of Shane’s take on Kuala Lumpur Butterfly Park: