Crown Princess Hotel Kuala Lumpur

... out the boat but got my bikini bottoms caught on something sticking out the rim of the boat, resulting in me getting a giant wedgie and dangling from the boat by my bikini bottoms! Luckily the captain helped me off... so embarassing...

Of the four nights we were there, there were tropical storms for 3 of them which I found really exciting! It did mean we stuck wherever we were until the rain stopped (luckily we were in a lovely restaurant most of the ...

... tickets were available. It's a combo (Bus + Cable car ride) ticket at MYR 50 for the family of three.

Batu Caves - Hindu Temples inside million year old caves is a must see spot for desis. Trip to KL is incomplete without a visit to Genting and to Batu Caves. Batu caves are closer to Terminal Putra but you need to change 3 buses to get there. Hence we took a taxi (MYR 55 for the trip and 1 hour waiting). The Caves and the temples were worth the money. Exteremly good. KL ...

... to each other. The Chinese kids go to Cantonese speaking schools with each other and live side by side; the Muslim Malays go to Malaysian public schools; and the Indian kids go to Tamil speaking schools and also live next to each other in their own neighborhoods. It's rare to see any mixed families (I actually havn't seen any yet) and it's also rare to see people of different ethnicies to eat together at the same table. I eventually learned from a 22-year ...

KL has a fantastic public transportation system (Monorail, Light Rail, Buses, and Taxis), and still has horrible traffic jams.

Some people had told me that the Petronas Towers were less than impressive, and they were wrong.

Monkeys aren't afraid of people...and surprisingly do not respond to my monkey calls.

... you know it]!! We decided to go to the surf beach/wave swimming pool. I decided to have a competition with myself to see how far into the water I could before falling over; Tom was too embarrassed to join in [Tom: He really did look like a tit... He appeared to be re-enacting Baywatch]. I managed to get pretty far, and I had fun by myself! Then we just decided to relax and play catch with my goggles. During some of the water slides, and then again at this ...

... time in KL years ago and while we were here we took a closer look at Petrona's Towers and ate tons of good Indian and Chinese food. This time around in KL we spent the day loafing around the mall and saw some dumb movie. But we did eat good Indian food again. The Roti Canai with dahl is the best in the world!

I saw a Kenny Roger's Roasters restaurant here!

The next day we flew to Melbourne.

We were loving Malaysia so far! K.L being the capital was full of fun places to visit and stay. also with the chance of haggling with market stall owners in chinatown to get bargains we were so excited! it really is the place that you can get a complete bargain or a complete rip off depending on our skills of haggling. i hope we got bargains.. well we were able to get things down to over half their first asking price.. so i have hope! spent the couple of days there generally sight seeing ...

... of the rest of South East Asia. I figured that the lack of stray cats and dogs is allowing the cockroach (and rat) populations to flourish... I think they often end up as cat/dog food in Thailand and Cambodia. There were often some 'nasties' in the shared bathrooms but luckily we didn't get any in our room although some rooms in our guesthouse ...