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Lisa -loo and Jim-Jam get released into the wild
Jim and I arrived in Kuala Lumpur on 3rd of May, tired and weary after our long, long flight from Heathrow . Watched 3 movies, 3 half hour sitcoms and an hour long special on Tyra Banks (the poor thing is successful, rich AND beautiful, gutted). So only managed to fit in about 30 mins sleep, and despite the excitement of finally being in Malaysia, I pretty much just wanted to lie down and fall into a coma.
We headed straight for Chinatown in the centre of KL to find a place to dump our bags (yes, mum was right and I had too much stuff) and kip for the night.
We succumbed to a tout who wanted to show us his hostel. He was fat, had long long fingernails and smelt a bit funny.I immediately regretted our decision. It was, quite frankly, a hell hole. The fact that we had to breathe in and walk sideways to fit down the corridor did not help, but the guy passed out in a druggy stupor in the reception and the sunken grey mattress were too much, too soon for my culture shock. We got the hell outta there!
Found a much nicer place, with a big twin bedroom and private bathroom. The bed beckoned to me, but Jim forced me to get up and go with him to book our tickets to the Perentian Islands the next day. After all it was only 10:00am Malay time! I was pooped.
Managed to muster up some effort and we headed to the bus station, booked our ticket (30 Ringgits to get to Kuala Besut in the North of Malaysia - a 9 hour journey for jsut under 5pounds!)
Then went to the Petronas towers. I'n not sure if anyone else has noticed, but they are really tall. And shiny.
We had a quick look around and grabbed some Sushi fromt he food court. Despite our tiredness, we both managed to take heed of the sign stating not to 'Pop fingers' into the sushi conveyor. Phew, god knows what might of happened.
By this point i was actually floating above my own body, and needed a nap more than I needed to breathe at that point. We made our way back tot he hostel
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