Kuala Lumpar

Trip Start Apr 02, 2008
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Monday, March 2, 2009

The flight to Kuala Lumpar from Perth is worth a mention. We flew Air Asia and there was a chat room service on the touch screen in front of every seat. Ailbhe was mad for it, chatting all the other passengers. 31D and 49F were her particular favourites. There was no stopping her, even during turbulance! The bus took an hour and a half to get into Kuala Lumpar from the airport. There was a lightening storm and it was raining so traffic was heavy. Eventually found the Hostel where we were greeted by Andy at reception - from Dublin! Slept like babies that night and didn't get going the next day until about midday. Walked to the square where the flag signifying Malaysias independence was hoisted in the fifties. On to the Central Market which has (like most markets in Kuala Lumpar) a fish spa. Basically you stick your feet into a pool of little fish and they eat the dead skin off your feet.They LOVED Michael's feet..the rest of the customers were void of nibblers after he stuck his clobbers into the water. After about 10 mins a refreshed Grechy was ready to do more walking so we went to the National Museum which was really interesting. Then we went to the planetarium which was closed (they're closed on Monday's Clare), there's also a bird zoo thingie in that area but we decided to skip it and went into Times Square which is a huge shopping complex. Next day we got up at 7am to get tickets (free) to the skybridge of Kuala Lumpars famous Twin Towers (strange, I know but that's what they call them). Tour groups go up every 15 mins and only 800 people can venture up everyday - we managed to get on the 9.30am tour.  That was after we donned ridiculous looking glasses for a '3D movie' (a 7 minute 2D ad) about the towers (about Petronas; the oil company that financed the towers). The word Petronas must have been said about 40 times and shown visually about 39 times. The longest 7 minutes of the day.  Anyway, we got to the skydeck and were told 'ok, you've got 10 minutes to look out...tick tick tick. Ok, thank you for coming, bye bye!  It's the thing to do in KL..really! But something more exciting than the skydeck was due to happen downstairs in the shopping mall about 40 mins later. Michael bought a pair of original Everlast runners for 8 euro. Like a pig in...muck.   
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