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Hi all!
So I thought we should probably give you a bit more of an update since this is our main and most regular point of contact (besides instagram!).
We arrived at 9am on Thursday morning (14th), and met another couple called Hannah and Jo at our school taxi from the airport. After weaving through the highway traffic at ridiculous speeds, through the middle of the huge palm plantations that stretch from KLIA, up towards Midvalley, where we would be staying for 2 weeks, we checked in at our hotel and slept for a couple of hours before going out to explore.
The first thing we experienced was KL's mall culture which is so prevalent in the city it is unreal. Our hotel is attached to a HUGE mall, which is itself attached by a bridge to a second huge, more designer mall where we could find every shop we could ever need...topshop, dorothy perkins, marks and sparks, cotton on (!) nike, adidas, restaurants, bars, cinemas as well as the more traditional tea shops, feng shui stores and spas. The prices didn't seem to be too much cheaper than in England for the more famous stores, but we soon found out how cheap Malaysia can be!
In the evening, we went out for a snack and some drinks to try and keep ourselves awake and experience some Malaysian open mic which was interesting...drinks were pretty expensive but the food was cheap as chips.
The following day we decided to tackle to KTM which is a really cheap train company (to get into KL Sentral it cost 1MYR = 20p!) and then the monorail which was also really cheap. We arrived in KLCC and as soon as we came out of the underground of the train station, the petronas towers are looming over you. It sounds unimpressive to say but they are absolutely huge! We couldn't stop laughing at the shock of how big and amazing they really were. 88 floors, 452m high with an observation bridge at level 50, the towers have inside them a mall (obviously) an aquarium, a tropical park, a museum, a concert hall and of course the offices of petronas.
After doing our duty as tourists/not quite expats, we took lots of 'hilarious' photos and decided to go and find an authentic street restaurant for our dinner. Inside the 'restaurant', we were faced with class cabinets full of a variety of miscellaneous meat?! I have no idea what half of it was, I just know that I wont be eating the majority of it any time soon. We ordered chicken and noodles and when it came, it was the best £1.30 meal I have ever had and I'd have paid a lot more for it! We wandered up the the skybar in Traders Hotel for a brilliant view of the city and walked the streets down the Bukit Bintang and Bintang Walks as we had heard good things, only to find...you guessed it...another mall! The walk there was fantastic though and the roads were packed full of cars both moving and parked with boots full of fake sunglasses and handbags but noone bothers you so it's fine to walk through and take it all in.
We came home, organised flat viewings for the following day and settled in to not sleep all night as jetlag had finally caught up with us.
I'll update you on our flat search later but it seems to have been successful, so for now...GOODNIGHT/MORNING! We miss you! xx
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Dunks Such a good idea to do this..it helps me not miss you so terribly! Although, now I hate you because I'm so jealous...! Love to you both. Stay happy xx
Sarah haha miss ya face! get your hols booked in, i'll send u our school timetable! x