Country No 5 : Malaysia

Kuala Lumpur is truly a wonderful city and a far cry from what we had been used to in all the previous countries we had been to. The shopping malls are one of the first things that strike you as first enter KL and also the fantastic road conditions and public transport systems which are comparable to the UK in terms of standards. Combined with the low costs, reliability, cleanliness and ease of navigating, this really was a breath of fresh air! First stop in KL was to Chinatown where we got ourselves booked into a sweet hotel and lived it up for a night before getting down to business in a smaller Chinese establishment where we based ourselves for the next night. Chinatown is a bustling hub-bub of market stalls, restaurants and shops and has a great atmosphere except for the sometimes unbearable stench in the midday heat when every restaurant is brimming with customers and the smell of the kitchens become quite unbearable! Besides the chaos and fun in Chinatown, we headed towards the city centre and found ourselves (without a map) walking in the general direction of the Petronas Towers which can be virtually seen from any location within the city centre. Once we got there, our every expectation of the towers were fully satisfied. They really are as tall you can imagine, and with a shopping mall on the bottom floors full of every designer label store that you could care to think of, it was great fun spending a good few hours there!

Finally we spent our last night watching the fireworks display, which were coming from a promotion stand in a nearby plaza before hitting the Fun-theque! And no….it wasn’t really all that fun. It should have been called the Amusing-theque because it was certainly different let’s say! Curiosity always kills the cat!

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Priya&Tim on July 23, 2006 from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

from the travel blog: Cheeky Round The World Trip

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