Little Bee flies through world
history...
^^ my first real Backpacking Trip, all
alone...Me, my backpack and my camera alone through Malaysia and my
first day is not yet over and the Malaysian population, at least some
of the men already grossed me out xD
Well but to that more later.
I left Singapore this morning and well,
this goes to all Bus companies in Europe, that´s how Bus riding
should be for long trips...Huge seats, nice and comfortable and a
quite decent Busdriver.
Never had such a relaxing travel, like
the seat would have been enoug for two people^^
Now the first thing I noticed here was
that they literally have palm forests here...Imagine the blackforest
with only palms...I tell you, nice view^^
This kinda gave me my explorer wish
back, which was lost in the daily life in Singapore, but now
it´s back^^
The next thing were the toilets here.
You learn three things, you have the low standing ones, never forget
your toilet paper and when you flush, make a jump back, otherwise
you´ll get wet feet.
Which you probably are going to get
either way, because instead of toilet paper, there is a water hose,
so guess how the floor looks like-.-
So now first I thought it was nearly
comical to have a old man suddenly making kiss noises in my
direction. Now after several of these incidents, people making stupid
comments, staring and winking at you, no matter how they look like.
Hell ye think I am desperate, some of them I wouldn´t even touch
with gloves. Yuck!!!
Also some were so short that I was
already wondering what was going on in their weird minds...Gross-.-
Well but besides that the people here
are quite nice, if they don´t try riping you off your money.
Remember no matter what your buying,
you always can go lower xD
Well when I arrived here, it was quite
something to find the hostel, without a card and directions, well I
asked myself though, but it took me some time. The hostel really is
quite luxerios, but the showers are so funny^^...I but a picture in
=)
After a short shower I started walking
to the KL Tower. Why do they have to hide everything here xD After I
finally found it and walked up there, I turned around on the
spot...The hell I am paying nearly 15 Euro to go up a tower. No way!
So I walked around a bit, nearly fell in some of the random holes in
the street, got scared of the trains here...soooo old and rusty and
found a nice lovely place, walked though the Central Market and China
Town and am going to have a little drink later on...oh and booked my
busdrive to the Cameron Highlands
Central Market is kinda cute but if you
don´t bargain hard you lose tons of money.
China Town deadly annoyed me. You can´t
just have a look around, as soon as you stop the shop owners run at
you and don´t leave you a second alone. It kinda bothers me, I need
my peace when I go shopping...
I later went to McDonalds, because I
was to tired to search for some food I would like here. I have to
check out the street food, that looked pretty promising. I paid for a
Big´n Tasty Menu just 2,30 Euro...take that Germany :P
It tasted so good, because it was my
first real meal today.
Now a short summery, if you think Rome
is dirty, don´t worry it´s so much worse here. If you ever thought
LA is run down, don´t worry here you just want to get a bucket of
paint and start making the place look nicer. If you think people in
China drive crazy, don´t worry here they are the same, what is even
worse, here are less people. Means in China you passed mostly the
street with a huge crowd so standing in the middle no car can hit
you and also they have to stop, here you cross alone, so you better
run, nobody will stop for you.
But still I think KL has it´s own,
very chaotic charm^^
Hellooooooo well next day, new tour...
I decided to do the 7 wonders tour,
which meant I could see everything I wanted without having to run
alone through KL...
So when I arrived there, there were two
couples and a Singaporean guy, which I thought was kinda funny,
because he was the first real Singaporean I talked two, but I already
stayed there for more than a month...
Our first stop, after being in the
traffic jam was a Buddhist Temple, which I really liked, because it
was beautiful made.
There we all figured our Horoscope
signs out. The others were by the way from Iceland, Canada and I
already forgot which the other country was and Singapore.
Now think about it we were pretty
international :P
After the temple we drove on, now to
little India and had a very short stroll there and from there we went
into the National Mosque.
Wow that building is just plain
beautiful, like I was really struck by it. As a woman we had to but a
purple, traditional robe on and a had to cover our hair too.
Basically we all looked kinda hilarious...
And the guys had to put the purple
robes on too, there shorts were to short.
Later on, this Muslim guy tried to tell
us why the woman body has to be protected from view and so on, which
I thought was kinda funny, especially while he talked he never even
once looked me in the eyes, so I had a blast with just purposly
looking at his face to see if he would give up :P
After that we drove to the Palace, did
you know that they have 9 kings in Malaysia and each one can reign
for 5 years, than they have to change places. Also they have soldiers
standing in front there, like in England. They were not allowed to
move and there were to horses too, they get changed every hour
because that´s the longest time they can stand still. I do
understand that one horse which was biting at every tourist coming to
close to it...I would do the same...
After that we all were literally
starving ohh I forgot the Museum of KL. We went there too and had a
stroll through history and were totally amazed by the little wood
houses and carvings they were making there.
Now we got our first sticker, why? I
have no clue but I thought it was kinda funny...
We than went to the Batu Caves. A
stunning place, if you have more time take the Adventure track
through the dark part, it´s supposed to be great, but we didn’t´t
have the time.
So first we ate some Indian food, very
traditional and it was quite tasty, I am just not so fond of it, I
guess. The toilet than totally grossed me out. I think I just cant
live with the toilets here-.-
So now after we were full of energy
from the food, we started our walk up the steps, which seemed
endless, over 200 and very step and tiny. On the sides were monkeys
watching us and we watching them, they were so cute. Finally at the
temple, which was open for public we were totally stunned, this cave
is huge and so old. I love places that smell old, it´s like you can
smell history...
The temple itself was less stunning and
I liked the Idea just to tear it down and put something more
interesting in there, like a dance place, but pssst I never said I
would support that idea :P
Well than we went to different stores,
like a tin shop, a chocolate shop and a coffee one. Well the tin was
very expensive, the chocolate I can buy in Germany and the coffee was
just instance and every time with milk and already sweetened, don´t
get me wrong but I prefer my coffee black.Ohh and got before entering even more stickers on our shirts.
We than went off at the a huge mall and
now imagine this 9 floors and in this mall they even had a
entertainment park with a huge roller-coaster. We were nearly alone
there, so no standing in lines and it was a blast, the
roller-coaster, with three loops, the hunted house with real actors,
the tons of head over things. And trust me they were really good. But
than we drove one of them and that one got us all really, really
sick, like I never had something like that before and they all were
watching us and seemed to have fun to get us really sick and just
randomly pushed buttons...After that we were knocked out for at least
half an hour....
We than went back to the Hostel...
By the way if you want to go really
shopping with tons of cheap clothes, Malaysia is your place to be. I
didn´t because I didn´t want to carry everything, but amazing
prices. Just don´t expect too much quality, those are no brands...
In the evening we went out to eat, and
I had the first time frog, which tastes quite good by the way^^,
after strolling through the market and ohh well I gues I had a bit to
much to drink, and those who know me, know that I than just talk far
to much, like really far too much...So if anybody from yesterday is
reading this I already apologize xD
But still I remember everything, didn´t
feel bad in the morning so all ok, not too bad :P
I fell into my bed at two after packing
everything and killing some ants and slept like a baby.
