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Travel Blogs from Kuala Lumpur
Chinese Laundry
I'm getting a bit behind with the Whittlog so time to revert from present tense to past.
We took the early morning coach from Pangkor back to K.L. and booked into the Citin hotel. The room was a bit shoddy so we had a bit of a think until Jon spotted a tiny creature on the bedsheets. Thanks to an unfortunate incident with a locum in Portsmouth …
Chinese new year
We arrived back in KL for our last night of fun with the supercooper and hoped that Chinese New Year in Chinatown would be eventful but unfortunately it was a bit of a non starter. Turns out that the Chinese all shut up shop and ran off to the country for reunion dinners with their families. So we staggered down in the humid heat to the Petronas …
Loving KL
... pieces of pipe; the aim is to arrange them together so that a ball could run from top to bottom without falling through gaps or getting wedged. We all really enjoy this and I have to admit, I did think I was on the Krypton Factor. Great fun!
Elliot’s favourite part is a dinosaur exhibition. We are greeted by a huge, growling T-Rex as we enter the room. There is a swamp in the middle of the room with an erupting volcano. We don’t ...
Roaming the Streets of Kuala Lumpur
... at night and not paying for hotels, but at this point I was pretty tired having slept poorly on the bus and at under 20 bucks the price was right. I was out the door by 8 am so not much more than a nap at the hotel. However the room was air conditioned and I was able to recharge my camera and iPod, which had previously been running on critically low power. I also got a refreshing shower out of the deal so it ended up being worth the stop.
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KL....shite
... br>
Back into the centre, it was a dirty hole. Let’s not beat around the bush. The place was stinking, and not stinking like you could maybe appreciate the smell, like when you’re driving through the country and you get a big whiff of manure, no the stinking that insults your nostrils. Kuala Lumpur was not for us, but we thought we’d stick it out. We ...