Kuala Lumpur

So next on our trip was Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia’s capital city, and what a city! Just two hours from Melaka by coach and we were there. Our hotel just a walk from the bus terminal was great and the Swiss Garden hotel is a beautiful hotel and again very reasonable.

The first evening we unpacked and checked out the hotel, found the pool and Sue investigated the Spa treatments. We then went for a walk around Bukit Bintang and for the first time it over two weeks it rained which was actually welcoming. It was still warm as hell but it poured rain, we made it to Planet Hollywood for some regular food.

We were really impressed by this area of the city (me more so with the apple store :)) it was the most cosmopolitan city we have been to yet very busy late at night, shops bars and restaurants galore. Most of the shops being the more up market shops like Louis Vuitton, Tiffany (Sue had to be dragged out) and the likes.

The next day we walked around the rest of the city and visited the Petronas Towers, which I have been mispronouncing for the last 5 years. They are some feat of engineering and a great tour, a tip would be to get there early to book a ticket as they are free and tend to book out fairly quickly. 88 floors each unfortunately the tour brings you only to the sky bridge half way up but you still get a pretty good view of the city.

We discovered that Petronas is a large oil company with very obvious world domination plans.

That night there were electrical storms which were unbelievable, it was to be expected in that humidity I suppose but I was still impressed by them. The storms lasted for a few hours and were overhead for most of it, so on the 8th floor of the hotel we had a nice view of everything.

So were on the coach again heading to Langkawi, some pretty nice scenery along the way and it seems to be a very hilly area with the bus struggling up the hills along the way. The coaches are excellent though reclining practically horizontal and they take plenty of breaks for those that need them.

So that’s about it, again I’ll try and get the photos up as soon as I can and will let you know how Langkawi goes.