KL

JONO ... I dont think there will be many photos from KL because the insides of shopping malls can be a bit repetative :-)


After arriving in the evening and finding a 'cheap' city hotel at a travel counter, we made our way in on the train. We soon found out that 'cheap' is VERY relative ... for us it was 5x what we had been paying up until now ... needless to say we only stayed one night (after having paid the deposit at the airport). We are now in a place that is on a par with what we have had in Vietnam and Cambodia for only 3x the price. We are in the middle of Chinatown where the streets are turned into markets every night.

Yesterday we did the patirotic NZ thing and found the NZ Embassy so we could vote (look out for Bill and Ben who are bound to take the country by storm!) . Then went in to the Petronas Twin Towers for a look around.

At the bottom is a very cool science museum setup primarily to teach about the oil industy. It has WAY more than that though and I'm sure if we had all day I could have spent longer there. As it was we were there for 2 1/2 hours. A couple of times I thought 'my nephews - especially Luke - would love this place!' I did manage to impress Tracie with my prowess in driving a mini digger (it was teaching about hydrolics work) ... but I'm sure the on looking kids didnt care ... they just wanted to push me off so they could have a turn!

The afternoon/evening consisted of shopping. Shopping obviously doesn't mean you have to buy anything ... otherwise it would be called 'buying' rather than 'shopping'. But after many hours of roaming around we did have a few things to take home with us. Some things are VERY cheap here but other things (like accomodation) are not. If we had some money to spend, it would be dangerous place to come!

We are off to the bird park now to take a look around ... then maybe will look at the IT/geek malls tomorrow.