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Hello everyone :)
We arrived in Kuala Lumpur yesterday and have been doing much sighseeing already,its coolio so far!! We wern't sure at first when we pulled up at our hotel but its lovely and the people are so helpful. We are based pretty much in the centre of china town - its bustling with crowds of people, restaurants and market stalls - its awesome!!
For some reason we managed to get on an earlier flight from Langkawi - it was booked for 13.45 but the woman put us on the 12.30 one - was the quickest time we have ever waited at an airport - love it! When we arrived in KL we got a taxi to where we were staying - dumped our stuff and went to look for somewhere to eat - we chose Nandos - yuuuuuummmmmmy haha and its so cheap! after that we checked out some tours and read up all the leaflets of things to do which we were given by our hotel :)
First off we decided to do the KL hop - on hop - off city tour - this way we can see the whole city at our own pace and chose the places we actually wanted to see (the idea is that you pay a price and you can 'hop-on and hop-off' as many times you want in 24hours - it stops at all the major sights and tourist attractions) we booked this and that is what we have been up to today....
We made sure we got up early so we could make the most of it, one of the bus stops was in the centre of china town so pretty close for us to walk to :) wooo!! Our first stop was the National Palace - in the bus there is a guide speaking in english - hell yeah! ha ha! they take you through the city - its very interesting! We were told when the national palace was built and how many times it has changed hands etc... we hopped off the bus and got photos with the guards :) luckly the bus waited and we made it back before it left! We drove past KL sentral (Train station which has been revamped) and the national museum - we decide to stay on the bus for these. We then came to KL Green Belt where KL's lake garden, orchid/hibiscus garden and butterfly garden are we walked up through the Hibiscus and orchid garden which is beautiful and made our way to KL's Lake garden - which was gayley shut - we were told it was under construction! we headed back to the bus stop and waited a while - it is a nice sunny day so we didnt mind! The bus that headed towards us had an open top roof at the back so we took advantage of the sunshine and picture taking - no tour guide there though :( we drove past the national mosque and merdeka square and many other sights - but we wont bore you with these and we cant remember the names anyway ha ha
The next stop we can remember was the Malaysia Eye (bit like the london eye but smaller) we got some snaps and are still deciding whether to mooch on up it one evening while we are here??!! As we were driving around we managed to get some good snaps of the KL tower and the Petronas Twin Towers which was cool!! After Malaysias Eye we saw the Palace of culture this was a crazy shaped building - pretty cool! and the national art gallery! The stop we chose to get off at was the KL tower - we headed on up to the observatory floor so we could see the whole of KL! - very similar to the Tokyo Tower we visited in Japan there just wasnt much there apart from the viewing floor and the restaurant. Still coolio to see though!
After this we hopped back on the bus and drove around some more - cant remember what it is called but we drove down a really posh area - designer shops, posh hotels and restaurants the lot - wish we were rich ha ha! we also drove through the bar/club area this also looked awesome - the bars all looked wooden and had outside bits if that makes sense to anyone reading ha ha we are not here long but if we have time than we will hopefully hit that area before we leave! After this we were back at our stop in china town, went for some much needed grub and decided to upload our pics and inform you all of our galavantings in KL to date :)
We are off to Batu Caves tomorrow (to climb a 272 step thing to the cave - lovely!! ha ha) so that should be fun :) leave at 9 so another early moring for us!!
Miss you all lots!! mmmmmmwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!! xxxxxxxx
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