I’m in Kuala Lumpur. I Arrived here on Thursday from Singapore. If you’re flying Tiger or Air Asia to Kuala Lumpur any time soon, watch out for the airport. The Low Cost Carrier Terminal is in the middle of renovations, and it’s an absolute mess. It took me about two hours to figure out where the bus to the city was (around the corner at a temporary bus stop without any signage) but then I had to fight my way back inside the terminal through the “exit only” doors to get a ticket.
Yeah, it’s Asia.
The place I’m staying at is pretty good. It’s in the guest house ghetto in the Golden Triangle, and it’s close to the monorail. I met a couple of American girls and an Australian guy yesterday morning and we wandered around the city, eventually visiting the top of KL Tower. It was alllllright – great views across the city.
Last night I met up with Kelvin and his girlfriend, and we went out for a while but had a relatively early night. It’s his girlfriend’s friend’s birthday tonight so we’re heading out, and I’m cutting my 4 days at this guesthouse short to stay with them for a while. Apparently it’s not easy to get from the party back here at 4am… yikes.
Today I found my way to the shopping mall beneath the Petronas Towers and bought some clothes – I needed shorts, and a nice shirt. The mall is huge, and full of all the big designer labels, but some cheaper department stores as well.
Check out my photos from Kuala Lumpur here.
Right now I’m sitting under the umbrella outside in the rain, eating 1 ringgit worth of roti and chicken curry from the place next door. Order through the fence!
Kuala Lumpur is interestiing. Not as clean or as pretty or as orderly as Singapore, and the rain lasts longer and is far more intense. It’s more hot and more humid, too. It’s nice, though – after the rain the temperature drops significantly.
I have to hang around here for another few hours before Kelvin comes to pick me up, and there are a bunch of people inside hiding from the rain watching some Harry Potter movie on the enormous plasma TV, so once the curry is gone I think I’ll join them.
Kelvin is taking me to the Batu Caves tomorrow, and then on Sunday I depart Kuala Lumpur for Kuching.
Oh, and for what it’s worth I actually can spell, it’s just that typing on this tiny laptop keyboard can be a little problematic and th weblog software has a unique method of spell checking that is far too much trouble to use…
