Kuala Lumpur

The Petronas Twin Towers

The Menara Tower

At night in KL!

We got a plane from Phuket over to Kuala Lumpur and it wasn't long before we were writing the first chapter of 'how to be mugged off in Malaysia, for Dummies'. As we got in to the airport we got on a big coach with a million other people with the promise that we'd be dropped off at our hotel. Not that I want to brand a whole country, but Malaysia is not that far from Thailand and had probably been tipped off that those '2 white girls' were an easy target. After about 2 hours on the bus we noticed that a lot of the hotels looked familiar and it was clear they had no idea where 'Hotel Grand Central' was. Before long we got kicked out right by 'our' hotel, so given that we were only paying about 10quid a night, we were suprised to see that according to the friendly driver we were staying at what looked like the plushed hotel ever. We checked the address with him and he swore blind that that was the right address. So they drive off and we find that we're about 10 minutes away by taxi from our slightly less fancy hotel and we're not amused.


Kuala Lumpur has the highest twin towers in the world, so we checked them out, although couldn't actually go up them because of some ticket fiasco of course. Nevermind, the city also has a tower called the Menara Tower which gives you a guided audio tour up on the top looking over the city. Oh and up there we saw some weird Malaysian pop star, probs an Asian Idol contestant, who was followed by about 50 kids all dressed in white. Clearly his photo shoots have a dress code! Other than that Kuala Lumpur was pretty much just shopping, impressive shopping though, but given our budget we couldn't exactly saunter around louis vuitton flashing the cash!