Cintamani Travellers Lodge Kuala Lumpur

... badges for about 10 minutes and then showed them our passports, which was all okay. This had confirmed how dodgy our hotel was...that there were police doing illegal immigrant raids!

After not much sleep, we spent the day looking round Macau, which is an ex-Portuguese colony and so felt a bit like we were on holiday in Europe with all the Portuguese architecture. There were lots of souvenir shops giving out free samples all the time of the famous Macanese sweets ...

In between my travels in China and India I squeezed in a weekend trip to Kuala Lumpur, as I'd never been to Malaysia before. It was a quick trip - I arrived Friday morning from Hong Kong and flew out to Delhi on Sunday night. I stayed in a hostel in the Bukit Bintang area - very central and a super busy shopping area. From the airport there's an express train that takes you right downtown Kuala Lumpur in about ...

... called Sri Ananda Bahwan. We wound up frequenting this place at almost once every day we were in Penang.

In Penang we saw the very impressive Pinang Peranakan Mansion, or as our enthusiastic tour guide kept on repeating "The shack owned by the Chinese-Malay-Godfather-Mafia-Boss-Tyco on." Well, this Malay-Godfather had a lot of money to burn, and which was reflected in the abundance of interesting ...

... KL tower and the Twin Towers. We are planning to go back to the Twin Towers tomorrow and visit the Sky Bridge.
Sorry no photo's today the PC in the Internet cafe has issues with my card reader.....bloody IT.

We are staying in China town and are just about to go and have a meal in the Market. By the way thank you for all our messages and emails, we are enjoying them and glad you are ...

Well, I have typed this entry about 3 times and the computer continues to eat it. So, this will be rather short. I have some wonderful pictures I will post tomorrow when I am less irritated. Made it to KL- the only surprise was a 2 hour layover in Vancouver at 3am. Yeah, that made me unhappy. Went to the Petronas Towers today and took some great pics. Off to chinatown and other shopping tomorrow. Promise there will be pics! 

... not bad.
We then hoped on a tour bus and went to the Patronas Towers.
Unforntunately we couldnt climb them as they were fully booked so we
headed to the Sky tower instead. The view from the top was pretty
amazing. A shame it was foggy though so couldnt see very far out. We
then went into the little reptile park at the bottom and also did a ...

... masser af jord under neglene under spisningen. Efter 2 dage havde vi (Lone) faaet nok af de mange hundreder igler, mygge og det meget fugtige klima. Nu er vi saa taget tilbage til civilisationen (Kuala Lumpur) og skriver denne foerste del af vores rejse. Nu gaar turen til Java i Indonesien og herefter lidt mere jungle paa Borneo:), for Lones skyld.
Haaber i alle har det godt i DK.
Mange hilsener fra det meget luftfugtige og varme Malaysia.
Lone og Martin

... on my SJSU schedule for Fall, as my registration was only a few hours away. After finalizing my schedule, I sent it off to Alex to register for me that afternoon. I wouldn’t have been able to, as it would have converted to 3:20 AM my time.

Today is Saturday, and it has been a heck of a day. In the morning, Mr. Baskar informed me that the center was expecting the children of the King of Malaysia today. The children of THE KING of ...

... The photo looks very funny - he looks so camp). Back at the bottom of the towers there was a room with games, puzzles, activities and facts about the petronas Towers. One involved measuring peoples heights, so Tom and I decided to have the final height showdown. The Machine said that Tom was 4cm taller than me, which even he admitted was wrong (Tom: Did I? Conclusive proof Richard! Technology deems me taller!). Because I am of course taller than him, but ...

... br>What I liked most about KL was that it is a multicultural city with Chinese Buddhist, Indian Hindus, white Christians and Malay Muslims. You can see these influences in the myriad ethnic restaurants and shops in the city.




I spent one night here and then hooked up with a tour to Taman Negara for 3 days...