What a city! Kuala Lumpur was such a cool place. Indians eating their curries in little India, Chinese eating their noodles in Chinatown, and me, Maj and Anton eating Big Mac's in McDonalds........only kidding. The special dish for us in KL was the Singapore noodles, should have saved it for Singapore to be fair though. But they were so damn tasty, we had to get our share.
We decided that we would get up early on our first full day to try and get tickets for the Petronas Towers Skybridge. They give out 1,200 tickets at 8.30 every day for free, and luckily we managed to get them on our first attempt, only just though. The only times left were later on in the day (6.30 for us) but it aint nuthin but a thang. I left momentarily to head to the British High Commission to collect my brand new deluxe passport, fina-fuckin-ly! With the trouble in Bangkok preventing me from accessing the Embassy in the city centre I had my passport collected and delivered to KL. So nearly 2 months and 200 pounds later I recieve the damn thing, old passport gets the snip, and I get a RF chip keeping track of me where I am at all times, they fucking got me JB!!!
Me and Anton went to the Lake gardens on our last day to check that out. They had a deer park with some mouse deers there, and I dont know if you've ever seen them before but they are really tiny. Dont move much though. By chance we happened to bump into Gustav aswell, we chatted about the antics of the previous night and said our farewells. He had reached the end of his travels, so it sucked to be him.
Our last night we dedicated to the England boys, and had to watch the horror of an attempted save from Green. What a plonker.
We decided that we would get up early on our first full day to try and get tickets for the Petronas Towers Skybridge. They give out 1,200 tickets at 8.30 every day for free, and luckily we managed to get them on our first attempt, only just though. The only times left were later on in the day (6.30 for us) but it aint nuthin but a thang. I left momentarily to head to the British High Commission to collect my brand new deluxe passport, fina-fuckin-ly! With the trouble in Bangkok preventing me from accessing the Embassy in the city centre I had my passport collected and delivered to KL. So nearly 2 months and 200 pounds later I recieve the damn thing, old passport gets the snip, and I get a RF chip keeping track of me where I am at all times, they fucking got me JB!!!
The Petronas towers are the 4th tallest buildings in the world (after the world financial centre in Shanghai we saw about 5 months ago), standing at 451.9m, although the skybridge is only 180m off the ground. More than high enough for a fantastic ariel view of the city.
After purchasing a new camera since the old one was on its last legs and extremely low on HP we got a public bus out of the city to go see the Batu Caves, which took about an hour to reach. Batu Caves serves as one of the main Hindu Temples in the world, and can sometimes see over a million Hindu's visiting the temple at one time during the major holidays. We had a guide and bodyguard called Smith who joined us for our visit here. He was a little Hindu boy who just tagged along and kept telling us stories about the caves, he was really proud of his religion and the caves. He used a stick to fend off all the monkeys that roamed around here too, these were some brave little monkeys, nearly as vicious as the ones in Kathmandu.
That night we went to Times Square shopping mall, the biggest in south-east asia, sporting 10 floors worth of shopping outlets and also including a cinema, bowling alley, snooker hall and get this.....a theme park. With a roller coaster may I add. We bought tickets for the premier of Karate Kid, which turned out to be a good movie, though no Karate? Advertising genius. We also had a game of bowling so I had to show Maj and Anton the way of the Turkey.
On one of our nights we arranged for Nadzim, Erin, Heather and Gustav (a Swede who we met on the bus from Perhentian Islands) to go for a night out in KL. Since Nadzim is from the city he knew the good spots to visit. I had to detour everyone over to the Rennaisance Hotel so I could say hi to friend there. We had a really fun night out, even though we lost Anton and he didnt have a clue in the morning of where the hell he went. At least everyone made it back safely.
That night we went to Times Square shopping mall, the biggest in south-east asia, sporting 10 floors worth of shopping outlets and also including a cinema, bowling alley, snooker hall and get this.....a theme park. With a roller coaster may I add. We bought tickets for the premier of Karate Kid, which turned out to be a good movie, though no Karate? Advertising genius. We also had a game of bowling so I had to show Maj and Anton the way of the Turkey.
On one of our nights we arranged for Nadzim, Erin, Heather and Gustav (a Swede who we met on the bus from Perhentian Islands) to go for a night out in KL. Since Nadzim is from the city he knew the good spots to visit. I had to detour everyone over to the Rennaisance Hotel so I could say hi to friend there. We had a really fun night out, even though we lost Anton and he didnt have a clue in the morning of where the hell he went. At least everyone made it back safely.
Me and Anton went to the Lake gardens on our last day to check that out. They had a deer park with some mouse deers there, and I dont know if you've ever seen them before but they are really tiny. Dont move much though. By chance we happened to bump into Gustav aswell, we chatted about the antics of the previous night and said our farewells. He had reached the end of his travels, so it sucked to be him.
Our last night we dedicated to the England boys, and had to watch the horror of an attempted save from Green. What a plonker.
As with Thailand, our adventures in Malaysia were also unfinished. We travelled the mainland part of Malaysia also known as Malaysia Peninsula. After travelling through Indonesia we will pass through into the Borneo island part of Malaysia. We will pick our top 3 and fill you in on the travel stats once we have finished there.
Kuala Lumpur Photo Link:
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