Shop to you drop in cosmopolitan Kualu Lumpur

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After spending months on Phi Phi island with 7500 people, followed by a couple of days in Phuket, it was a great to find ourselves back in a big cosmopolitan city. Kuala Lumpur ("KL") has 1.3mil people and has everything you can desire from a big city. The shopping is fantastic (not that we could purchase much, but browsing is also good). KL is a hub for many long haul flights, so why not plan a couple of days shopping on the way through? There are many, many mega malls. One of them is called Times Square with over a 1000 shops and even a fairground with a rollercoaster. On the 10th floor you find one of the largest IMAX screens in the world, so we went to see a movie called the Sharks which is made by Jacques Cousteau's son, but unfortunately it was made for kids (in 3D no less) and it even sucked as a kid's film. We were hoping for something like BBC's Blue Planet, but no luck. We decided to one of the world's largest Aquarium's afterwards which made up for it somewhat. 😊 The aquarium is in the park just south of the Twin Towers, the largest towers in the world with their 452meters. KL has a lot of largest and tallest, but that makes it fun.

Whatever you like to eat you can get it in KL, but it might cost a little. We were staying close to a trendy street were the expats hang out, street might just have been in London or anywhere. As we are currently unemployed and trying to save cash, so we only had a look and went on to the local curry house instead. Check out the garlic bread on the picture, I think they must have put on three whole garlic (not cloves) on the garlic bread. 😊 The only minus for us wine/beer/cocktail lovers is that Malaysia is a “dryish country”, so alcohol is very expensive compared to other countries in South East Asia. We are thinking about it as a experience and consider our next country more carefully 😊

Getting around town was generally easy. Either you can do it the Nina way which means using your feet and discovering the city as you walk and walk.. OR you can do it the Joachim way which is using the cheap and fast subway.

The biggest mall we've been in. They have an IMAX theatre on the 10th floor and their own amusement park.
As the traffic in KL can be very congested it is not recommended to take a taxi as it is likely to get very expensive. The only funny thing is that the lines don't really link together, so transfers are really awkward and to have to walk blocks from one to another. We couldn't figure out how they managed to miss that one. To and from the airport we used buses and minivans that run frequently and are cheap.

We only spent three nights in KL but have a three month visa for Malaysia. We are not sure where we end up staying, but next Sipadan is a must! Sipadan is a small island just outside a small fishing port called Semporna in East Borneo, and it is known as one of the dive sites in the world.

We got new Malaysian phone numbers
Nina: [phone]
Joachim: [phone]
PS: Thai numbers don’t work anymore

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Photos

Petronas Towers
Tall and shiny, aren't they?

Garlic Naan
Good to have Indian Food again. Check out the amount of garlic!

Mall Coaster
The biggest mall we've been in. They have an IMAX theatre on the 10th floor and their own amusement park.