Kuala Lumpur
Trip Start
Sep 11, 2008
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Trip End
Sep 24, 2008
Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia
Friday, September 12, 2008
Flight was quite uneventful, except for the fact that they managed to book us three seats for every two people, so we had quite a bit of space. Didn't really sleep on the plane - it was just too early! We landed at 5:10 in the morning which is 12:00 pm in SA. So the result was that we lost a night.
My roommate Sue and I decided to go into town instead of going to rest. We got a taxi which we shared with two other South Africans, not in our group, and went to see the sights in Kuala Lumpur
City street
. It was interesting and very hot, but we were quite tired and were pleased to get back into the car to go to the hotel. I couldn't keep awake and slept most of the hour drive back. Had lunch - very strange looking food, not for the faint hearted! I then went to sleep, had about three hours of very deep sleep and was woken by Pam, another lady in our group looking for Jill to go for a drink. I decided that was the only thing that would get me going again and got up to join them.When I got down I found only Alex, the tour leader in the lobby, but Sue joined us shortly after and told us of the wonderful massage she got from across the street. As we could not find any of the others in our group and the area around the hotel seemed a bit dicey we decided to go for diner at the hotel, forgetting that everyone was about to break their fast and it seemed that the whole town decided to come to our hotel. We then ventured back into the street for our massage - EINA BLIKSEM!!! It was a very good massage but they changed "Pat you down" to "Punch you down". Poor Sue has discovered at least two bruises! Despite the pain it was excellent and I had a fabulous sleep after a supper of strange looking left overs.
On to Vietnam!
