Kuala Lumpur and one day in Singapore

From Phuket we flew directly into Kuala Lumpur and had three days full of sightseeing. We settled ourselves into a nice little place called Paradisio bed and breakfast, right in the centre of everything. All we had to do was walk out of our B&B and we were right in the thick of things, less than 50 metres from the nearest Monorail station Bukit Bintang. Public transport is extremely cheap and efficent in KL so we spent our 3 days zipping around to all corners of the city on the LRT & Monorail ('So then, “mono” means “one”. And ”rail” means “rail”. And that concludes our intensive three-week course').

We saw the Petronas towers, managed to get ourselves 2 free tickets to go up to the skybridge. Sweet! We went up the KL Tower as well, the fourth tallest communications tower in the world. We had some savage views of the city, we were 276m above ground, 100m higher than the skybridge of the Petronas towers.

We also walked around Chinatown, went to Merdeka Square (where Malaysia declared its independance from Great Britain) and spent half a day at the KL bird park, the largest aviary in Asia. Saw some pretty cool birds, even managed a picture with some of them! Our last evening there we made our way back to the Petronas towers, they are even more impressive at night time and we managed to get some class pictures.

After our time here we made a very brief visit to Singapore as my sister and her boyfriend were flying in for one night from Australia before heading onto Bangkok. So, we had a good few drinks and a catch up, exchanging lots of info and many stories on Asia and Australia. And then a few hours after they left for Bangkok we flew into Borneo!

---

Part of trip: SE Asia

---