Blogs from Kuala Lumpur, Wilayah Persekutuan, Malaysia, Asia - page 13

I woke around 8:00am but Bec was still asleep so I figured I’d get a little more kip in. The next time I woke it was just before 10:00am and Bec was awake. We got up and Bec headed to the gym, I headed to the pool. It was sunny and within minutes I was sweating up a storm. I was by the pool for about an hour before Bec joined me, and we were there maybe an hour longer before we decided to go and get some lunch as we'd skipped breakfast. We wandered down to our newly discovered massive food court on the bottom level of The Pavillion shopping centre where we decided on Subway and a Boost Juice. After lunch we headed back to the pool for a bit longer, it had clouded ... read more

Although they are neighbouring countries, Singapore and Malaysia are very different. Singapore has been greatly modernised, whereas Malaysia still has the Asia feel about it. Kuala Lumpur is undergoing a vast amount of building at the moment. They are apparently extending their metro system by thirty one stations. This will be great when it is finished, but is causing chaos whilst it is ongoing. The cost of living in Malaysia appears to be really cheap. Again, our hotel was in a great location so we had local restaurants nearby. The touristic areas were only a bus ride away. Kuala Lumpur runs a free bus service that runs in four loops. Most of the buses run every 5 – 10 minutes, and all looked to be very busy. But it was clean and the bus drivers were ... read more

Today we are going on our trip to the elephant sanctuary and Batu caves booked through the hotel yesterday. We got picked up from the hotel about 9.30am and find that we are the only ones on this mini bus so have a personal guide for the day. In return for paying for this and our hotel transfer, we have been offered a free trip but alas time is running out. We really like the Malaysians and their relaxed stress free way of life. First stop was to a pewter factory. Not quite sure why we stopped there as it was not on the agenda. After the five minute tour, we were ushered into their shop where they proceeded to try to sell us anything and everything. Maybe that is why we were there – to ... read more

George is feeling a little better this morning, but we have cancelled our planned visit to Batu Caves, as it will probably be too much for him. Instead we are going to use another of the vouchers for the hop on hop off bus and stop at some of the areas we did not stop yesterday. On the way out, we stopped at the hotels tour desk. They do a trip to the elephant Sanctuary that also includes Batu Caves. They want paying in cash and we do not have enough on us for this, so we will see him in the morning. Also starting to look at our journey back to the airport. Asked at the tour desk how much they would charge for the hour long journey. 116 ringgits for both of us – ... read more

Today has been the subject of an immense amount of debate and planning changes with regards to how we would make the journey. Initially we had planned to take the train. We thought it would be nice to see some of Malaysia. Unfortunately, in July this year they changed the route for this, and it now leaves from Malaysia and not Singapore. This makes in impractical for us with the number of bags that we have. Then we thought we could take the bus which is about a ten hour journey. Just prior to when we started our travels, we heard of some people having a nightmare with the various coach companies doing this trip. So we decided that we would fly instead. We found a deal with Air Asia that covered all our baggage, a ... read more