So we moved on from the laid back Indian South via a plane into the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur. What a difference and a welcome one at that after more than a month in India and Nepal. KL is a clean, modern and organised city and luckily we'd booked ourselves into 4* little bit of luxury hotel as a treat. We really appreciated this for a few days to get us back on track. The city is fairly compact and you can more or less walk anywhere you need to, so on the first full day we got up late and walked... a long way. We went up the KL tower, which is a sky tower really, about the 5th highest in the world I think. A great view over the entire city.
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| The view of the Petronas towers |
We then tried to do a walking tour from our guidebook around Chinatown but kept getting a bit lost and did our own thing in the end! Amazing architecture on the way, with a good mixture of colonial, art deco and very modern skyscrapers.
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| Colonial |
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| Art deco |
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| Modern skyscraper |
We went back to Chinatown in the evening, when it comes alive, for food and shopping. There are fantastic food courts and hawker stalls in Malaysia with a huge choice and it's all so clean and tasty. The shopping was great, very cheap and I would recommend it as a definite shopping holiday - just make sure you bring an empty suitcase or alternatively buy yourself a cheap Louis Vuitton one when you are here!
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| Cockles being barbecued |
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| Chinatown Food court |
We also took a trip one day out to the Forest reserve, just outside the city where you can do a walk through the jungle...very tiring uphill, to a canopy walk. It's a 150m long and about 30m above the ground. John wasn't that keen with his vertigo but did it anyway!
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| John overcoming his vertigo! |
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| Me looking nervous! |
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| John of the jungle! |
We spent our time in KL catching up on sleep, relaxing, eating and drinking basically!
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| KL at night |
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