Quality KL

Kuala Lumpur is amazing.

We drove in, after passing though rainforests and hills and were greeted by a night city scape, illuminated high rise buildings piercing the dark sky. The KL tower, the Petronas twin towers. It was a stunning view!

We had one full day and one day only to fit in this city and get a taste of Malaysia, so we went for some food. The simple conclusion is that Malaysian food is delicious! We even had time to see some Christmas trees, the worlds biggest capsule vending machine and eat a gingerbread man shaped Krispy Kreme doughnut!

So the next day, we went to the twin towers to get tickets to climb it later, then we got the monorail and train out of the city and went to the rainforest. There was meant to be a canopy walk but it was closed on our one day there so we hiked through the forest instead. From up a hill and through the trees, you could still see all the sky scrapers of KL. It really was beautiful!

After this we went back to the city and popped to Chinatown. We lost track of time and literally had to run across town, weaving in and out of traffic, to make it to our timeslot to go up the towers! Just. By the skin of our teeth.

The view, with the sun beginning to set, was stunning! Really beautiful! And after darkness had set in, we could see it with the lights on from close up!

Sean and Cara had upgraded so we went over to their hotel (ours was the size of a matchbox and there was even one of the others from our group sleeping on a mattress on the floor - tiny!) and we went up to the sky bar. The photos do not do this view justice.

The bar was a bit weird... The room had the bar down one side, windows with dancers in it on the other, a DJ booth and mini dance floor at the end and stuck right in the middle, was a whacking great swimming pool. Oh, and they were filming a TV programme called the 'great race'. It basically involves random couples racing across the world and having to do challenges. If they fail, they go home. If they pass, they go through to the next round and the next country! The overall winner gets AU$100,000. There were 2 tasks, a DJ mixing  and a shot pouring challenge. Everyone was rubbish at both. But it was entertaining to watch! What made it even more entertaining was getting in the background of their shots looking thoroughly unimpressed and wearing shorts a and flip flops when the whole of their fake crowd were dolled up wearing amazing outfits!

Busy day! And rather frustratingly, that is the end of our time in Malaysia as it's off to Singapore tomorrow! We will be coming back to this place!