Leo Palace Hotel Kuala Lumpur

... i finally managed to read my travel guide and chose to go to that backpacker place in little china. reason is that here are loads of places to stay - in case i cannof find a spare bed in the first hostel. in front of the airport i started to talk to a guy from southafrica and it turned out he was heading in the same backpackers, so we joined each other and took the bus and after some search-struggeling we went by by train to little china. when we arrived there was ...

... An enourmous rollercoaster dominates and you can hear the screams many shops away! It also has a bowling alley (al hates bowling tho so none for us) and 2 cinemas which we couldnt resist popping into and checking out the new disaster flick '2012' which is great but I was a little disturbed about the people they chose to go on the arcs as I feel a lot of them were past their reproductive peak - anyway i digress........,.
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... immigration control wifie had removed my Malaysian departure card – maybe she assumed that all foreigners would be leaving Malaysia but I was pn.ly going back to KL and I would be in trouble when I did come to leave – so that involved running back upstairs, entering the No Entry and trying to explain my predicament. Luckily a very helpful lady flicked through all the cards and found it – phew. After a couple of Panadol from the air steward the headache eased and chatting ...

... couple of nights in the sweet Traders Club Room staring right over the twin towers. Including our free evening bar and snacks we worked it so we could eat and drink inclusive all day. Cracking place. Hence some fairly boring pics for most! I do never tire of seeing the towers though to be honest. Amazing feat.

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... antennas included) and rise 88 stories above a very modern part of KL. We took the airport shuttle bus to Central Station for about $2.50 and then the subway over to the towers for about 75 cents. Now that is my idea of a cheap and efficient way to get into a city. Actually everything in Malaysia is cheap. No, I will say inexpensive...that just sounds so much better, doesn't it? It's off to Borneo again and I am going to look for some more national parks to visit.

... lunch with Tarynn, I haven't done much to blog about. However, I do have some general observations about Malay culture:

1. It is completely acceptable to be bias when offering employment. All signs seeking workers specify either race, age, sex, or all of the above.
2. It is currently the month of Ramadan and therefore, 50% of the inhabitants of the city (all Muslims) do not eat during the day. Therefore, a significant portion of restaurants are offering ...

... this entire experience felt oddly familiar it was also strangely foreign. On the way to KL we saw several housing developments which looked like blocks of the same design of house, repeated street after street (so it was like an Edward Scissorhands type neighbourhood if you can imagine that) and these little communities were utterly deserted.

As we approached KL we could see the twin towers towering over practically everything in the distance. It's a majestic ...

... them mum and dad told us that we were going to Deerland. We fed deer held a baby hedgehog it was so cute and Ben held a snake. When we arrived at the elephant park we fed all the elephants peanuts it was gross though because they got snot on our hands .

... array of dishes. As we walked down the strip, vendors rushed forward to thrust menus in our hands. We stood out like sore thumbs as tourists - Jalan Alor is mostly a locals-only place - but we weren't the only ones being pressed upon to try just about every variety of food you could imagine (and plenty you couldn't). The Jalan Alor vendors don't stop the hard sell simply at sticking ...

... around aimlessly trying to find a way past all of the main roads and motorways. The map we were using wasn't very detailed, which made things very difficult. We walked back and forth for ages, when it turned out the way were had been going the first time was actually correct. We had to walk through the bus station and train station and a Hilton Hotel?! We were getting very hungry by that point, because we hadn't eaten anything that day, so we decided to have a cheeky ...