Vistana Hotel - Kuala Lumpur

... with mixed curried dishes. Dinner, a kilometre or so away in the 'Golden Triangle' was more Chinese influenced - Penang noodles, chicken satay and spare ribs in black pepper sauce. After a strenuous afternoon of eating we walked across town to catch our first proper look at the Petronas twin towers - the world's tallest building(s) from 1998-2004. They look spectacular lit up at night and the setting is impressive with a park and lakes ...

... in Malay!) Discovery centre. The oil part wasn't great but there was another section called Muzika which was phenomenal. It was basically a music and sound playroom with loads of interactive stations like mixing decks, air guitar, sound tests, music composition, virtual drums, and global sounds. Awesome. Day 2 featured some more touring by bus and foot and included a trip up the Menara KL, the telecom tower with a great birdseye view over the city. All in all we ...

... view from the balcony overlooking Bukhit Jalil park, in the Kuala Lumpur district about a 30 minutes train ride south of downtown. (Bukhit Jalil Park is a great place to get some exercise, and also observe hundreds of huge catfish and turtles hanging out underneath the bridges waiting for some fish food.) We were put to ease as we immediately discovered that Sree was a very down-to-earth, very easy going ...

... of the film were *bout the towers themselves, which w*s *ll we *ctu*lly c*red *bout. Will *nd I kept cr*cking up *t the primitive 70s-style 3D effects which kept lurching onto the screen in * style most likely designed to m*ke you feel n*useous. Once the film w*s over, we celebr*ted by posing for silly photos of us looking like RUN DMC with our visitor p*ss med*llions *nd m*ssive 3D sh*des. We then took the lift to the Skybridge, *long with * f*r too e*ger bloke who kept t*king ...

... put your feet into a fish tank full of Doctor fish and they come and nibble away all your hard skin. It feels very very very strange, and slightly ticklish. I made Dan do it too and they opened a cut on his foot and made him bleed.
Apart from this we just wandered around china town's market and caught up on some Internet.
Our flight to Cambodia left ...

... teams had all signs of a party gone.

We
did go up the Twin Towers during the day but the view from the bottom
is far better. We went to the cinema to see 'Up' and we dined with a
clown on more than one occasion. All the city comforts we could
manage behind us, we boarded a plane to Bangkok.

Blue Boys Vegetarian restaurant, I am salivating even when I say the name. I arrive in K.L. - Kuala Lumpur (pronounced Koh-al-la Lum-pwoor or according to a few ozzies here, Koala Lum-pa). K.L., you shop, you eat, you shop, you drop. I dig through my newly acquired second hand lonely planet guide for Malaysia which is all battered and worn. "Wow!" a guy says to me on the monorail as I flick casually through my book looking for accommodation, "You must have been traveling ...

... for more than 10 minutes. We asked the taxi driver if we were heading to the right place and he assured us we were. After an hour drive (which felt like twenty minutes after the 25 hours of flying), we arrived at the hostel. Sure enough, it was the very place I had asked to go. It turns out there's more than one airport in K.L. and our hostel was a mile away from the other one. It worked out really well though because we were now in the heart of the ...

... Guest House, just opposite Jerantut bus station, which was nice enough. We stayed in the form for RM10 each, which even had a TV! Tom tried to get it to work before realising it wasn't plugged in. He then realised he needed an adapter to plug it in. After finally retreaving the adapter from the hostel worker, he tried fiddling witht he TV again, but it seemed jammed on the video channel. He went to ask for some assistance from the young Chinese ...

... 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.