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Tuesday, December 20th, 2005

Probabily the best part of our KL experiance after the back to back films in the fridge. Cold air con in Malaysian cinemas.

Was the friends we made, ok so they turnned us to drink but we can forgive them for that. We had yet to drink alchol in Malaysia due in part to the point we don’t need booze to have a good time, and part to the point that it ia damn expensive. Among the nights out was a famous sitting on the step experiance. We started in the Regga bar in China town, nice and cheap for a ladies night, the three girls who where with us; Amanda, Wendy and Becky were the only girls in the bar and they drank on the cheap. While travor twisted my arm and I moved from sprite (costing more than the girls alcohl drinks) to sharing a jug of beer. It was expensive to say the least to drink in that bar so we (me and trevor) headed back to the hostel to the roof top bar a cheaper alturnative. Unfortunatley at 01:30 in the morning it was closed, drastic messures were needed and not for the first time in KL we found ourselves buying beer from the 24 hour 7/11. Being that beer is expensive we resorted to Skol, we worlds 3rd largest selling beer. We did look for white lightening, red stripe, even cheap red wine, but couldn’t find anything more brown back and road side tramish. We did end up sitting on the stairs in the hostel drinking the beer, until the girls returned and we went outside and sat on a step in the street oposite the hostel. This was at 02:oo and we must have looked like a complete picture to the few chinese still around eating at the hawker stalls.

still a great evening back on the beer.

Kuala Lumpur

Monday, December 19th, 2005

Kuala Lumpur turned out to be a refreshng change of pace for us weary travellers. After 10 days of treking around the Cameron Highlands and Taman Negara, and the pace at which we had travelled over the past few months and we were tired. Tired of sight seeing, changing hostels, serching for good accomodation, getting on and of buses and trains, were we templed, museum(ed) and now jungelled out.

So having time to spare before we were due in Singapore we made KL our base, for what turned out to be 6 days and the longest we have stayed in one place since we started our trip. We stayed in China town a vibrant collection of hawker stalls, unfortunatally they all sell the same thing. Pirate DVDs, genuine fake Rolex’s, and not so cheap designer copied trainers, with the odd very strange design or colour. Still a good place to stay as the hostel was clean and cheap and there are many chinese resturants open all hours, as well as it being a short walk to all the land marks. By the end of the week we knew KL like the back of our hand, we would have stayed longer we just ran out of things to do.

On our first full day we went to the Petronas Twin Towers, the worlds tallest bulidings. We arrived at the early time of 08:30 to find a queue already doublling back on its self, the towers don’t open untill 09:00. We went up half way to the worlds 2nd highest skybridge on the 41-42 fllors. It links the two towers, unfortunataly yuou can not travel to the top of the towers at the 88th floor. Still for a free view of the city along with the exibition centre it was well worth a visit. The Towers are situated in the KLCC an asortment of shopping malls, cinemas, art gallerys amongest others. We for a nice change (nice change was the buzz word for KL) became mall rats for a day and went around shopping for a few clothes, some how I (Miller) ended up buying some clothes, and Amanda the girl didn’t buy a thing!! Later that day as the sun went down we went up the KL tower, to get a 360 degree veiew of the city at night. As you can only travel half way up the skybridge at the twin towers, you are acctualy higher at the top of the KL tower than you were in the wolrds tallest building. The view from 421 meters high, plus the hill at the bottom that isn’t counted in the hight was excellent.

We also talk a walk around the the Lake gardens and visited the bird park. The park is the largest free-flight avery in the world, (so it says on the sign) with 3,000 birds. I’m unsure if we saw 3,000 birds, many of them are in cages so don’t fly around that much. Still had a good time feeding the ostrages was funny as you hand feed them green leaves, with the emues watching. The emues will take the leaves from you but not eat them, which we found strange the ostriaes love them and reach straight through the cage trying to eat the leaves and your fingers. We also saw a nice show a talent form the parrots as they cycled bycles around and counted up to 10, still higher than some of my mates can count.

In our nice change mood we went to the city ballet, feeling all cultured we popped along and watched an interesting dance routine based on urban living. not a tutu or piroet was in sight but a thoroughly enjoyable experiance was had by all, including becky a friend form the hostel who we roped into joining us.

In the hostel we met some interesting people among them, Wendy and Trevor. Wendy who we have scared off visiting India with are stories for that place, and Trevor the happy snapping brit with his new camera joined us on a visit to the Aquarium. It was an experience and watching a guy in full dive gear and in a santa costume feeding sharks is a sight I will never forget, nor will I forget the size of some of the turtles there just HUGE. Later we went to the IMAX theatre (Asias largest cinema screen) and watched King Kong. A surprise was that myself and Amanda enjoyed the film, we had chosen Narnia over the Gorilla a few days earlier. At Time Square the home of the IMAX is another attraction you don’t see every day an indoor theme park, with a rollercoaster flying around 3 floors of the mall. Needless to say we headed there, jumped on all the rides in quick succession and felt like crap after.

Pictures Malaysia and india

Sunday, December 18th, 2005
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Taman Negara

Wednesday, December 14th, 2005
The Oldest Rain Forest in The World also has the Longest Canopy walk in the world. We took a walk along a dozen rope bridge high up in the tree canopy, unsure of the exact hight lets just say high. great ... [Continue reading this entry]

Cameron Highlands

Saturday, December 10th, 2005
Wales The Cameron Highlands remind me of Wales, or at least the Lake District. Think hill walking in the rain. The place is set up in the highlands (hense the name) and the teperature is a lot cooler than other parts ... [Continue reading this entry]

Penang

Monday, December 5th, 2005
Arrived in Penang George town from Thailand. It was another long drive and a ferry at the end, Penang ia an island in the north west of the country. Penang is a nice city, has an air of Britishness to ... [Continue reading this entry]