So after a nice 12 hour flight from Auckland we arrived at our first stop Kuala Lumpur or KL - after getting a train, having our fingerprints scanned and our visa's approved we collected our bags.
We got a taxi and headed to our hotel (which was about 60kms away) in the city centre.
Once there it was very nice but we had a small problem, our room wouldn't be ready until 3pm!!
We tried to walk around the city for a while but 36 degrees and 90% humidity was too much for me so I sat in the reception and waited in the air con while Leanne and Bridger continued to walk around the place.
After checking in we all had a well needed shower and a nap then hit the streets in search of some local food. We hit the jackpot and ate at a very nice street side restaurant and had a couple of beers - only to find out that beer costs more than a meal in KL!
We walked around the night markets and saw all the fake clothes, bags and football shirts.
Oh did I mention that our hotel used to be a nightclub - strange but true.
After a good nights sleep and a very nice but strange take on a full English breakfast, we then caught the metro to the awesome Petronas towers but it was still way too hot after coming from NZ and it was easily 30 degrees at 8.30am! Next stop was the markets but we where the only white people in sight so had a quick look and took the metro to sentral station (where we saw a brass band playing in the middle of the station), we walked to a very nice and elegently decorated temple.We needed more ringgits so we went to change some U.S. dollars but the money in my pocket was all wet from the humidity so the guys at the bank where trying to dry it on the fans and air conditioners and where having a good laugh about it.
After that we caught the tourist bus to see more of the city as it was way too hot to walk around! Although I wouldn't recommend this, as the buses are outdated and the air con is not as good as they claim - despite this we saw the KL tower, the city square where independence from Britian was declared, the original station, the librar-, which looked like a poor man's version of Sydney opera house and the only piece of natural rain forest left in KL (which is tiny).
After some more nice food and a couple of very expensive beers! we headed for an early night as we where up at 3am to catch our flight.
Next stop Vietnam and Hanoi first
love David and Leanne
to see our KL pics please click on the link below;
https://picasaweb.google.com/112941139607408893724/KualaLumpurMalaysia14thTo16thMay2011?authkey=Gv1sRgCK-C-aD2stnGTw#
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