Kuala Lumpur Day 2

(Saturday, October 14th)

We kicked the day off a little late, but we headed to the Petronas towers in the morning to get our skybridge tickets. There were a lot of people there. We were booked for 1:50. We decided we needed to do things to pass the time:

• Batu Caves
• KL Tower
• Lunch

The caves were located outside of KL, and they were originally the sites of the local hindu temple. There were several indians there, as well as necessities for their community (showers, bathrooms, etc). The shrine exists at the top of several steps, as seen in the pictures, and contained bats and monkeys living in harmony. The critters were quite friendly and very active. The walk up was also somewhat tiring... but it could've been a lot worse.

The monkeys were friendly... but not very smart. For more (and video) check my xanga.

moving on.



KL Tower:
Slightly taller in absolute terms than the petronas due to the fact that it is situated on a hill, KL tower is actually a communication tower. Sadly, due to the burning of the day, all we could really see was haze...

Then.. we went to lunch. back to the petronas.



Petronas Towers
The petronas towers have a skybridge linking them that is available to tourists as a little city skyline diversion. (See the abovemost picture) It does however, lead to some nice pictures of the city.


We went to Petrosains... a muesuem, as well. It reminded me of OMSI. Petronas is Malaysia's national petroleum company. Petrol and nat.gas are ridiculously cheap. A full tank of petrol is ~25 ringetts (about 6 USD) and a full tank of nat gas is about 8 ringetts (2 USD)

We grabbed dinner and enjoyed a cultural show, although we arrived somewhat at the tail end (mistake) And went out at night clubbing in Asian heritage row (cynna, the loft KL, etc.). It was pretty slick. It was completely chinese dominated. The girls were prettier than the ones in Hong Kong.


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