Round the World ’06-’07

I have been in KL for about 5 days now, and really should leave tomorrow for Singapore. I have pretty much done everything there is to do here. I have visited the KL towers, and the petronas sky bridge, the national museum, the lake gardens, the bird park, the shopping malls and and the Batu caves.

The architecture of some of the sky scrapers is really great as you can tell from the number of photos of the petronas towers I have uploaded! The lake gardens and bird park are really nice too. They have a parrot show at the bird gardens with birds riding bicycles, scooters, and even a bird that could count and do sums!

The batu caves were OK but I wouldn’t go back unless there was a big festival on. Apparently in February there is a big hindu festival where men do a lot of body piercing and drag weights from hoows in their backs! Might be more interesting than just an empty cave with 250 steps to climb to see it! There was great view of KL from the top though.

I have had a great time in KL, and would say that it is a lot more interesting than Bangkok with a lot more to do.

 

After sitting in the sun on the Perhentians for days, I was feeling thoroughly unfit. To remedy this I decided to go for a few days of jungle trekking in the Taman Negara national park, “The oldest rainforest in the world”. Leaving the Perhentians we stayed overnight in Kota Baru, before leaving on the ‘mail train’ at 6am the next day. The train ride was very scenic, very cheap and very uncomfortable! I was one of the lucky ones with a seat!

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