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Published: April 9th 2006
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How do you love and hate somewhere at the same time?
We arrived in Malaysia again, this time with more open minds about actually trying to enjoy this country that we had disliked so much because of the people. At the airport in Bali we met a guy called Jack, from England, who we ended up befriending and stayed the night with us to share the cost. After arriving at around 8pm, we took the 9RM ($4.50) bus from the new Low Cost Carrier Terminal into KL Sentral. Air Asia have a new terminal that is so bad, it has not enough seats, NO ATM, and planes seem to be delayed for even longer! Stupid Air Asia. Anyway, we caught a taxi to a hostel that some friends recommended, although we decided not to stay there, but we helped a girl who was passed out in front of the hostel with a man, old enough to be her dad all over her trying to take her home. Drink Spiking? I think so. So we put her in a cab and sent her home, poor thing. We found a hostel called Pudu Hostel, where the room was about 2.5m by 3m
Indian Baby
Many Indians in Malaysia in size and the toilets were rotting(recommended in Lonely Planet - don’t ask me how!), but it was cheap (for Malaysia) and we were tired so we stayed. The next day Jack was already gone, which was strange but we figured he didn’t want to wake us, but we checked our bags in case! Hehe, paranoid or what. We started off by trying to find somewhere clean to eat, which was very difficult so we ended up having McDonalds then going to China Town. The shopping was phenomenal. Such a wide range of rip off everything, from Tiffany and Co. to Levis Jeans. We went shopping crazy, and after we couldn’t find anything else we wanted to buy, we caught the bus to Batu Caves which is only 13km out of the city. In the bus a little boy raised his backhand to his mother (they were muslim) and she retreated back into her seat. It was sickening to watch (see there is our hate for the country). Batu Caves are the sacred place for the Hindu's in Malaysia. They consist of three main caves and a number of smaller ones. The caves are made of limestone and 400 meters
long and 100 meter high. Beautiful. We climbed the many stairs to the top (272!) and inside was amazing. It is like a large volcano opening to the sky, with hundreds of monkeys living inside. We were lucky enough to catch a Hindu celebration while we were there.
At night we went to a gay bar called Frangipani Bar, it was dead because it was Sunday, but the bar was stunning. We only had one drink because it is so expensive there, $10 for a bourbon and coke and then walked around the city. We realised how much we started to like it as long as we didn’t see the Malaysians staring at us or the men over powering the women. We stayed another night at the dirty hostel because we thought we were leaving the next day.
Waking up at 6am, getting in a taxi to the bus: $5. Catching the 1 hour bus to the airport: $9. Realising when you get to the airport during check-in that you fly out the next day: Priceless.
How funny, we were so tired, and so annoyed at having to pay more money to get back. This time we
Monkey
One of many cheeky monkeys at Batu Caves found a different hostel called Kamelon Hostel for the same price and it was really nice. Back to the markets we went after a little sleep. Bought more things and had a fantastic day. The next day we went to the airport on the RIGHT DAY.. yay and flew to Bangkok. This is my (Jen) second time to Bangkok and last time I was here I didn’t enjoy it at all. This time I love it, because we are staying in a better part and I have more money so we can go shopping and see more things. We arrived at 12pm and booked into our nice hotel room. Straight after, shopping again in a HUGE shopping centre called MBK. They have everything here, and such a wide variety of clothes etc at the cheapest prices we have seen yet spanning over seven floors! After shopping all day we went to Pat Pong Road. This road is well known for the ping pong shows, strippers and bars. We were excited because we thought we would have a great night like in Patong but it was not as good. We still had a great time but I guess nothing compares. It
Iguana
At the caves was hard to get a drink without someone trying to pull you into their ping pong show with their over priced drinks. Many markets were around this area as well so we spent the night shopping and getting boozed in two bars with dancing girls called Electric Blue and Kings Camelot (similar to Dragon Bar in Patong, but smaller with less attractive girls who couldn’t dance as well). In the middle of the markets we got to pat a baby elephant, which was so cute. We were driven home in a cab by a driver who put up with us being drunk idiots, singing at the top of our lungs, and let me sing into the CB radio, (the thai radio operators had no idea what we were saying - he obviously didn’t value his job too much!) and gave us his number to call him when we needed our own private cab.
So over the next few days all we have been doing in shopping, sleeping, eating and watching our new DVDs. We caught the sky train to this fantastic market called Suan Lan Night Bazaar, which has a stage in the centre with live music and food
Kuala Lumpur
It was so clean and beautiful stalls. These stalls were more focused on home wares so we did not by much. The sky train is great, a fantastic view of the city with really low priced tickets. They are so clean and well organized, never wait more than two or three minutes for a train.
Today we found the best market in the world called Chatuchuk which is only held on the weekends. It had everything you could wish for and it was that big it even had a shuttle bus to take you to each end. The market was separated into sections clothing and accessories, homewares, antiques, pets etc. We stayed around clothing most of the day because if we looked at everything we would have run out of time. It started to rain heavily half way through the day, which was great because it was boiling hot, so we cut the day short and went home and snuggled up and watched some DVDs. We are in Thailand for four more days then we head home
Sadly this will be the last blog on the road.
Love your guts
Jenny and Erin xoxo
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Bex
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Can't wait to see you babe!!