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I like it. Everyone speaks English which is incredibly novel (and highly convenient), though coming from a predominantly non-English speaking society I'm finding myself conscious of what I can say (without disapproval from passersby) in public. But everyone is very friendly and accommodating; and Malaysia's multi-national people are not at all intimidating as I imagined travelling as a lone female at 2am when I arrived at KL airport on Friday might be.
KL is pretty small as far as capital cities go, and certainly being able to walk from one end to the other in the humidity is quite a contrast from the never-ending sprawl of Seoul. But despite its size, the rather convoluted road network rather does make navigation somewhat taxing as Ian and I discovered trying to cross the 500m from KL Station to Chinatown by a criss-cross of overpasses, underpasses, roundabouts and railway lines. We have been lucky to be able to stay with Ian's cousin and his family to get easy rides to places of interest, and of course getting a local's perspective of what we should do/where we should go and charge-free accommodation.
So after a morning's meander through Chinatown (complete with a roti canai breakfast and tour of temples - see photo) yesterday we took Peter's recommended tour of the swish department stores of KL, slowly meandering our way up to the sunset view of the iconic Petronas Towers (photo above). I've certainly been filling my photo quotas. Today - a Malaysian national holiday - we gave Peter and his 8-year-old daughter an excuse to take the car and walk up the 272 steps to the Hindi shrine-laden Batu Caves. The highlight was probably the scampering monkeys - around to keep the tourists interested, around to enjoy the banana-feeding - though playing "I went to the market and I bought..." was also a great way to pass the car journey. Teaching English to non-native children, I get a warped view of the level of language that young children have.
This afternoon we were let loose by ourselves to explore the Lake Gardens and foot our own entrance fees. We wandered the Butterfly Park, making for some challenging photography, before heading on to the Bird Park to walk through the extensive free-flying aviary. We'll head down to Melaka tomorrow before heading onto Singapore for the weekend.
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KL is pretty small as far as capital cities go, and certainly being able to walk from one end to the other in the humidity is quite a contrast from the never-ending sprawl of Seoul. But despite its size, the rather convoluted road network rather does make navigation somewhat taxing as Ian and I discovered trying to cross the 500m from KL Station to Chinatown by a criss-cross of overpasses, underpasses, roundabouts and railway lines. We have been lucky to be able to stay with Ian's cousin and his family to get easy rides to places of interest, and of course getting a local's perspective of what we should do/where we should go and charge-free accommodation.
So after a morning's meander through Chinatown (complete with a roti canai breakfast and tour of temples - see photo) yesterday we took Peter's recommended tour of the swish department stores of KL, slowly meandering our way up to the sunset view of the iconic Petronas Towers (photo above). I've certainly been filling my photo quotas. Today - a Malaysian national holiday - we gave Peter and his 8-year-old daughter an excuse to take the car and walk up the 272 steps to the Hindi shrine-laden Batu Caves. The highlight was probably the scampering monkeys - around to keep the tourists interested, around to enjoy the banana-feeding - though playing "I went to the market and I bought..." was also a great way to pass the car journey. Teaching English to non-native children, I get a warped view of the level of language that young children have.
This afternoon we were let loose by ourselves to explore the Lake Gardens and foot our own entrance fees. We wandered the Butterfly Park, making for some challenging photography, before heading on to the Bird Park to walk through the extensive free-flying aviary. We'll head down to Melaka tomorrow before heading onto Singapore for the weekend.
3 comments:
"trying to cross the 500m from KL Station to Chinatown by a criss-cross of overpasses, underpasses, roundabouts and railway lines."
I remember that...and crossing a 6 lane highway somewhere near the lake gardens :s..fortunately there was very little traffic :D.
Remiss not to mention this - I know you'd rather know - "But despite it's size" erm "it's"?
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