Dynasty Kuala Lumpur

... Heratys odotti (3.12) aamulla klo 06:30 jonka jalkeen oli bussi metsastattavana (Klo 7:00 lahteva vuoro Butterworthiin). Hostellin alaovesta lahtiessa torrentiaalinen kaatosade tervehti "aamuvirkkua" kulkijaa. No naita tilanteita vartenhan kaikki rinkassa oleva on gladitetty...

"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”

-I-

... poor animals) and then got turned out of the F1 racing simulator room which was closed for no apparent reason also. So much for value for money. At least we got to check out some animals in the snake and spider-gatory. We then walked back towards the Petronas towers, got an incredibly spicy curry that caused much physical pain for me in a street that seemed to consist of many different types of curry houses, watched the movie and caught more or less the last metro home to ...

... everything that surrounds the towers is made for commercial purposes, it´s kind of “come and see the towers but live some of your money here”….

Well, so far this is all, tomorrow I´ll be going to the petronas again but very early in the morning to see if I can get a pass for the skybridge and then I´ll be in my way to the “batu caves” in the north part of KL! I will let you know soon!

Unser erster Stopp in Malaysien fuehrte uns direkt in die Hauptstadt Kuala Lumpur. Obwohl hier von Hindus ueber chinesische Buddhisten und Christen so ziemlich jede Religion vertreten ist wird einem durch die Vielzahl an Kopftuch tragenden Frauen sofort klar, dass man sich in einem hauptsaechlich muslimischen Land befindet. Unsere Wohnung befand sich in der sehr belebten Chinatown. Unsere Stadtrundgang fuehrte uns durch den riesigen Markt in Little India ...

... we ended up running into Sweden who had been shopping most of the day. The noodles took forever to come and if you have ever been to Asia its quite strange because they bring each meal out one at a time... for example, Ireland got her meal and was just about finished by the time Scotland and I got our meals... how weird is that.

We decided to head to the Beatles Karaoke Bar just up the street for some pure entertainment... and ...

... building design.

The last night in town we did some market shopping and then had some more Chinese Food at the open air restaurants of China Town. Like clockwork the little old flashlight salesman was back again. Jay tried to explain the logic in not trying to sell a flashlight to someone who has said no 6 times already. No avail he was back again 10 mins later. Ahh the joys of travel.

... It took longer than I thought to get all that together. Then, I had to go get a phone card and buy credits for my phone to call my mom before it got too late. It was still mother's day in the US and of course I had to call her and say hello. That was confusing to find a place and get that set up, but at least I put enough minutes on it to make the one call. And I could barely understand the lady helping me, telling me how many "ringgits" I needed, the name of the currency here ...

... were driven up the road in a jeep - lazy *******s! We asked their tour guides if we would have enough daylight left to hike back down the way we came, and they suggested we take the road back down instead becuase it was getting late. Of course the road turned out to be about twice as long as the path we had taken. If it wasn't for a random Czech couple picking us up and driving us back to our town in the back of their pick-up, we probably wouldn't have gotten back until 10 ...

... malls and LOTS of fast food restaurants.

We headed to BAKO NATIONAL PARK, on the coast of the Sarawak Province in the Malaysian Borneo. Now, this is what we came to Borneo for... lots of wildlife, great hiking trails, friendly and knowledgeable park rangers, and beautiful sunsets. Ahhh, we saw three different types of monkeys (Silver Leaf, Macaques, and the floppy-nosed Proboscis) as well as a big `ol bearded pig, three different ...

... is a small temple at the back of the cave, up another set of stairs. Shan is a true character. He was very nice and insisted we should have come earlier so he could properly show us around the country. He explained the different festivals and ceremonies that take place in the caves while we walked and generally filled us in on what goes on there.

We walked back down the long flight of stairs and had a coconut each, tasty, kind of thick sweet liquid with a ...