KL

We’ve just finished up at our first stop in Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, or KL as it’s often abbreviated. What an absolute revelation Malaysia is!

Malaysia feels like a cross between Singapore and Indonesia. It’s not as clean and modern as Singapore, but it has the culture of Indonesia. The people are incredibly friendly, and it all feels just very chilled and relaxed with plenty of things to do. 

We started our first night in Kuala Lumpur by going to a rooftop bar to see the city from above. It was a great introduction to the city and the country. 

The next day we spent exploring as much of KL as possible, checking out the main sights. This included the Batu Caves, which feature a temple inside a cave. There’s lots of monkeys around here too, who love to steal anything that you are holding. One lady had her bottle of Coke stolen, which a monkey drank then immediately spat out. 

After that we went to the Patronas towers, or the big twin towers, that dominate the skyline. 

KL is well connected by lots of underground tunnels or bridges, most of which have air con. The trouble is these are usually connected to shopping malls, which are incredibly easy to get lost in. This happened too many times on our tours around the city. 

We spent the evening trying lots of local delicacies in the weekly night market which is 2km long in total. It took 2 hours to get from one end to the other, although that was mainly due to stopping to eat every 5 minutes. 

The next day we went to the KL museum, which quite frankly, is the worst museum I’ve ever been to. There’s just text everywhere. I’m more of an interactive exhibits and lots of photos museum kind of guy. However, one exhibit was entertaining, the child birth exhibit. This detailed how a child is created and how one is born. Perhaps this is the way Malaysian children have “the talk”. A shoutout also to the most pointlessly labelled exhibit in a museum ever. 

We had worked up an appetite, so went to Little India for a bite to eat and a walk around Chinatown. 

After lunch, we spent the afternoon at the botanical gardens and at an indoor theme park, which was lots of fun. 

For the final outing in KL, it was back to the towers to watch a rather dazzling light show. 

After a few busy days in the city, we are now on our way to the Cameron Highlands, which I’m told is meant to be very British. You can apparently buy afternoon tea!