Kuala Lumpur, no Koala Bears in sight

We arrived in Kuala Lumpur (KL) on the fanciest bus either of us has ever travelled on. The double decker had seating on the upper level with only three seats per row, with so much foot room and reclining room that the chairs almost fully reclined! Fancy! Woohoo!

We found a reasonably priced hotel behind the large shopping mall we had been dropped off at and explored the area for a little while. Unfortunately when I tried to pull Malaysian Ringgit from the ABM, my account was locked. The task of calling the bank would consume our next two days.

The first evening we walked in the rain to Chinatown to have Indian food. The food was nice and we walked back to our hotel, still in the rain. Next time I ask Chris if we should bring our raincoats with us and he says no...pack it anyway.

The next day we had our best complimentary breakfast yet, Malaysian fritters, sliced apple, mystery spread and toast plus coffee and Tang. We then walked to the Petronas Twin Towers to go up them. Unfortunately they only allow 900 people up a day and tickets sell out before 8am. So hint to anyone going to KL, book online beforehand so you are guaranteed a place. I guess I will have to pretend to be Catherine Zeta-Jones and scale them another time.

From there we walked around KL and had a lovely lunch of Nasi Lemak, the national dish. After spending the entire day trying every pay phone we could find and asked to call the bank collect we had given up. Fortunately I reached them by Skype that evening and straightened everything out. Thank you to my parents for helping me figure out how to reach them, you guys ROCK! Silly bank, not much point in telling them where you are going if they freeze your account anyway.

That evening we ate on a street of restaurants which served up delicacies like bull frog kabobs, and maybe grilled rat, still not sure what that was but we stayed clear of it anyway. It was packed with people and we could tell it was a popular spot.

So many strict rules at our hotel!

Monday morning we had a second wonderful complimentary breakfast but instead of the fritters we were served a lovely noodle dish. We spent sometime booking our hotel near the airport that evening and onwards at our next travel location (Hint: airport was needed). We had lunch at the mall food court by seeing how much we could buy for a set amount, this had been our favourite budget game in Singapore. It worked here too, but we can't go back because Chris might have taken someone's expensive chicken dish by mistake leaving them our cheap veggie one. Oops!

The KLIA Ekpress was a cool way to get to the airport and from there we took a shuttle to our brand new hotel. At first it looked like it would cost us the same price to get there as though we had taken a taxi from the city. When Chris was finally able to call and cancel our reservation for something closer, the guy at the hotel was so upset he sent us a shuttle right away. Weird sort of airport hotel I guess but the rooms were brand new and awesome!

Malaysia is a Muslim country so pants are a must for me. Neither one of us want to offend anyone.

Chel
Xoxo