Our Australian visas expired yesterday, and we have to go back to the UK. Not because we're moving back but for a wedding! Rich's older bro is tying the knot and we're heading back to the UK on 19th August. But, that gives us four weeks in between, so we decide to visit a new continent.
First stop? Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia). Why? Because it was the cheapest flight we could find from Melbourne and it's a great base in SE Asia for a few weeks. KL is really only a stopover for us at this point - we'll be flying up to Hanoi (Vietnam) tomorrow morning, but we do have one day here...
8.00am Rich wakes us up early so we can try to get the tickets for the Petronas Towers sky walk.
8.30am I actually get up (jet-lag).
9.00am We leave for the towers on foot and after 15 min walking we give up and hop in a cab (it's cheap). 6 RM ($2) later we get to towers only to find out all 1600 and something tickets are gone. We should've known, there are loads of tour buses outside. We're told we should be in line at 8am if we want to go tomorrow. Well that's not an option - we won't be here!
9.45am We take a lot of pictures of the outside of the towers.
10.00am We hop in cab to look for Imbi Market, a Lonely Planet recommendation for breakfast. After driving around for 20 mins, we and our cab driver can't find it. We search by foot. Still nothing. The hunger is making us (ok me) angry, so we hop back in a cab to Chinatown.
11.00am Food! Coffee! Coconut Jam! Happy!
11.30am We take the Lonely Planet's guided walk around Chinatown, which frankly looks a lot like most other Chinatowns around the world. There is a walk for Little India which we've just about started when the thunderstorm rolls in and we're forced to take shelter in a Massive (8 story) mall, with a/c!
3.00pm Our tired feet need a rest and Dr Foot has a great solution! We sit down and soak our feet in tanks filled with little fish, who slowly nibble us for half an hour. It's a very ticklish sensation at first, but after a while it starts to feel like your feet
have fallen asleep and you've got mild pins and needles.
7.00pm We tuck into a delicious meal at the food stalls on Jalan Alor in Bukit Bintang, and then head to bed. We've got a very early start tomorrow!
